Mark Gatiss in The Madness of George III - Nottingham

I imagine it depends on the availability of both the cast and theatre. The only theatre that's available from February is the Vaudeville or if they're willing to wait until April, the Gielgud. 

Trafalgar 1 is too small, I forgot the Playhouse was available in early April. 

It was wonderful. I was in Stalls B13. Could see every expression so clearly

Phew, that's a relief! I must have more confidence in my own recommendations. 🙂

It’s been ok here in Southend - not keen on the subtitles they have switched on but given the average age of the audience members I suppose it’s necessary.

Sound and vision all fine at my local venue and I thought this was great. Usually get annoyed with direction on transmissions but this was excellent. Clever set, fantastic lighting, great performances, Gatiss of course but always been a fan of Scarborough. V worthwhile.

Saw it at Fact in Liverpool and really enjoyed it. It's the first time I've been to an NT live and I'll defo do it again (though it's pricey here - £22 plus £1.50 booking fee, which is what has put me off before). Do people clap or not? Me and the woman next to me did (hello if you're reading this!) but no-one else did.

Certain cinemas seem to struggle with live transmissions - West India Quay Cineworld was particularly bad - and they always blame the satellite broadcast. I swear it’s down to the staff not knowing how to work the tech!

I worked in a Cineworld and believe me, since the abolition of trained projectionists, the amount of technical issues was up tenfold. As each film is a digital file, if it doesn't work by pressing play, the manager was pretty much buggered!

They had them on accidently at the last one I went to, someone got them switched off at the interval after a lot staring at the screen by the staff to establish that they were in fact on.

Saw it this afternoon.

Superb performances from Mark Gatiss and Adrian Scarborough. Strong production, good set, fine supporting cast.

As for the experience of visiting the Nottingham Playhouse, considered separately from the work, I think it has to go down as the most unpleasant experience I've had in a theatre in several years. The un-highlight: in a corner in the cafe (and this is inappropriate on a level that is off the charts, as far as I'm concerned) were two (extremely cute) puppies in a very small cage. I won't say they were in distress, but the conditions in which they were being kept were significantly less than ideal. They'd got a plastic dish that had obviously originally contained water, but - being puppies - they'd upended it, and one of them was chewing the plastic dish, and the enclosure was far too small. These were very small dogs, but they were being kept in what looked like a large hamster cage.

The woman behind me in the queue asked the young lady behind the counter if the dogs were OK. For this, we were all rewarded with what amounted to a temper tantrum from this young lady, and from the gentleman on the till. Yes the dogs were fine, they'd made careful arrangements for them (not nearly careful enough from what I could see). Much theatrical flaring of nostrils. During this I'm trying to order/pay for their set lunch meal deal, a process which was entirely unencumbered on the Playhouse's side by words like 'please' and 'thank-you' and which began with the gentleman on the till attempting to overcharge me by about £5, went downhill from there, and ended with me not getting one of the items I'd paid for, or any cutlery with which to eat the quiche and the chickpea salad that were unceremoniously slammed down on the end of the counter by Ms. Pre-Pubescent Temper Tantrum, Owner of Dogs. Trying to eat a chickpea salad without any cutlery is a very special experience. I could have made a fuss about not receiving the third item I'd paid for as part of this lunch deal, but at that point I just wanted to get the hell out of there.

And to add insult to injury, the quiche had a soggy bottom.

So, two things.
1. These people have no manners. And I mean NO manners at all. I've put in my time in customer service positions including in a couple of theatres. I know dealing with customers can be awful, I know people can be arseholes, I bend over backwards to be polite, I could (and possibly should) have made a fuss on the spot about the awful customer service and I didn't. It would have been a waste of time, because these people have no manners.
2. If you choose to become responsible for domestic animals - ANY domestic animals - it is incumbent on you to make suitable arrangements to keep them safe and comfortable during your working hours. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES do "suitable arrangments" involve shoving two small dogs in a hamster cage and plonking them down on the floor in the corner of the cafe where you work.

I did have a conversation with the restaurant manager after the performance. He was, to his credit, horrified and apologetic - but this is the way these people feel entitled to behave while under his supervision. I'm sure I'll go back to the Playhouse, because the production was very good indeed. I won't be setting foot in their restaurant again.