Constellations - Vaudeville Theatre

Me too - 20 quid row A seats for a Sunday matinee- bargain :-)

Odd question, but does anyone know if much of the drama in this play is likely to take place at the far sides of the stage?

I want to book a ticket but I’d rather save a bit extra money & get a restricted view, but I’d rather be able to see most of the show unrestricted.

If I remember correctly from the tour- I’m almost certain the entire show is played completely centre stage for the most part. So take a punt!

Depends how it's directed, but don't the actors spend much of the play sitting or lying on the stage? Whether that makes a difference at the Vaudeville, I couldn't say.

I saw it last night with Capaldi and Wanamaker. I had not seen it with Rafe Spall etc previously so was new to the play.

The concept (which if I'd read about it previously, I had forgotten) was easily picked up, and the blending of all these different timelines, different portions of their relationship, and their portrayal of all the small ways our entire lives are completely altered by every thing that can happen to us every single day was effectively conveyed. It was the right amount of funny, had just enough (but not too much) of the physics that underpins it's central idea, and probably was about the right length.

I wondered if I maybe needed a little bit more of the stuff at the end of the play, needed that scene to play out a bit longer, to feel weight of the plays emotion. Maybe it was because it's a short piece, but I just wasn't quite into it enough to have my emotional core disrupted by the scenes on stage. I don't think being in the Grand Circle helped. The Vaudeville is obviously not a massive theatre but for tender, intimate plays like this one maybe I should have shelled out some more bananas. My view was unobstructed, but sometimes that isn't the point.

Peter Capaldi was the real standout performance for me, I'd never seen him on stage and was suitably impressed. I've seen Zoe Wanamaker in lots of things before, and I'm not sure if this was her best work, I wonder if later in the run she'll have eased into it a bit more. Design, lighting, sound all excellent. It's played on a fairly small area towards the front of, and in the centre of the stage. Very friendly to those towards the back of circles and to the sides of rows, I would think.

Me and my friend had a good chat afterwards about how we interpreted different elements and our different understandings of the mechanics of the play, which is always a positive thing. I enjoyed it more than either of the NTs offerings, so this is the winner of my post-lockdown theatrical selection so far.

All the ‘action’ was in the centre of the stage.

There's £25 day seats for this, not sure where they're placed though.

Are you talking about the TodayTix rush tickets, or are they doing in-person day seats too?

I read this the other way, that the seating is currently being allocated on the basis of distancing and that the gaps may become available from 19th July -

"Government guidance permitting, from 19th July 2021 seats currently held to allow for social distancing may be sold to other customers."

I was there tonight as well and wasn't at all impressed, but maybe that's because I'd seen it twice before and, really, Sally Hawkins was SO indelible as Marianne that Wanamaker can't help but seem fussy and actressy -- very odd, too, that they don't tweak the script to accommodate that duo's ages since you do think *what?" when she talks of taking a 20-something-year-old lover. It's odd, too, that a play so busy repeating itself textually is itself currently being repeated by four different casts textually.

Am looking forward to Sheila Atim, though, who is a formidable talent and probably will ground the material in a way Wanamaker couldn't. I liked Peter Capaldi but the blunt truth is that he, too, is way too old for the part AS WRITTEN. Hey ho.

They should have emailed it to you by now ( they have for me!) shoudl be within 48 hours of your show    

doesnt say anything about toliets. Its 75 minutes all the way through, no readmission once it starts

I was told you can pick up your tickets at the box office with your reference if its not emailed to you. 

Thank you zahidf and NeilVHughes - if it’s 48 hours before, they’ve got a couple of days yet to contact me, so I’ll keep an eye on junk mail!