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Post by n1david on Apr 26, 2019 14:58:53 GMT
Any day seat experiences? Hubby is sick (which means SPARE FRONT ROW SEAT TONIGHT if anyone's interested for £25 before I return it) and he'd like to try to dayseat one morning, any reports on how early to get there?
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Post by n1david on Apr 26, 2019 15:24:13 GMT
Thanks Monkey, did have a look at your site, but as I'm not a regular dayseater I was looking in the wrong place. Got it now and will know where to look in future!
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Post by callum on Apr 26, 2019 16:07:23 GMT
Should ‘turn off your phone’ announcements now be mandatory before every theatre performance? A lot of audiences just can’t manage it!
And to think it’s often my younger generation that get blamed for being phone-obsessed... trust me, from the sounds of the ringtones I’ve heard recently, it ain’t the young people that can’t switch off!
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Post by juicy_but_terribly_drab on Apr 26, 2019 16:27:37 GMT
Saw this on Wednesday and though Maggie Smith was incredible but agreeing on the annoying audience but for me it wasn't phones it was electric watches! A man next to me was checking his every five or ten minutes once we were past the halfway point and clearly he must have thought since it was a tiny screen he was getting away with it but just because it is small doesn't mean it doesn't give off light equivalent to the surface of the sun!
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Post by happytobehere on Apr 26, 2019 21:25:58 GMT
Was lucky enough to be in the audience for tonight’s performance, basically just want to echo everyone else’s thoughts RE: Dame Maggie Smith, it was a privilege to even breathe the same air as her. She’s a one-of-a-kind talent.
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Post by joem on Apr 26, 2019 23:29:51 GMT
The only drama in this piece is what Maggie squeezes out of it, a teeny bit lazy of the playwright not to have worked the woman's story into an oppositional piece to see how parts of it crumble.
But a bravura performance from one of the finest actors to have graced our stage. Worth every penny. If it's the last time we see her on stage (I hope not) thank you ma'am.
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Post by vdcni on Apr 30, 2019 11:35:15 GMT
Yes I doubt I have much new to add to the thread. Like most so far I thought Maggie Smith was sensational and really lifted some fairly ordinary material to the heights. Without her or someone at her level - Dench or Atkins - I doubt it would be even close to being this captivating.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2019 13:51:51 GMT
I will say, I don't think she *was* struggling with her lines. The character was very clearly a rambler, and audiences are always falling for Polonius's "what was I saying?" in Hamlet and talking about how great it was that the actor stayed in character while admitting his memory failure and got back on track so well, even though he's just doing what Shakespeare wrote. I bet Maggie was fine, and anyone who's seeing this twice who remembers a particular seeming-flub from their first visit will see the same seeming-flub on their return trip.
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Post by NeilVHughes on Apr 30, 2019 14:22:02 GMT
Had a prime seat BB34, second row, directly in line with Maggie’s chair and at times it was if she was talking directly to me.
Agree with @baemax , the lapses in memory appeared deliberate as they were so relaxed that they could only be in character and being in such a privileged location could savour every mannerism, nuanced expression and vocal inflection.
From the opening confession I was extremely bright, the I didn’t really understand what was going on narrative and the focus on Jewish acquaintances implies a deeper truth.
The atrocities carried out in the world are facilitated by the ones who do nothing.
One woman, 900 people in the palm of her hand, the silence was deafening as we hung onto her every word, no bad behaviour to report only a few coughs to be expected of an audience that large.
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Post by n1david on Apr 30, 2019 15:04:53 GMT
The original documentary film, featuring the interviews with Frau Pomsel, will be shown on BBC4 on Monday May 13 at 10pm.
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Post by Polly1 on May 1, 2019 13:09:54 GMT
The original documentary film, featuring the interviews with Frau Pomsel, will be shown on BBC4 on Monday May 13 at 10pm. Thanks, having seen the play last night, this will certainly be an interesting watch. Perhaps hearing the lines from the woman herself might give us more clues to her mindset. Not that DMS was less than magnificent, of course. I think your response to this might depend on your emotional connection to the war, specifically if like me you had parents who were involved. I found the play very interesting, although it took a while to get engrossed due to horrendous coughing! Dreadful. No phones though, which surprised me as the Bridge sent my ticket to my phone on the day, meaning I had to keep it on until I got into the auditorium and no reminder to switch off, so it doesn't surprise me that there has been problems. Actually the audience was pretty awful and probably the least diverse I've been in for a while. I hope its position doesn't make it just a corporate night out from the City, it is so lovely down by the river and Tower. |
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Post by andrew on May 1, 2019 15:14:30 GMT
This seems to be attracting a fairly awful standard of patron, when I was there a week or so ago there were numerous alarms and ringtones going off, a heavy nose-breather to my right, and the most heinous thing of all, someone in the stalls tried to take a photograph and forgot to turn the flash off, so we got a brief addition to the lighting plot for a few seconds.
