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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2020 13:25:22 GMT
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Post by vickyg on Sept 23, 2020 14:44:38 GMT
I'm interested by this. Haven't heard of it before but I love both Juliet Stevenson and Sophie Thompson and it sounds like an interesting premise. Tickets are £12 too so very reasonable and you get 24 hours to watch the stream. I wonder which platform will be used to show it. I would prefer them to be live streams but I can understand that this maximises income for the charity making the same product reusable night after night.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2020 15:16:22 GMT
Yeah, I imagine optimal fundraising happens if there are more performance times. While it may not be live though, this cast sounds sublime. And the play sounds very interesting. The production team is the same as Godspell, so I imagine not filming live also allows for some cool editing.
Every penny is going to the charity, which is really lovely. And 12 quid ain't too bad!
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Post by Forrest on Sept 24, 2020 19:13:16 GMT
I've never heard of the play, although it sounds interesting, but the cast and the cause are both right up my alley.
November seems so far though... (I know it really isn't...)
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2020 18:47:46 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2020 18:48:05 GMT
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Post by vickyg on Sept 28, 2020 14:07:55 GMT
I've booked for this now. Sounds very interesting and am really looking forward to it. When you book you can also add a donation to the charity which can be subject to GiftAid.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2020 19:00:39 GMT
They just released a trailer for the play. Looks fascinating and beautifully done for zoom, right? Excited to see it!
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Post by lynette on Nov 2, 2020 17:28:26 GMT
RIGHT O. So I’ve booked. Now please tell me how I access this> i assume a code will get me there and they send it on the day but can i get it on any device? And can I get it on a telly, a smart ish, one? All help welcome.
( Covid courses I need include hairdressing and IT skills )
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Post by CG on the loose on Nov 2, 2020 17:50:22 GMT
RIGHT O. So I’ve booked. Now please tell me how I access this> i assume a code will get me there and they send it on the day but can i get it on any device? And can I get it on a telly, a smart ish, one? All help welcome. ( Covid courses I need include hairdressing and IT skills ) I'm not sure how this one's actually being streamed - so can't yet answer the smart-TV etc question. But you'll be sent an access passcode and the viewing link the day before which will be valid for 24 hours from 10am on the day you've booked. There's an email address in the booking confirmation to contact if you've not received the link by 9am on the day you've booked. |
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Post by harrietcraig on Nov 2, 2020 17:59:18 GMT
RIGHT O. So I’ve booked. Now please tell me how I access this> i assume a code will get me there and they send it on the day but can i get it on any device? And can I get it on a telly, a smart ish, one? All help welcome. ( Covid courses I need include hairdressing and IT skills ) The FAQ page for the production ( www.littlewars.co.uk/faqs ) says, “You will be viewing LITTLE WARS via VIMEO”, and that’s followed by a link to the Vimeo Technical FAQs page, which may (or may not) be of some help. |
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Post by juicy_but_terribly_drab on Nov 2, 2020 18:36:04 GMT
RIGHT O. So I’ve booked. Now please tell me how I access this> i assume a code will get me there and they send it on the day but can i get it on any device? And can I get it on a telly, a smart ish, one? All help welcome. ( Covid courses I need include hairdressing and IT skills ) If you've got a smart TV it should have a browser app which should be able to watch Vimeo (someone said that's what it's being hosted on) but if not you can always play it on something like a laptop and connect it to the TV with an HDMI cable which will let you view whatever's on the laptop on the TV screen. Or if you haven't got a laptop there should be a way to cast from a smart phone to a smart TV. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 3, 2020 14:39:01 GMT
Yeah, Vimeo has the ability to cast to your TV and there's a Vimeo app too.
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Post by peggs on Nov 3, 2020 19:18:54 GMT
So the first page says it's just this week but when you go to tickets they are further dates with tickets not yet released? Does anyone know if it's extending it's viewing?
