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Post by Dave B on Aug 5, 2024 9:05:07 GMT
Barcelona Live at Duke of York's Mon 21 Oct 2024 - Sat 11 Jan 2025
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Post by parsley1 on Aug 5, 2024 9:07:54 GMT
2 hander at the DOY
From October
Lily Collins
Not a new play and not that well reviewed in the US
Can’t imagine this is going to be an Xmas sellout
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Post by Dave B on Aug 5, 2024 9:12:11 GMT
General sale at noon today. ATG+ presale image below. AA not on sale, no immediately obvious decent cheaper seats
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Post by rumbledoll on Aug 5, 2024 9:15:10 GMT
Oh wow, Álvaro Morte on London stage! Count me in ❤️
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Post by parsley1 on Aug 5, 2024 9:17:42 GMT
Oh wow, Álvaro Morte on London stage! Count me in ❤️ It’s a play not a pop concert People made the same error with Tom Holland And Kirsten Scott Thomas In recent months The actor appears yes But they appear in rubbish |
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Post by rumbledoll on Aug 5, 2024 9:26:20 GMT
Oh wow, Álvaro Morte on London stage! Count me in ❤️ It’s a play not a pop concert People made the same error with Tom Holland And Kirsten Scott Thomas In recent months The actor appears yes But they appear in rubbish I love plays, I’ll be fine 😁 |
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Post by A.Ham on Aug 5, 2024 9:35:17 GMT
What’s it about?
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Post by AddisonMizner on Aug 5, 2024 9:37:18 GMT
I will be booking for Lily Collins. What a beautiful actress! There is something of Audrey Hepburn about her.
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Post by aspieandy on Aug 5, 2024 9:42:18 GMT
If you can wait a bit I have the internet at home. It might be on there.
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Post by Rory on Aug 5, 2024 9:51:11 GMT
It doesn't sound that interesting from a review I've read. Although Lynette Linton is usually an astute director.
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Post by A.Ham on Aug 5, 2024 10:10:04 GMT
If you can wait a bit I have the internet at home. It might be on there.
Haha, very good. I just assumed someone on here might be able to tell me a little more given they’ve referenced it having previously been on Broadway. |
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Post by A.Ham on Aug 5, 2024 10:16:30 GMT
For anyone else who didn’t already know (and doesn’t want to wade through a load of search results about FC Barcelona):
Directed by Lynette Linton (Shifters, Blues for an Alabama Sky, Sweat), the play is set in the Spanish city of Barcelona, where an American woman on a hen weekend plunges recklessly into a one-night stand with a dashing Spaniard.
But during the course of that single, shocking night — by turns funny and dangerous — her romantic fantasy morphs into a complicated game of cat and mouse.
The American character, Irene, is played by Lily Collins, and Spanish character Manuel is played by Álvaro Morte.
Barcelona had its world premiere in 2013 at the People’s Light & Theatre Company in Pennsylvania, US, and its West Coast premiere in 2016 at LA’s Geffen Playhouse, starring Betty Gilpin and Carlos Leal.
Charles McNulty of the Los Angeles Times said of the drama that the “wiley two-character drama by Bess Wohl, never becomes the play you think it’s going to become. The playwright stays one step ahead of theatergoers – not to trick them, but to hold out for deeper truth.”
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Post by AddisonMizner on Aug 5, 2024 10:31:15 GMT
When is press night?
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Post by drmaplewood on Aug 5, 2024 10:36:55 GMT
Assuming it is quite short with a 8pm start time?
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Post by Jon on Aug 5, 2024 10:39:55 GMT
Assuming it is quite short with a 8pm start time? 90 minutes according to some of the reviews of earlier productions. |
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Post by demonbarber on Aug 5, 2024 11:38:11 GMT
General sale at noon today. ATG+ presale image below. AA not on sale, no immediately obvious decent cheaper seats
On front row, as per the press release: “There will be a weekly lottery to secure tickets to Barcelona, with 200 tickets released every week, on Monday (from 14 October), at just £25 (including front row seats)” |
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Post by AddisonMizner on Aug 5, 2024 11:55:32 GMT
Are there seats in the central stalls off sale too? From about row F backwards is showing as sold for practically all performances that I have looked at.
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Post by A.Ham on Aug 5, 2024 12:34:51 GMT
Are there seats in the central stalls off sale too? From about row F backwards is showing as sold for practically all performances that I have looked at. I expect they’re house seats, and the ones ATG will hold back so they can release them later at £300 a seat… |
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Post by AddisonMizner on Aug 5, 2024 12:57:05 GMT
Thank you. If that is the case, it is rather annoying though.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Aug 5, 2024 13:12:41 GMT
Sounds like a huge stretch for Emily in Paris star to have to play an American visiting a European city and falling for a local hottie...
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Post by kit66 on Aug 5, 2024 13:18:10 GMT
What a shame!I thought it was going to be about a meeting between Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé
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Post by princeton on Aug 5, 2024 13:30:46 GMT
Assuming it is quite short with a 8pm start time? The Hollywood Reporter reviewer described the 2016 Geffen Playhouse production as "clocking in at a long 80 minutes" !! |
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Post by Steve on Aug 5, 2024 13:48:51 GMT
Directed by Lynette Linton (Shifters, Blues for an Alabama Sky, Sweat), the play is set in the Spanish city of Barcelona, where an American woman on a hen weekend plunges recklessly into a one-night stand with a dashing Spaniard. But during the course of that single, shocking night — by turns funny and dangerousThanks for the breakdown!
So, "Money Heist" crossed with "Emily in Paris," directed by someone who's done some amazing work.
I'm in lol.
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Post by dr on Aug 5, 2024 14:01:20 GMT
Perhaps not the best perspective on this, but I am glad to see Linton getting some good commercial work. The project itself doesn't sound all that promising - earlier mentions of Lyonesse seem fitting - but I don't think I've ever seen a poor Linton-directed piece, and it will certainly be better off with her touch.
As for Wohl, wasn't Camp Siegfried quite well-liked at the Old Vic? Perhaps this will fare better overall with British audiences.
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Post by Steve on Aug 5, 2024 14:04:07 GMT
Perhaps not the best perspective on this, but I am glad to see Linton getting some good commercial work. The project itself doesn't sound all that promising - earlier mentions of Lyonesse seem fitting - but I don't think I've ever seen a poor Linton-directed piece, and it will certainly be better off with her touch. As for Wohl, wasn't Camp Siegfried quite well-liked at the Old Vic? Perhaps this will fare better overall with British audiences. I loved "Camp Siegfried."
I'll try not to get my hopes up, though, as the above posts do seem to suggest the previous production wasn't unanimously loved.
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