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Post by lynette on Jan 30, 2019 19:24:18 GMT
I’ve never heard the NT referred to as the Royal NT. Just isn’t used. Royal Opera House, yes, Royal National theatre kinda not used, is it?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2019 19:26:57 GMT
I’ve never heard the NT referred to as the Royal NT. Just isn’t used. Royal Opera House, yes, Royal National theatre kinda not used, is it? It used to be used a lot up until the late 90s ish. Particularly referring to it in print as RNT. But no, nobody calls it that anymore. And they deliberately dropped it from their marketing in the Hytner era (if not a bit before).
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Post by Xanderl on Jan 30, 2019 19:28:44 GMT
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Post by TallPaul on Jan 30, 2019 20:16:18 GMT
Back in the day, when the Olivier Awards were broacast by the BBC, Zoe Wanamaker would always announce any National Theatre nominations as Royal National Theatre productions.
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Post by Snciole on Feb 1, 2019 10:54:39 GMT
I once saw a mouse climbing the wall in the Royal Court bar, very brazenly. Also it was a comparatively smooth patch of wall, so it was pretty impressive too. An all mouse production of Assassins Creed?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2019 10:56:33 GMT
*hands Snciole a sizeable Arts Council grant* Make it so.
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Post by MrsCondomine on Feb 4, 2019 16:37:52 GMT
I'm on the sofas outside the Olivier and a little mouse just popped out to say hello #awkward I've never had the good fortune to see a mouse there! I like the little ones you see on the tube tracks, although I always go on to think about how they must be deaf with all the noise and their little lungs are full of soot and for all of their short lives, they will never play in the grass in the fresh air I also don't get the hate for pigeons - they're trying to find something to eat people! Have compassion! There are a few with feet missing in Waterloo and I always feel sorry for them. AND NOW that I've got my feelings about vermin out of the way... I love the NT's open foyer. The only time people shouldn't be welcomed into a public space if if they're causing trouble or danger - that's the ONLY time. There are some really nasty posts in this thread, and I would take them for a joke if I hadn't seen the same people comment similar things in other threads. Bless the NT and its patient, helpful staff for fostering a pleasant atmosphere to sit and have a drink, or to work for a bit, or to meet friends before a show.
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Post by Backdrifter on Feb 4, 2019 16:58:13 GMT
I'm on the sofas outside the Olivier and a little mouse just popped out to say hello #awkward I also don't get the hate for pigeons - they're trying to find something to eat people! Have compassion! There are a few with feet missing in Waterloo and I always feel sorry for them. Have there been pigeon sightings in the NT now? I heard that the missing feet are due to their own excreta causing the appendages to rot away. I like this little 1977 oddity from Genesis, with a rather bizarre lyric.
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Post by MrsCondomine on Feb 4, 2019 17:05:26 GMT
I also don't get the hate for pigeons - they're trying to find something to eat people! Have compassion! There are a few with feet missing in Waterloo and I always feel sorry for them. Have there been pigeon sightings in the NT now? I heard that the missing feet are due to their own excreta causing the appendages to rot away. I like this little 1977 oddity from Genesis, with a rather bizarre lyric. Not yet... they're getting closer though... following their tiny mouse comrade... You're right, oh my God. It's called "bumblefoot," apparently. Which... is an oddly sweet name for something so disgusting.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2019 17:06:37 GMT
I was once in one of the eateries under the South Bank centre and a pigeon wandered in through the door and under a table. In hindsight, yes, I *could* have warned the woman who decided to sit at that table that she'd be disturbing a pigeon, but I don't think *that* far ahead, and it was *pretty* funny when the pigeon emerged.
We domesticated pigeons, you know. The way that pigeons are is entirely our own fault; we saw a smart sociable bird and we taught it to hang around with people and now people get shirty when they go to a city and it's full of pigeons.
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Post by Xanderl on Feb 4, 2019 20:56:48 GMT
Not seen pigeons in there but I did see a couple of ducks getting annoyed that the building is closed on Sundays
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Post by Someone in a tree on Feb 28, 2019 19:32:33 GMT
As my working day ended near the Nash I thought I would pop in to buy the new Company script. Wasn't on the Sondheim shelf with all the Follies merchandise and accedimic books it also wasn't with Sondhdeim's other scripts. I had to ask for it as it was in the warehouse.
The staff are all very nice and polite but when they can't manage a release...
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Post by sf on Mar 1, 2019 3:54:30 GMT
As my working day ended near the Nash I thought I would pop in to buy the new Company script. Wasn't on the Sondheim shelf with all the Follies merchandise and accedimic books it also wasn't with Sondhdeim's other scripts. I had to ask for it as it was in the warehouse. The staff are all very nice and polite but when they can't manage a release... It was on the shelves in the bookshop on Wednesday afternoon. How do I know? I bought one. Oddly, they didn't have it on the souvenir stand in the lobby at the Gielgud on Wednesday night (I saw Follies in the afternoon and Company in the evening).
