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Post by n1david on May 17, 2024 9:05:31 GMT
Great that these are getting a proper run - I loved the first one but my journey through the rest was ruined by Covid, so nice to be able to approach the series with a fresh eye. I know some of the later plays got more mixed reviews so maybe they've had a chance to tweak some aspects given the passing of time.
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Post by thedrowsychaperone on May 17, 2024 9:11:04 GMT
I couldn't quite make it out on the press release, is it all 3 plays in one evening or are they playing in rep? I assume they were relatively short one (or two) person plays originally?
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Post by Dave B on May 17, 2024 9:19:23 GMT
I couldn't quite make it out on the press release, is it all 3 plays in one evening or are they playing in rep? I assume they were relatively short one (or two) person plays originally? I wasn't clear on this either but Twitter seems clear they are playing in rep. There weren't that short by the time they hit the NT, three in an evening would be a challenge.
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Post by nash16 on May 17, 2024 9:25:35 GMT
Odd summer programming. You can hear the papering already.
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Post by n1david on May 17, 2024 9:41:01 GMT
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Post by alessia on May 17, 2024 10:38:27 GMT
I loved the first two, though the Delroy one I had to watch online (and then the third one was cancelled on the evening I went!)... So definitely going to this, not sure if I will manage seeing all of them in one go though.
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Post by Jon on May 17, 2024 10:47:28 GMT
If @sohoplace is able to recreate the original staging, it would be great.
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Post by Being Alive on May 17, 2024 11:19:28 GMT
Odd summer programming. You can hear the papering already. My thoughts exactly. |
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Post by mkb on May 17, 2024 11:21:14 GMT
Great that these are getting a proper run - I loved the first one but my journey through the rest was ruined by Covid, so nice to be able to approach the series with a fresh eye. ... Same here: after the first, all my bookings were cancelled. I hope they can do some Saturdays or Sundays with a three-play marathon. |
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Post by NeilVHughes on May 17, 2024 11:29:08 GMT
A three play marathon day is my wish, hope they take the opportunity to do so.
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Post by mkb on May 17, 2024 11:31:48 GMT
Great that these are getting a proper run - I loved the first one but my journey through the rest was ruined by Covid, so nice to be able to approach the series with a fresh eye. ... Same here: after the first, all my bookings were cancelled. I hope they can do some Saturdays or Sundays with a three-play marathon. Update: the six Saturdays from 24 August to 28 September are three-plays days, with shows at 13:00, 16:30 and 20:00. Seats for every performance: £79.50, £69.50, £49.50, £39.50, £20.00 Discounts for multi-show bookings are only on the top two price bands, which come down to: Two shows: £59.50, £54.50 Three shows: £56.00, £49.50 The pricing seems too high to me for what should be quite cheap shows to stage. I don't understand why those buying multiple shows in the bottom three price bands shouldn't also be offered a discount; it's especially silly for the £49.50 band that is then the same price as a three-show multi-discount. Be careful with @sohoplace's "virtual preview" feature. It's clear that for many seats, the photograph has been taken from a completely different seat. Some in the corner, for example, have shots from the centre of the row. Also be careful with the £39.50 seats in the Stalls; they don't seem to have any rake over the row in front, which presumably is whey they are discounted. (If you do a virtual preview from the centre of the front row of the First Balcony (e.g. First Balcony A58), you can clearly see the six seats, three on the left and three on the right, of the back row of the Stalls that have no rake. It seems odd that they didn't put high seats here, as they have done for the sixth row of the Stalls at the far ends.) |
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Post by alessia on May 17, 2024 12:01:48 GMT
I wish they had a special offer if you buy all three. It works out very expensive otherwise, this theatre isn't cheap. Anyone knows what the £20 tickets/views are like?
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Post by Jon on May 17, 2024 12:04:10 GMT
I wouldn't surprise if a discounted three show ticket is offered nearer the time. You'd be able to get snacks and dinner between shows
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Post by Dave B on May 17, 2024 12:05:03 GMT
I wish they had a special offer if you buy all three. It works out very expensive otherwise, this theatre isn't cheap. Anyone knows what the £20 tickets/views are like? They do!
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Post by alessia on May 17, 2024 12:06:48 GMT
I wish they had a special offer if you buy all three. It works out very expensive otherwise, this theatre isn't cheap. Anyone knows what the £20 tickets/views are like? They do!
