Old Vic in Camera: Three Kings starring Andrew Scott

Ditto! I loved watching Sea Wall earlier during lockdown so hoping to get a ticket for this via the general on-sale.

Last of the Haussmanns, NT 2012, which I enjoyed but got mixed reviews. Julie Walters, Helen McCrory and Rory Kinnear, but another one of the “wealthy parents, dissolute children, inheritance issues” genre.

The film Pride, 2014, about Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners, which had Andrew Scott in it.

Why do they have to limit the ticket numbers though? Is it for some sort of legal reason, not being allowed to sell more than the venue's physical capacity, is there a limit on streaming capacity, or is it to make it seem "exclusive"? With the obvious crisis in theatre, why not sell as many tickets as possible to raise funds and allow more people to have access?

Sea Wall had 130,000 views in its first week on Youtube at the start of lockdown. I don't know the total figure by the end of the second week, but Scott has a big global fanbase and I've seen people tweet they watched it several times. And that's without the media muscle of the Old Vic's publicity behind it, and for a play many will have already seen, either live or online (pirate copies etc.). This is a new piece, with that added draw. If the Old Vic online audience had to pay a tenner or more every time, the repeat view figures would obviously be less, but still, there's a big audience out there and theoretically anyone, anywhere in the world could tune in - you're not limited by having to have the money and time and physical ability to travel to London and sit in an uncomfy Victorian theatre. And you won't leave those who fail to get a ticket feeling shut out and resentful, as some people felt about the 'Tortured' lottery last year (I missed out several times but luckily the reviews were bad and I got a return for that!).

It's the Lungs thing all over again. They want it to be theatre-like, so you have to get frustrated by the ticket selling process, have to sit at home in front of your computer the evening you booked (instead of whenever you want in a certain time-window) and watch a live-performance (though no one will actually know, if this is indeed live, unless Andrew Scott holds up that days paper every 5 minutes). I said before: this is more like a German artistic Stadttheater-thing than a London venue desperate for money. But if they want it that way and call it a success...please do.

The Old Vic's Fanny & Alexander was also one if his (in collaboration with Ingmar Bergman, obvs).

I am so sad that I have to agree with this: £10-15 for everyone (to the extent the Zoom capacity allows for of course, as it must have a limit too) rather than different, increasing prices for a limited number of people would have been much more accessible.

I am not quite in agreement with myself about how much I would be willing to pay for an online performance, tbh: £10-20 seems OK, but everything above is more than I normally give for a theatre ticket (unless I have a really, really good reason to give more) for a performance happening live, right in front of me. 

(To be fair to the Vic, though, at least this time there are no £65 tickets, as was the case for Lungs, which I thought was insane.)

Managed to get a £10 ticket for the Wednesday. 218 in the queue at 10am. I’ve abstained from all virtual theatre so far (not the same, rest of my life is already too screen-centric) but making an exception for Andrew Scott.

Skipping the conversation though at £20 that’s a bit pricy.

Was number 579. Booked 15 minutes ago, £ 10 tickets were available for all days.

Joined the queue at 9.30, got number 1668! Still queuing, but if there's nothing cheap I'm just going to hope it'll pop up on youtube or TV or something.

Btw, is there any advantage to joining the queue early, or are places really assigned randomly at 10am?  

I joined on three devices at 9.50am, got 222, 1870ish and 1950ish. (Immediately logged off the higher two so that others can move up the queue faster) - was able to book at about 10.20am.