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Post by Someone in a tree on Mar 1, 2019 6:59:13 GMT
As my working day ended near the Nash I thought I would pop in to buy the new Company script. Wasn't on the Sondheim shelf with all the Follies merchandise and accedimic books it also wasn't with Sondhdeim's other scripts. I had to ask for it as it was in the warehouse. The staff are all very nice and polite but when they can't manage a release... It was on the shelves in the bookshop on Wednesday afternoon. How do I know? I bought one. Oddly, they didn't have it on the souvenir stand in the lobby at the Gielgud on Wednesday night (I saw Follies in the afternoon and Company in the evening). LOL. I wonder at which point the staff releasised they had broke the embargo?
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Post by joem on Mar 1, 2019 8:08:55 GMT
Not seen pigeons in there but I did see a couple of ducks getting annoyed that the building is closed on Sundays Were they queueing for Ibsen?
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Post by Someone in a tree on Mar 31, 2019 15:40:41 GMT
I spotted the mouse on Friday. It was running away from the lyttelton theatre and towards the river. I guess it couldn't take any more of Top Girls
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Post by sf on Mar 31, 2019 17:25:27 GMT
I spotted the mouse on Friday. It was running away from the lyttelton theatre and towards the river. I guess it couldn't take any more of Top Girls
To be fair, Caryl Churchill's work sometimes has that effect on me as well.
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Post by shady23 on Apr 5, 2019 19:38:15 GMT
Thought this thread may be of interest
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2019 21:30:54 GMT
We had soup,coffee and cake before seeing Follies but as The NT is a public space (we saw a lady doing yoga and a man with his bike in the building as well as people on laptops)and as there are no signs saying the cafe is only for theatre-goers,I can’t see why the staff are being so invasive.Surely if you are a paying customer you should have the right to eat at your own speed.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2019 23:53:31 GMT
Coincidentally I stumbled across this policy of ‘making way for ticket holders’ on their website earlier today, and it was brand new info for me as I never I turn up early enough for any of this to apply (aside from that time I got my dates wrong and turned up 24 hours too early).
The amount of seats around the place, why don’t they just corner some off for folk not seeing something? I can’t imagine there’d be that many people around (not seeing something) when the masses arrive to need many seats. Or better yet, open the auditoriums earlier so those who get a seat early enough (and are seeing something) don’t feel a need to keep said seat until 5 minutes before the performances start.
It all just feels a bit pedantic.
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Post by Cardinal Pirelli on Apr 6, 2019 0:31:52 GMT
I’ve even seen people there during the day having tutorials with their students (not about theatre, I think it was economics).
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Post by andrew on Apr 6, 2019 9:40:18 GMT
They could, of course, just turn off the wifi for 90 minutes before each performance... The cafe studier knows the ways of the world TM, and if WiFi goes suddenly mobile hotspots will be activated en masse. Those concrete walls make it a bit slow, but nothing tears a student from a warm place with a desk (apart from food). I've sat there to do a bit of work in the afternoon when not seeing a play on weekdays off, but if I'm a member is that not allowed? Or maybe just the line "I sat through Macbeth. All the way through Macbeth. I've earned this".
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2019 9:50:13 GMT
nothing tears a student from a warm place with a desk (apart from food). Food? No. Alcohol.
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Post by talkingheads on Apr 6, 2019 17:46:07 GMT
I don't see why they've made such an issue. If you're a ticket holder then you're about to be sat down for 2 hours +. Why the need for a seat in the foyer? If you need to eat then get there early enough like any eatery!
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Post by learfan on Apr 6, 2019 17:53:52 GMT
They could, of course, just turn off the wifi for 90 minutes before each performance... I wondered about that.
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Post by shady23 on Apr 6, 2019 18:58:02 GMT
I don't see why they've made such an issue. If you're a ticket holder then you're about to be sat down for 2 hours +. Why the need for a seat in the foyer? If you need to eat then get there early enough like any eatery! When I go to a show I go along and then go to my seat. In very few theatres there are places to sit down outside the auditorium beforehand.
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Post by Dawnstar on Apr 8, 2019 18:05:40 GMT
I don't see why they've made such an issue. If you're a ticket holder then you're about to be sat down for 2 hours +. Why the need for a seat in the foyer? If you need to eat then get there early enough like any eatery!
I arrived an hour early for Follies, having been standing/walking around London for 2 hours since the 4.30pm finish of my matinee. I was very glad to be able to find a seat once I got to the National.
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Post by Someone in a tree on Jul 7, 2019 14:19:01 GMT
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Post by Jon on Jul 7, 2019 14:37:38 GMT
Sounds like they were removed for being disruptive than for being lesbians
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Post by londonpostie on Jul 7, 2019 15:17:03 GMT
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