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Post by vickyg on Nov 3, 2020 19:44:38 GMT
Well this is brilliant. It took me about 20 minutes to get into the zoom style but then I was completely gripped. Excellent performances, intriguing premise and plot. Far and away the best I’ve seen in this format.
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Post by lynette on Nov 3, 2020 22:01:31 GMT
Thanks guys, I’m checking out the vimeo. It looks like I can get it on the telly which will be good. Why doesn’t some clever bod find a way of getting all the theatre streaming on one platform. I know they are commercial and charge etc but it should be possible, no?
I’m having trouble with vimeo. Enter all the gubbins on the so called form but then it won’t let me join cos time has expired on the form. I’m slow but not that slow. Should I just try again, again.. ?
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Post by vickyg on Nov 3, 2020 23:55:00 GMT
When I followed the Vimeo weblink it only asked me for the password and then the play started playing immediately. I didn’t have to fill in any other information.
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Post by harrietcraig on Nov 4, 2020 21:24:55 GMT
I hate to be that person, but: can anyone who has watched it advise what the running time is?
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Post by vickyg on Nov 4, 2020 21:49:57 GMT
I hate to be that person, but: can anyone who has watched it advise what the running time is? About 1hr 50 if I remember correctly. |
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Post by harrietcraig on Nov 4, 2020 22:17:17 GMT
I hate to be that person, but: can anyone who has watched it advise what the running time is? About 1hr 50 if I remember correctly. Thank you! |
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Post by lynette on Nov 5, 2020 11:45:07 GMT
The access password does not work
The dates I’m given clash- I ordered for today to tomorrow and they say Wed-Thur. but then again they say in the same message, ‘starts today’
Have sent email but am not very hopeful.
So am just considering the £12 as a donation to a very worthy cause,
If anyone of you guys can help, please DM me. No need to bore the lot of us. Ta
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Post by lynette on Nov 5, 2020 21:45:20 GMT
Got there in the end. Excellent. Loved it. Such actors, wow. Would love to see it on the stage, same cast and maybe the Almeida or Donmar with period set etc..maybe. Anyway, I recommend.
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Post by peggs on Nov 5, 2020 22:25:50 GMT
Just bought ticket for weekend, lynette do I need to know anything to access it after your experience please (i'm a bit tech dizzy at times). |
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Post by eatbigsea on Nov 5, 2020 23:40:13 GMT
Oh, I have missed this. A play, a new (to me) play, to watch and to which to react and with such great actors “interacting” with each other. Monologues are good (in many cases, great) but this was different. The acting was uniformly superb. The use of Zoom was innovative and clever. The play...had issues. In many ways I wish the playwright hadn’t used the names of real people, because so much of this depended on suspension of disbelief that just wasn’t possible. I’m sure some of the details with respect to Stein and Toklas were inaccurate, but I don’t know as much about their lives as the others. But (spoilers here, both for the play and for the history): {Spoiler - click to view} Lillian Hellman was no innocent in June 1940, she was a communist sympathiser from years before. Muriel Gardiner may or may not have been the “Julia” of Hellman’s Pentimento, but there is no denying that Gardiner was a very good spy and no spy would have acted in the way the character did in this play. And Agatha Christie was many things (I am a big fan) but she was no friend of the Jewish people, at least not as reflected in any of her books. {Spoiler - click to view}
The historical inaccuracies took me right out of the play. But I was gripped, and recommend it highly. |
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Post by lynette on Nov 6, 2020 21:42:11 GMT
Just bought ticket for weekend, lynette do I need to know anything to access it after your experience please (i'm a bit tech dizzy at times). I couldn’t get the viamo platform on my tv despite it being a very smart one. But the link they send you goes straight to the play with the password ( yep got it right eventually) they send on whatever device you book on. Others might know more about how to get it on a tv. It worked ok on my iPad because it is basically talking heads so not too much to distract the focus. It is a remarkable piece. It might not be totally historically accurate but well within the spirit of the times I think. |
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