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Post by theoracle on May 16, 2021 16:24:18 GMT
Paradise (the Philoctetes/Lesley Sharp/Ian Rickson show) is scheduled to (re-)start from October. HURRAH! With/without social distancing? |
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Post by theatrelover123 on May 16, 2021 16:29:17 GMT
Paradise (the Philoctetes/Lesley Sharp/Ian Rickson show) is scheduled to (re-)start from October. HURRAH! With/without social distancing? Dunno. Just know a friend who confirmed its return. |
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Post by Jan on May 16, 2021 19:57:50 GMT
I was interested in this initially. I wonder if top price tickets will still be £89. Post-Covid pricing will be interesting to see, my feeling is they’ll have to be cheaper to rebuild an audience but I might be wrong.
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Post by Rory on May 8, 2024 8:28:06 GMT
I'm wondering why the new shows were all announced piecemeal but still relatively close together in time? First Ballet Shoes, then Earnest and then the last three including Coriolanus.
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Post by dr on May 8, 2024 16:37:44 GMT
My hunch is something to do with PR? Both "Ballet Shoes" and "Earnest" (with its immensely starry cast) are big shows for the NT, so I imagine they will have wanted to give them the best chance in the press, with audiences/followers online etc. rather than being drowned in a big season announcement.
Perhaps they've observed that shows announced as a season are less popular? Anyone have any thoughts?
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Post by showgirl on May 8, 2024 18:12:07 GMT
Suits me if it makes booking easier, as it certainly seemed to for Ballet Shoes. I've often found it annoying, wanting only a single ticket for a single production in a new season, to be forced to join a massive & slow-moving queue, probably full of people wishing to book multiple tickets for multiple shows. I don't ever recall so short and fast-moving a queue as for when public booking opened for Ballet Shoes, which was even more helpful as I was out at the time so having to use my mobile rather than my laptop.
None of the other newly-announced shows appeals in the least to me, so win-win: I don't clog up the queue for others, either, when booking for those productions goes live.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on May 9, 2024 9:41:58 GMT
All previous NT season announcement threads have been merged into this single thread.
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Post by mkb on May 10, 2024 10:30:27 GMT
The National is so wasteful. There is no option on the contact preferences to stop them sending out sizeable A5 packages full of marketing material, and I have never asked for them. But, every season, around a week after I have checked out all of the new plays online to decide which I want to see, through my letter box comes a package. How much of this unsolicited physical material is the National sending out? It must be costing a small fortune. How are they able to be so profligate? And how does this align with any pretence to have enviromental sustainabilty goals?
I have emailed them asking if they can stop, but people shouldn't have to ask. The default should be digital marketing only, unless you opt in to physical.
(I could repeat this complaint for many other venues.)
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Post by jek on May 10, 2024 15:51:31 GMT
I know it is very much each to his own on this but I am always glad to receive the physical copies from the National. I do search out a lot online but I still like a nicely produced pamphlet that I can look at at leisure (just as I also like to buy a physical newspaper - the Financial Times - at the weekend). Simlarly, while I love my Kindle, I also still buy quite a few well designed physical books. I am particularly pleased that the 'What's On' booklet that arrived from the National today has a nicely illustrated piece in it about the artwork by Amelia Lancaster which is currently on display in one of the foyers.
As for environmental concerns I expect there are other areas of the National Theatre which are much more profligate. And, of course, online content isn't 'energy free' either.
I think that calling people/businesses to account on their energy usage is difficult. I, for example, due to family circumstance, haven't been on a plane for 27 years. Nor do I drive. But I have adult children who, obviously, are only here because of me and who, of course, use up the planet's resources.
As for opting in/out it does seem wrong that there isn't an option to do so on the website. I am a priority member and I can't recall every being asked my preferences and, looking on the account section of the National website the only preferences you can set is for which emails you want to receive. It would be interesting to know what sort of marketing research the organisation has done around this issue.
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Post by lynette on May 11, 2024 16:36:42 GMT
I like the pamphlets too because i can compare dates and use them as reminders around my stuff.
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Post by parsley1 on May 11, 2024 20:02:35 GMT
I like the pamphlets too because i can compare dates and use them as reminders around my stuff. The NT brochures sent in the post No long contain a calendar and have not done for ages I am unsure of their point tbh |
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Post by Dave B on Sept 9, 2024 10:32:12 GMT
We are due an NT announcement soon right... (this week?). I wonder if this is from this place or some other sources...
ETA: as embeds seem bust
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Post by Jon on Sept 9, 2024 10:46:29 GMT
Is Spring/Summer 2025, Rufus' last season before Indhu takes over?