We talk about this all the time but truly I believe that phones will never be solved in an auditorium. People will always demand to have in their pocket, people will always forget or demand that they be left on during a performance, people will always not give a fig about lighting up in their row when they get a bit bored mid-play.
Dame Maggie was rapturous, I'm intrigued about where the line between her accidentally stumbling/forgetting lines and deliberately stumbling/forgetting lines lies. Really glad to have gone.
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Post by Fleance on May 1, 2019 17:08:23 GMT
The original documentary film, featuring the interviews with Frau Pomsel, will be shown on BBC4 on Monday May 13 at 10pm. I found the play very interesting, although it took a while to get engrossed due to horrendous coughing! Dreadful. No phones though, which surprised me as the Bridge sent my ticket to my phone on the day, meaning I had to keep it on until I got into the auditorium and no reminder to switch off, so it doesn't surprise me that there has been problems. Actually the audience was pretty awful and probably the least diverse I've been in for a while. I hope its position doesn't make it just a corporate night out from the City, it is so lovely down by the river and Tower. The coughing was a problem last night, although it did seem to quiet down after a bit. Amazing performance. I liked the subtle sound cues as well. |
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Post by peggs on May 1, 2019 21:10:55 GMT
Pre performance a very persistent usher stopping people taking photos of the set, it's copyright apparently. She was very polite but very firm and I asked since we had exchanged your busy tonight type conversation, if I could rely on her being as hot on any phones going off. She said it was a real problem and in general the problem of phone or watch phones not only irritating the audience but very visible to actors and causing issues for lighting cues etc. It was quiet fortunately tonight and an older lady ask me if I could check her phone was off as it was new and she wasn't sure how it worked. I'm choosing to believe she asked me as I looked youngish.
DMS just great, it's subtle but captivating. Never thought I'd see her on stage, very glad I have.
They sold out of programmes so we're giving out their email address to mail and apparently they'll ring you up to take payment and post, bit of an oversight there, they had to know people would buy them.
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Post by Fleance on May 1, 2019 21:15:03 GMT
They sold out of programmes so we're giving out their email address to mail and apparently they'll ring you up to take payment and post, bit of an oversight there, they had to know people would buy them. I was surprised to see that the programme does not have even the tiniest photo of DMS. But it does have some interesting articles. |
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Post by lynette on May 1, 2019 21:19:52 GMT
Me there too tonight. All I can say is Wow! A masterclass. Very interesting material which I was vaguely aware of but given life by this tremendous actress. The Olivier Award right there and every other accolade they can chuck at her.
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Post by peggs on May 1, 2019 21:46:57 GMT
I missed you lynette? Damn. Imagine meeting Lynette and seeing DMS in the same evening. |
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Post by lynette on May 1, 2019 21:51:11 GMT
I missed you lynette ? Damn. Imagine meeting Lynette and seeing DMS in the same evening. I was the woman stuffing a big hankie into her mouth three quarters through to stop a cough. In row D 21. Sorry to miss you. |
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Post by peggs on May 1, 2019 22:07:14 GMT
I missed you lynette ? Damn. Imagine meeting Lynette and seeing DMS in the same evening. I was the woman stuffing a big hankie into her mouth three quarters through to stop a cough. In row D 21. Sorry to miss you. I was row a and Latecomer bb so that means I must have heard you cough! I do appreciate your cough control, most considerate. |
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Post by jamb0r on May 2, 2019 12:40:37 GMT
The Olivier Award right there and every other accolade they can chuck at her. I don't think Bridge Theatre productions are eligible as they aren't a SOLT member (someone please correct me if I am wrong!) |
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Post by Rory on May 2, 2019 15:22:17 GMT
The Olivier Award right there and every other accolade they can chuck at her. I don't think Bridge Theatre productions are eligible as they aren't a SOLT member (someone please correct me if I am wrong!) I think you're right on both counts but then again I thought that about the Arts theatre also and it received nominations for Six. |
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Post by popcultureboy on May 4, 2019 6:59:16 GMT
I think you're right on both counts but then again I thought that about the Arts theatre also and it received nominations for Six. If the venue isn't a member of SOLT, they can still pay SOLT for a production to be considered if they think it warrants it. The Young Vic did it with their revival of A Doll's House a few years back. I can't imagine The Bridge not sorting eligibility for this, though I also can't imagine that next Saturday will be the last we'll see of it. |
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Post by Rory on May 4, 2019 7:34:02 GMT
Interesting. I didn't know they could do that.
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Post by lonlad on May 4, 2019 10:45:52 GMT
Dialogue? What dialogue?? :-)
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Post by theglenbucklaird on May 5, 2019 8:18:21 GMT
What a brilliant actress. So glad we got the chance to watch again on the London stage. Standing ovation last night was thoroughly deserved. What a performance
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