Quiz - CFT / Noël Coward / CFT & Tour

I also see that they seem to have released seats in the stage level boxes for the next week or so at £20. I've no idea what the view would be like, but much of the action takes place stage centre and front. However, if I chose a box seat I would sit on the one stage left (or right when facing the stage) as there is some coughing action towards the rear stage right. I hope that all makes sense!!

I listened, quite by accident. JV said he went last night, so perhaps he'll make an appearance in the 'famous people' thread. Just on the those 30 minutes, and nothing else, I've now reached my own verdict, and I am unanimous in that!

Yes, do. It's well worth a listen.

Same here. As it currently stands only 6 tickets have sold in the balcony, around 10 in the grand circle and a small handful in the royal for the performance I've booked

How important do you think previous knowledge of the events would be? I vaguely remember this happening but I can’t remember the outcome. Should I read up, or go in hazy?

Yes, I think the play assumes most of the audience will just have a vague memory of the case but perhaps not remember the outcome (which is the position I was in) - it works well in this context as you don't know where it's going till the verdict is revealed! I found it interesting to read up on the events after the show.

Out of interest, do they use the same pub quiz questions every night? If so, it seems an obvious opportunity for some unscrupulous person to win themselves a free ice cream!

Cheating, at a play about alleged cheating. Ironic!

I went this afternoon ( Thanks Today's Tix!) and I think it's a bit of a mess. Not awful by any means I just think that Mr Graham wants to say tooooo much. So much of the plays construction feels haphazard and pointless. He's usually adept at making the political personal and the personal political but this time I don't think he succeeds. Still flawed James Graham is better than a lot of other stuff around and for 20 quid it was worth it.

This is a really enjoyable play and a sound choice if you like quiz shows and popular culture. I also have a clear memory of the original case, but it was interesting talking to people around me that others did not.

Quite busy last night. Three levels of the theatre were open and looked busy (just the balcony closed).

I can also recommend the stage seating for the close-up view. You also get to see bits of the performance invisible to the main auditorium unless the cameras are rolling, such as the actors performing while waiting at the back of the stage in Contestant's Row. A joyful set of performances, even if the game show host impersonations are a bit off (and the person who won The Price Is Right pricing game was allowed to bid over the retail price).

The results yesterday evening were 80% guilty as of the first vote (lower than the usual figures shown later on the screen) and 49% guilty at the end.

Someone sitting a row back on the on-stage seating came in on his own, made some jokes to everyone around about how we'd all be participating in the show, said "you don't know who I am, yet, do you?", then took his seat. I was expecting him to be involved in the show, but he wasn't and I never did find out what his involvement with the show was. Anyone else worked this out on a previous visit?

The downside of sitting on stage is the theatre has a list of TheatreBoard members. They then single board members out to take part in the game shows. Thankfully, I'm old enough to remember Take Your Pick, or I wouldn't have had a clue what I was meant to do or what was going on when "Des O'Connor" descended towards me (the woman next to me confessed during the interval she had no idea what was happening and was glad she wasn't selected).

[it may also just be that there's an assigned seat and the person sitting there takes part, which would make sense based on where the host and cameras are positioned]

It's not a typical West End show, but it is well-produced, not stretched out to four hours like so many plays, and it is worth a visit.

As some of the answers are mentioned later on in the play (which I thought quite clever) I imagine they do. Given the subject matter of the play, it's ironic that it would indeed be easy to 'cheat' your way to a prize! At Chichester I didn't believe for one moment that they'd sifted through everyone's answer sheet, I thought they just picked someone at random!

I thought he played it like Larry Grayson myself. Not that that's a bad thing of course.