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Post by dip on Mar 28, 2024 16:22:03 GMT
Criteria has changed for the £25 tix it seems. Both ticket holders need to fit the criteria (previously your +1 could be anyone if you weren't going based on age), and Key Workers now defined as those eligible for a Blue Light Card (no mention of teachers/shop workers anymore). I guess you have to police it somehow, or bloggers would be turning up claiming they were offering an invaluable service to culture |
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Post by asps2017 on Mar 28, 2024 17:50:11 GMT
Freema seems too much a big name for the nurse role?
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Post by alicechallice on Mar 28, 2024 18:06:21 GMT
Freema seems too much a big name for the nurse role? If this were 2009, I'd agree with you. |
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Post by theatrefan62 on Mar 28, 2024 18:08:22 GMT
Freema seems too much a big name for the nurse role? I don't see why, I wouldn't say she's had a particularly big career after Dr Who. Worked consistently here and the US yes, but nothing that's made her a big name to the masses. Plus this is quite a prestigious production that could end up on broadway. |
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Post by mrbarnaby on Mar 28, 2024 20:04:24 GMT
Freema seems too much a big name for the nurse role? She has done absolutely nothing of note in years. She’s lucky to get the work. |
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Post by Being Alive on Mar 28, 2024 20:06:38 GMT
To her credit, Freema was in New Amsterdam on American TV which can sign you up for 7 years at the off (I think she did 4 and then it ended) - she was good in it.
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Post by princeton on Mar 28, 2024 23:15:37 GMT
She's also worked with Jamie Lloyd previously. He directed her in Apologia at the Trafalgar Studios in 2017.
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Post by ilovewemusicals on Mar 29, 2024 0:00:33 GMT
Freema seems too much a big name for the nurse role? According to Wikipedia: “The nurse has the third largest number of lines in the original play; only the eponymous characters have more lines.” |
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Post by iwanttix on Mar 29, 2024 11:42:18 GMT
Criteria has changed for the £25 tix it seems. Both ticket holders need to fit the criteria (previously your +1 could be anyone if you weren't going based on age), and Key Workers now defined as those eligible for a Blue Light Card (no mention of teachers/shop workers anymore). Bloody pissed off about that. I got through the queue quickly and could have bought tickets (I bought some for someone else) but decided to wait for key worker tickets. Except now I'm not allowed to buy them. What a piss take for those of us who were deemed essential during the pandemic and this was our one thank you. I won't be seeing Romeo and Juliet then. |
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Post by kate8 on Mar 29, 2024 17:19:08 GMT
Freema seems too much a big name for the nurse role? Might say the same for Michael Balogun as the Friar, after Lehman and The Effect, but it’s a high profile production and a short run. Edit: just realised as I hit ‘post’ that The Effect was Essiedu, but still Balogun has been in some big roles |
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Post by Jon on Mar 29, 2024 18:04:34 GMT
I saw Freema in God of Carnage and she was pretty good in it.
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Post by c4ndyc4ne on Mar 31, 2024 17:50:34 GMT
Freema seems too much a big name for the nurse role? Might say the same for Michael Balogun as the Friar, after Lehman and The Effect, but it’s a high profile production and a short run. Edit: just realised as I hit ‘post’ that The Effect was Essiedu, but still Balogun has been in some big roles I think with the right editing/ direction you can foreground the friar and the nurse - as Rebecca Frecknall did with the Almeida production recently. |
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Post by peopleplaces on Apr 1, 2024 10:01:42 GMT
I’ve been hearing the same thing from people about this … drones.
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Post by critchyboy on Apr 3, 2024 15:01:58 GMT
Had an email from LoveTheatre saying more seats have been released to them… front centre of the Dress Circle… £275.00!!!
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Post by andrew on Apr 3, 2024 15:25:07 GMT
I’ve been hearing the same thing from people about this … drones. Hearing lots of very credible rumours he's strapping cameras onto the back of rats and releasing them into the audience. "A plague on both your houses" rings out as live images from atop a sea of rodents are projected onto screens everywhere capturing the audiences own feet getting brushed past and nibbled. Seriously though in what way? Drones in the theatre would be too noisy, one imagines. Maybe Tom has a soliloquy on the roof with a drone flying around him? To be fair if you'd said to me a year ago Jamie Lloyd was going to have an actor singing live wandering around the Strand in time to the music I'd have said that seems a bit of a stretch. |
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Post by aspieandy on Apr 3, 2024 15:58:17 GMT
Has to be the balcony scene, surely.
Maybe he checks out the grounds and house with the drone and then surprises her with it on the balcony ..
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Post by peopleplaces on Apr 3, 2024 22:12:49 GMT
You’re not far off with that one! People have been looking at roof access at the theatre.
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Post by A.Ham on Apr 4, 2024 7:21:58 GMT
You’re not far off with that one! People have been looking at roof access at the theatre. Well if anyone can scramble up there and down into the auditorium / onto the stage it’s Spider-Man… |
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Post by aspieandy on Apr 4, 2024 10:25:12 GMT
You’re not far off with that one! People have been looking at roof access at the theatre. I'm guessing the issue is can they get a drone in/out - and maybe fly above St Martin's Lane - in a way that satisfies Westminster council. |
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Post by cavocado on Apr 4, 2024 10:42:22 GMT
Maybe the school chairs will be on the roof this time and we'll just get to watch it all filmed by drones on a big screen? At least it's in the summer so the bare feet won't be too uncomfortable for the actors up there, if only it's stopped raining by then
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Post by bigredapple on Apr 4, 2024 12:21:09 GMT
*starts looking for rooftop restaurants/bars nearby that might have a view of the DOY roof*
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Post by aspieandy on Apr 4, 2024 13:11:36 GMT
Fwiw, I'm starting to wonder what came first; the choice of play or the drone idea ..
I suppose you could easily start Hamlet with a drone. What else?
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Post by youngoffender on Apr 4, 2024 15:44:59 GMT
Breathtaking rudeness on Twitter/X about Francesca's casting. I hope she is shielding herself from it.
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Post by nash16 on Apr 4, 2024 23:14:20 GMT
Breathtaking rudeness on Twitter/X about Francesca's casting. I hope she is shielding herself from it. It baffles me that audiences wouldn’t be expecting an actress of colour to star opposite him. The rules of casting changed about 5 years ago, and it’s now, thankfully, the norm. Where have they been? |
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Apr 5, 2024 8:46:55 GMT
As it's coming from Elon's version of Twitter, sorry to say, I'm not surprised. Most of the people moaning are bottom feeders living in the dark ages.
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