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Post by zahidf on Jul 21, 2020 19:47:38 GMT
I've got tickets for Beverly knight. I'll let you know my experiences..
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2020 19:51:29 GMT
I've got tickets for Beverly knight. I'll let you know my experiences.. Brilliant - cant wait to hear! |
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Post by Dawnstar on Jul 21, 2020 20:05:11 GMT
Having watched that & read the other info on the website there are a few things which would concern me if I were to attend: The at-seat service presumably means that people sitting on the aisle will have ushers delivering food & drink potentially squeezing past them to get to people sitting futher in. It looks like the hand sanitiser dispensers have to be touched to get the sanitiser. Why not have touch-free ones? The much-vaunted fogging is optional.
With the hand sanitiser, isn't that like every soap dispender? You might have to touch the dirty dispenser the microsecond before you rub sanitizer into your hands? I agree about the at seat delivery, I wouldn't use it but I would be concerned about ushers squeezing past, unless they are keeping every other row free? You can get hand sanitiser dispensers that dispense it automatically when you wave your hand under the nozzle. I've been on cruises where the ships have them at the entrances to the dining areas. I can't belive they're that expensive, given we go with a fairly budget cruise company!
I wonder how the compulsory hand sanitising thing works with glove wearing? Do you take off the gloves, apply hand sanitiser & replace gloves or do you apply the sanitiser to the gloves? Before anyone says it's July, I wear gloves out & about year-round (nothing to do with coronavirus, I've been doing it for years due to OCD), & if this pilot is for autumn re-opening then there will be more glove wearers come then.
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Post by zahidf on Jul 22, 2020 6:31:28 GMT
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Post by zahidf on Jul 22, 2020 7:52:51 GMT
Yuck
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2020 8:41:24 GMT
With the hand sanitiser, isn't that like every soap dispender? You might have to touch the dirty dispenser the microsecond before you rub sanitizer into your hands? I agree about the at seat delivery, I wouldn't use it but I would be concerned about ushers squeezing past, unless they are keeping every other row free? You can get hand sanitiser dispensers that dispense it automatically when you wave your hand under the nozzle. I've been on cruises where the ships have them at the entrances to the dining areas. I can't belive they're that expensive, given we go with a fairly budget cruise company!
I wonder how the compulsory hand sanitising thing works with glove wearing? Do you take off the gloves, apply hand sanitiser & replace gloves or do you apply the sanitiser to the gloves? Before anyone says it's July, I wear gloves out & about year-round (nothing to do with coronavirus, I've been doing it for years due to OCD), & if this pilot is for autumn re-opening then there will be more glove wearers come then.
Isn't the point of hand sanitiser to stop us all spreading the virus onto surfaces for other people to pick up as well as getting it from surfaces and onto ourselves? If so, won't gloves actually stop that - if you can't cleanse them, do you risk spreading it? If we are all wearing masks and distancing, etc, I hope they'll also take a sensible risk assessed approach to gloves and potentially prevent their use inside the theatre. Wearing gloves may make people feel better but outside specific situations there is no actual benefit to the wearer and potentially some small risk to other people. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2020 9:00:58 GMT
£100 for a table of up to four people, regardless of how many people you have on it. Looks like social distancing is not going to be kind to the solo theatregoer... |
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Post by basdfg on Jul 22, 2020 9:40:37 GMT
A summary of the situation in Germany.
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Post by princeton on Jul 22, 2020 9:42:22 GMT
So for the second time this week there's been stories on twitter about performances being cancelled before the cast and crew of the affected show has been told. Each of those shows have different producers - but something in common. Let's hope Judy Cramer and team are contacting their cast/crew at this moment - as I'd hazard a guess that will be the next announcement.
In understand there is some disquiet amongst theatre owners and producers that one of the most powerful hasn't been acting in a particularly collegiate manner since the start of the pandemic (issuing their own statement when a collective approach and announcement was being developed etc) and the 'news' this week may be a further example of this.
[This was responding to a story about The Book of Mormon which seems to now have been removed]
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Post by Dawnstar on Jul 22, 2020 10:25:22 GMT
Isn't the point of hand sanitiser to stop us all spreading the virus onto surfaces for other people to pick up as well as getting it from surfaces and onto ourselves? If so, won't gloves actually stop that - if you can't cleanse them, do you risk spreading it? If we are all wearing masks and distancing, etc, I hope they'll also take a sensible risk assessed approach to gloves and potentially prevent their use inside the theatre. Wearing gloves may make people feel better but outside specific situations there is no actual benefit to the wearer and potentially some small risk to other people. I may have to wear plastic gloves over my cotton gloves then, so I can sanitise those. |
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Post by zahidf on Jul 22, 2020 13:57:43 GMT
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Post by Jon on Jul 22, 2020 14:49:34 GMT
The practice of cast finding out about closure and cancellations without being told first isn't a new thing. The cast of the most recent Oliver! revival at Drury Lane found out it was closing from posters on the Tube.
