Mischief Movie Night - Arts / Tour / The Other Palace

Edit (board won't allow me to actually edit): my mother's agreed to come & occupy the other seat, after I pointed out that she's the only person on the planet currently allowed to do so!

TallPaul I know your comment is tongue-in-cheek but that is pretty much what I actually feel like.

And that, for me, perfectly sums out how, from such small beginnings, Mischief has become so successful.

Their style isn't really my cup of tea, but it seems to me, as an outsider, that once you become a member of my tongue-in-cheek club, your loyalty is reciprocated.

Thank you. After some dithering about traveling solo to another county on a school night I have booked. Now trying to decide if I book a hotel and make a midweek-weekend out of it!

For the shows at the Open Air Theatre Regent’s Park, the website says 70 minutes (no interval)

Thank you (and Sophie92). I’ll stand down the hotel search! As long as I can comfortably make the 9pm, I hate watching my watch during a show. 

After prolonged dithering (as in over a month), en route to London for the first time in five and a half months for the Regent's Park MMN. The afternoon performance will be my 200th Mischief show. At the start of the year I knew I was approaching my 200th & hoped I'd be able to do something special for it. I think it's safe to say that this is not a scenario I'd envisaged back then!

Attended the 6pm performance, my first ever Mischief Movie Night.

One of the better single seats and the audience members mostly kept their masks on.

The play produced started off without making any sense, then made less and less sense as it went on, but it was rather fun. Mischief said it was their first ever coming of age drama (although they also said this was their first performance in months, when it wasn't even their first performance that day, so I take all of that with a pinch of salt).

We got a fun piece about a 20 year old English female artist in Venice, living with her 102 year old Italian guardian, painting pictures of her mother who had been pushed to her death into a canal many years earlier.

This worked very well in the outside environment (and it didn't rain), but you did rather feel there were constant interruptions from the director every time things were getting going. Some songs too.

I couldn't do more than one of these in one day, but I would certainly go again in the future.

I can, easily! And not just when theatre-deprived. When they did the run at the Arts Theatre, Dec 17-Jan 18, I managed to see 5 shows in 2 days at one point! At the start of the 9pm show Jonathan Sayer asked how many people had been to the 2 previous shows & I was surprised that it didn't sound like that many people had. I had expected lots of people to go to all three.

I had wondered beforehand if the cast would rotate one person per show, like they did in the 2018 tour, but that wasn't the case. The 3 performances had the same cast except that Ellie Morris wasn't in the 3pm one so Bryony Corrigan was the only female cast member - no surprise that she played the heroine! There is usually a gender imbalance, given the company has more male members, but not usually to that extent.

Of the 3 shows today, I think I liked the 6pm one best.

Congratulations on reaching such an incredible milestone, Dawnstar. 🎂 May I ask what, where and when visit number 1 was?