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Post by fossil on Sept 9, 2024 11:45:48 GMT
We are due an NT announcement soon right... (this week?). I wonder if this is from this place or some other sources...
ETA: as embeds seem bust
Just to feed the rumours some more I just found on the The National Theatre web site a page for director Joe Mantello which intriguingly says of his work "For the National: Here We Are". The "Here We Are" is a link to a non-existent page. www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/artists/joe-mantello/I suspect the page may be modified soon after I post this! |
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Post by Dave B on Sept 9, 2024 12:13:49 GMT
I suspect the page may be modified soon after I post this! And it's already gone! But yes, good work. I do love finding stuff on websites like that! |
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Post by helenfrombath on Sept 9, 2024 13:47:04 GMT
Ballet Shoes has now officially been extended through the end of February in the Olivier, which closes the gap until Dear England comes back.
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Post by aspieandy on Sept 9, 2024 15:15:03 GMT
Ballet Shoes dovetailing nicely into a work featuring prima donna's
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Post by parsley1 on Sept 9, 2024 21:18:45 GMT
Is Spring/Summer 2025, Rufus' last season before Indhu takes over? Yes and there is a patrons event in 2 weeks So will be last week sept for announcement But please remember Dorfman will be closed Olivier is programmed until May And is also due to close There isn’t much to be announced |
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Post by helenfrombath on Sept 9, 2024 22:15:27 GMT
Is Spring/Summer 2025, Rufus' last season before Indhu takes over? Yes and there is a patrons event in 2 weeks So will be last week sept for announcement But please remember Dorfman will be closed Olivier is programmed until May And is also due to close There isn’t much to be announced Exactly. Here We Are will be going into the Lyttelton in the spring, maybe right after Ernest. And then maybe they'll announce another Lyttelton show? Maybe an "off site" show? That will be about it. I've heard rumors that Motive and the Cue is having trouble finding it's way to Broadway. Maybe they'll put that somewhere? |
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Post by Rory on Sept 9, 2024 22:18:29 GMT
Surely they can bring back "Till the Stars Come Down"? Just finished Sherwood. I bloody love Lorraine Ashbourne.
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Post by awjc on Sept 10, 2024 6:56:39 GMT
Is Spring/Summer 2025, Rufus' last season before Indhu takes over? Yes and there is a patrons event in 2 weeks So will be last week sept for announcement But please remember Dorfman will be closed Olivier is programmed until May And is also due to close There isn’t much to be announced Is the Olivier closing too?! A few people have mentioned an Arcadia revival but that could be part of Indhu’s season. |
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Post by aspieandy on Sept 10, 2024 8:54:53 GMT
There will be a staggered closing of all three. Also, the public areas are being *refreshed* (those stair carpets have been threadbare for years).
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Post by oxfordsimon on Sept 10, 2024 9:21:26 GMT
There is no reason why the National Theatre has just to programme for that one building.
If there is a lack of capacity due to renovation, then they should be doing shows in other venues all round the country.
In fact, they should regularly be staging work in all parts of the country.
Become truly National not just focused on London. Not an occasional tour. Regular seasons that take in the regions.
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Post by SilverFox on Sept 10, 2024 10:19:18 GMT
There is no reason why the National Theatre has just to programme for that one building. If there is a lack of capacity due to renovation, then they should be doing shows in other venues all round the country. In fact, they should regularly be staging work in all parts of the country. Become truly National not just focused on London. Not an occasional tour. Regular seasons that take in the regions. Agree 100%.
The NT used to tour much more - now they seem to think that the live transmissions tick the box. Forcing ENO to relocate is a mistake, but all the major funded companies - ROH / ENO / NT / RSC should have a requirement within their funding to present work outside London (or Stratford). The stage at Manchester Palace was specifically rebuilt to accommodate the ROH - it was used just once for a season. The RSC used to have a successful residency at several Newcastle upon Tyne venues. The Olivier productions could - with very little work - be designed to also be staged at the Leeds Playhouse, Sheffield Crucible or Chichester Festival to name but three, the Lyttleton and Dorfman have an even wider range of possible partners. Co-productions would benefit both the regional venue and London audiences (Standing at the Sky's Edge an example of a successful transfer on three open stages Sheffield, NT and WE). Touring is expensive, and London is possibly the only area large enough to sustain the 'big' subsidised companies year round, but that should be a reason for them not to additionally be seen in the regions.
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Post by Jon on Sept 10, 2024 10:28:36 GMT
I suspect the chances of the National or ROH abandoning their London home and becoming more regional instead are zero.
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