Four Quartets - Bath & Tour

For all performances of Four Quartets from Monday 22 November onwards, 40 tickets located throughout the auditorium costing £10 each will be made available each day for that day’s performance(s).
Tickets will be available in person only from the box office and will be released at 4pm for that evening’s performance or 11am on the day for matinees.
£10 tickets are strictly limited to a maximum of two per person.

So in order to bag a cheapie you have to roam about a miserable patch of the West End in the freezing cold for a few hours. So if you don’t know, these are poems you can read at home or even listen a recording of the poet himself read. 

Yes, went there yesterday. V nice though tbh, it has lost its quirkiness which I liked:  the fact that you had to negotiate little stone steps and a turn to the loos and the cafe. Now the cafe is another bland offering in the space where the shop used to be. Oh, and I guess they will lose some business in the shop because I missed it - it is downstairs now and a lot of people don't like enclosed spaces a la covid and also you don’t need to go through it at all or anywhere near it in fact. Mistake. The rooms all nicely cleaned and repainted; the fab art well placed, the barmaid presides over the room as she should. It was very crowded ‘spose cos just opened. Oh and the lift was out of order so had to go up all…those…steps… Needed oxygen at the top. Honestly, lift not working in first week.



 If you are suggesting a visit could be made after bagging a cheap seat at the Pinter, then yes, possible. 

Coughing and ice cubes, eh? Were people wearing masks, I guess not?

lynette yep, very distracting more than anything. Wasn't really paying attention to masks except to say some were wearing them and some weren't.

zahidf I got there at quarter past 4 and got one no bother.

Not one single cough, not one. O joy!
Utter hassle of course, crowded tube, covid pass wouldn’t show up on my phone, bag check, blah blah BUT TOTALLY WORTH IT. A brilliant performance. Mannered yes, and I was thinking where is this going but it went exactly where it should, illuminating meaning where possible. I mean nobody understands all of it (do they?) Lighting and sound effects good. In fact I won’t even moan about the price of the ticket anymore. The Row A at the end was good. Maybe they should think about moving the table but he delivered practically all of it right front of stage. He is very good, isn’t he, very good, old Voldemort?
As for the poem - actually somewhat revived in this show. Lots of ‘relevant’ stuff - ‘this twittering world ‘ a gift of course. The prayer for those lost at sea, brought tears to my eyes. Humour, dry, but there discovered in lines I had forgotten.
So I recommend.

I enjoyed this. Though i was waiting 10 mins for the day seat while the guy in front of me had a really long chat about the state of the world and wanted to know in exact detail what the view was like for every single seat on offer. The queue behind him was somewhat fuming

Totally connected with the actual theatre performance but would like to share a very strange fact. I recently realised that my Great Uncle was at Merton, Oxford at the same time as T.S Eliot! He was the first from his school in Sheffield to go to Oxford (they gave everyone a day off to celebrate his success) and was from an uneducated family (his father was a cabinet maker). He got a double first in Greats in 1915 before becoming a pilot in Royal Flying Core in WWI…..where he died near the end of the war. I realised T.S. Eliot was at Oxford briefly in 1914 (he wasn’t a great fan of Oxford and soon decamped to London)…..Eliot did speak in a debate in the common room when there was a motion complaining about how many Americans there were at the college!!!!
I wonder what they would have made of each other if they met…..my great Uncle, northern, never been out of the country, bullied when he was at Oxford by the toffs and Eliot….rather exotic and well travelled….there is a play in there somewhere!!!!
My grandfather also became a pilot, never going to university as he was younger, so the war timing prevented it, and survived the war….and the rest as they say, is history.

Apologies for the diversion but I couldn't resist!

Exactly what I thought when I read your post, and I know just the person to write that play:  if Tom Stoppard could make a play out of Lenin, James Joyce, and Tristan Tzara all having been in Zurich in 1917, he could probably make a play out of your great Uncle and Eliot both having been in Oxford in 1914.

TodayTix has bits and pieces in the Stalls, Wed matinee, for £23 - partially restricted.