Thank you, I didn't see this!!! |
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Post by alessia on May 17, 2024 12:10:19 GMT
Mind you still expensive lol
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Post by alessia on May 17, 2024 12:13:08 GMT
Same here: after the first, all my bookings were cancelled. I hope they can do some Saturdays or Sundays with a three-play marathon. Update: the six Saturdays from 24 August to 28 September are three-plays days, with shows at 13:00, 16:30 and 20:00. Seats for every performance: £79.50, £69.50, £49.50, £39.50, £20.00 Discounts for multi-show bookings are only on the top two price bands, which come down to: Two shows: £59.50, £54.50 Three shows: £56.00, £49.50 The pricing seems too high to me for what should be quite cheap shows to stage. I don't understand why those buying multiple shows in the bottom three price bands shouldn't also be offered a discount; it's especially silly for the £49.50 band that is then the same price as a three-show multi-discount. YEs I agree..very pricey even with the discount...I think I will take my chances and wait for a better offer closer to the time. |
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Post by mkb on May 17, 2024 12:37:13 GMT
YEs I agree..very pricey even with the discount...I think I will take my chances and wait for a better offer closer to the time. That was my initial thought, but... - I want to do a three-play marathon, and I can imagine those dates will be especially popular even if the other dates don't sell well; - While I baulked at the idea of paying £168 for the full day, it's less than the cost of some tickets for a single show these days; - On a normal two-show trip to the West End on a Saturday, I would probably pay that much for just two shows; - If I book now, I can lock in the best seats rather than having to take my pick from whatever is left. But, on the other hand (and sounding a bit like Topol in Fiddler on the Roof here)... - I am waiting on Premier League football fixtures to be announced in June, and there are some games I won't miss; - I'll feel a fool if there is heavy discounting. Choices, choices. I see that @sohoplace -- what a silly name that is! -- offer exchanges to a different performance up to 48 hours before a show (but only via email for some odd reason), so that might deal with one of my concerns. |
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Post by zahidf on May 17, 2024 12:56:45 GMT
I do want to go, but i feel it will be papered/discounted like most of the shows there. Also will have day seats at worse
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Post by alessia on May 17, 2024 13:15:58 GMT
YEs I agree..very pricey even with the discount...I think I will take my chances and wait for a better offer closer to the time. That was my initial thought, but... - I want to do a three-play marathon, and I can imagine those dates will be especially popular even if the other dates don't sell well; - While I baulked at the idea of paying £168 for the full day, it's less than the cost of some tickets for a single show these days; - On a normal two-show trip to the West End on a Saturday, I would probably pay that much for just two shows; - If I book now, I can lock in the best seats rather than having to take my pick from whatever is left. But, on the other hand (and sounding a bit like Topol in Fiddler on the Roof here)... - I am waiting on Premier League football fixtures to be announced in June, and there are some games I won't miss; - I'll feel a fool if there is heavy discounting. Choices, choices. I see that @sohoplace -- what a silly name that is! -- offer exchanges to a different performance up to 48 hours before a show (but only via email for some odd reason), so that might deal with one of my concerns. ahah I hear you! I spent 100 in the past for a single ticket...sometimes it was worth it, other times not so much. At least in this case I already know what it is. |
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Post by imstillhere on May 24, 2024 12:59:12 GMT
Man I just want @sohoplace to have a hit and this won't be a hit.
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Post by n1david on Aug 24, 2024 23:41:12 GMT
Did the first three-show day today.
Definitely a case of diminishing returns. Was concerned at rewatching Michael (aka the OG) without Rafe Spall but Thomas Coombes was very good, maybe a bit more rounded and a bit less angry than Spall but a great performance. Having said that the script updates worked well providing some sharper insights on contemporary politics and I thought this was another great performance of a decent play.
Delroy is definitely a terrific performance of a not very good play. Compared to the complexity of Michael it's a much more straightforward plot, really not enough to sustain the 100-minute running time, but Paapa Essiedu does a bravura show, outperforming the material, more audience interaction (although no direct audience participation unless one counts Elvis the driver). So it's very enjoyable thanks to that central performance, but the play itself has nothing of the complexity and layering of the original.
Closing Time is a bit more complex as it's a two-hander and the cynic in me says that the playwrights put two female characters in this because they thought they needed two female voices to equalise the two male voices, but they stuck them in one play in a rather unlikely situation to allow them to interact. Which they do to some extent, but there is a lot of "ok now it's time to talk to them about what happened" which makes explicit and clunky the more subtle breaking of the fourth wall in the earlier two plays. The pedant in me struggled with some of the details in this, the inconsistenciies with the first two plays (although OH points out that the first two are performed from those characters' POV so could be unreliable); the lack of understanding about Bryan Ferry's solo career compared to that of Roxy Music; but more significantly topical jokes about Kamala and Gail's Bakery, which puts the main action as today, which means the scenes at the King's Coronation are a long time previous. Having said all that there are another two great performances in here if you can get past what they are actually asked to say.
The first play still feels reasonably tight; Delroy could lose 15 minutes; I can't imagine what Closing Time was like at its original NT duration of 2h30 with an interval - it felt baggy at 1h50.
All in all an interesting day at the theatre but I don't think any of these are classics and the amount of papering shows that they're not connecting with an audience. My first time at sohoplace and loved the auditorium whilst hating almost everything else about it (£11 for the cheapest 250ml glass of white wine?!)
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