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Post by djp on Jul 22, 2020 15:32:07 GMT
You can get hand sanitiser dispensers that dispense it automatically when you wave your hand under the nozzle. I've been on cruises where the ships have them at the entrances to the dining areas. I can't belive they're that expensive, given we go with a fairly budget cruise company!
I wonder how the compulsory hand sanitising thing works with glove wearing? Do you take off the gloves, apply hand sanitiser & replace gloves or do you apply the sanitiser to the gloves? Before anyone says it's July, I wear gloves out & about year-round (nothing to do with coronavirus, I've been doing it for years due to OCD), & if this pilot is for autumn re-opening then there will be more glove wearers come then.
Isn't the point of hand sanitiser to stop us all spreading the virus onto surfaces for other people to pick up as well as getting it from surfaces and onto ourselves? If so, won't gloves actually stop that - if you can't cleanse them, do you risk spreading it? If we are all wearing masks and distancing, etc, I hope they'll also take a sensible risk assessed approach to gloves and potentially prevent their use inside the theatre. Wearing gloves may make people feel better but outside specific situations there is no actual benefit to the wearer and potentially some small risk to other people. You wear the gloves to protect you from the restaurant knife, escalator rail, cash dispenser/credit card buttons, and toilet handle. But you have to remember not to touch the bits of your face thats not covered by a mask. The sanitiser comes in to clean the outside of the glove which by now may be laden with nasties and has to be waterproof to be sanitised, That just leaves the risk of airborne transmission from the people, musical instruments , actors, and toilet . |
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Post by djp on Jul 22, 2020 15:38:35 GMT
£100 for a table of up to four people, regardless of how many people you have on it. Looks like social distancing is not going to be kind to the solo theatregoer... Indeed looking at the seating layout the BBC showed for the Mousetrap the seats were in blocks of 2 or 4. Which either means odd numbers of theatregoers in a group lose the producers potential customers , or the theatergoers end up paying for extra unwanted seats or disappointed.
And if you have limited numbers of seats, you are surely not going to want to lose even more money by selling them at the precovid cheap rates- you may even try for more on the more remote seats?
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Post by djp on Jul 22, 2020 15:56:48 GMT
Oh thank you. Fascinating! They've reduced seating to around 30% of the usual capacity by the looks of it. The audience guide is impressive and very clear. How is social distancing maintained in the venue?
There are one-way systems around the theatre and installed signage to indicate appropriate distancing. We have reduced our audience capacity to 671 seats, across three levels. In the auditorium, each cluster of seats is separated from any other cluster of seats, audience members are not sat face-to-face, temperature screening will take place for everyone on arrival, and face coverings are mandatory throughout the venue, except when eating and drinking.
(Differences from current French theatre & cinema policy for audiences: No temperature checks over here, we work on one empty seat between booking groups, face coverings can be removed when seated but are mandatory at all other times in the theatre) Temperature checks according to government medical adviser and deputy in past briefings are fairly useless. You can be infectious for days when presymptomatic, not everyone gets a temperature, and an unknown percentage , estimated at 30-70% of the cases have no symptoms. Then there's what you do about a positive test - not this
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Post by talkingheads on Jul 22, 2020 18:03:51 GMT
I just watched a Zoom Q&A between Kate Mosse, Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss about The Unfriend, really looking forward to seeing it next year.
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Post by basdfg on Jul 22, 2020 18:46:53 GMT
Watching Emmerdale and it seems the filming might be moving from using a 2m - 1m - even through current guidance technically still requires 2m unless in some circumstance (Or with testing but that has only been in a week.)
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2020 19:50:15 GMT
Watching Emmerdale and it seems the filming might be moving from using a 2m - 1m - even through current guidance technically still requires 2m unless in some circumstance (Or with testing but that has only been in a week.) GOODY SMITH IS STANDING LESS THAN TWO METRES FROM GOODY BROWN AND NONE OF THEM ARE WEARING MASKS!!! |
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Post by zahidf on Jul 23, 2020 6:15:03 GMT
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Post by Mark on Jul 23, 2020 10:06:27 GMT
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Post by baguette on Jul 23, 2020 10:19:50 GMT
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Post by zahidf on Jul 23, 2020 12:55:37 GMT
All relatively smooth at the palladium so far. Quick to get in, body scanners for heat was quick, bar service is quick. One way system complicated a little but i think easy enough once peolle get used to it. Masks on throughout. Starting soon!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2020 13:32:17 GMT
All relatively smooth at the palladium so far. Quick to get in, body scanners for heat was quick, bar service is quick. One way system complicated a little but i think easy enough once peolle get used to it. Masks on throughout. Starting soon! HOW EXCITING! |
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Post by zahidf on Jul 23, 2020 14:09:23 GMT
First half was great! Interval now. Bit weird dancing with a mask but people up on their feet!
ALW did a speech beforehand, saying how they need more government clarity asap and how important it is to have rhetaee without social distancing.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2020 14:15:28 GMT
I am so jealous! How exciting to be there and thanks for reporting back. God bless ALW, he deserves legend status for this. I'll even forgive him for Woman in White...
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