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Post by foxa on Mar 11, 2024 13:03:57 GMT
Did eventually get 2 tix for Giant but lost my first choice ones and it wouldn't let me look at anything else. For that play at least the availability seems good.
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Post by Steve on Mar 11, 2024 13:07:14 GMT
I paused my advert blocking on the website and that seemed to have helped (or it might just be coincidence?). I think you might be right. I noticed my browser waiting ages to be fed ads, soI did the same thing, it let the ads in, and I proceeded. Who knows if it's a coincidence? |
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Post by n1david on Mar 11, 2024 14:06:07 GMT
Anyone still struggling, as I was - the season is available on TodayTix and, for the seats for Giant I was looking for, they were £2/ticket cheaper than booking direct with the Court...
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Post by mrnutz on Mar 11, 2024 14:33:30 GMT
Anyone still struggling, as I was - the season is available on TodayTix and, for the seats for Giant I was looking for, they were £2/ticket cheaper than booking direct with the Court... Damn, mine would have been cheaper too! What's that about?! |
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Post by theoracle on Mar 11, 2024 14:39:08 GMT
Most frustrating website ever. I was considering taking advantage of the season bundle offer but just took one for Bluets in the end. Are prices really cheaper on TodayTix? Looked £2 more expensive for top price?
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Post by stevemar on Mar 11, 2024 14:45:46 GMT
After the usual errors (lost basket, crashes and Apple page warnings so cleared history) and frustration including long wait and giving up on trying to call the box office:
- they came back to me within 35 minutes after I emailed them due to IT/human error I’d managed to book the wrong date for Bluets (swapping to the correct date).
- they offered to call me back for trying to book Giant, but I’ve since succeeded in booking online.
So, worth a try if you have problems by emailing BoxOffice@royalcourttheatre.com .
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Post by n1david on Mar 11, 2024 15:00:56 GMT
Most frustrating website ever. I was considering taking advantage of the season bundle offer but just took one for Bluets in the end. Are prices really cheaper on TodayTix? Looked £2 more expensive for top price? Looking at a random date for Giant (22 Oct), pricier tickets are £2 cheaper - top price is £58 on the RCT website but £56 on TodayTix. Cheapest tickets (Band D and E) are more expensive on TodayTix than the RCT. Same with Bluets, picking 11 June as the random date. |
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Post by aspieandy on Mar 11, 2024 16:24:01 GMT
I couldn't book earlier and have just been in and out in a flash. Has been sticky in the past but all good today.
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Post by zahidf on Apr 17, 2024 11:05:29 GMT
Dugsdi Days is now sold out, except for the Monday day tickets
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Post by aspieandy on Jun 25, 2024 16:09:25 GMT
Quite the cast now for Giant. Not on the page yet but added to Lithgow are Rachael Sterling and Romola Garai, plus Richard Hope, Elliot Levey and others.
Sir N. Hytner of the South Bank parish directs.
Award bait? What price a transfer?
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Post by foxa on Jun 30, 2024 12:05:01 GMT
Glad I've got tix for Giant!
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Post by Dave B on Jul 8, 2024 12:29:56 GMT
ECHO performers & dates
Sat 13 July - Fiona Shaw
Mon 15 July- Benedict Wong
Tues 16 Jul - Sheila Atim
Wed 17 Jul - Adrian Lester
Thur 18 Jul - Jeremy O. Harris
Friday 19 Jul - Rebecca Lucy Taylor aka Self Esteem
Sat 20 Jul (matinee) - Monica Dolan
Sat 20 Jul (evening) - Special Guest TBA
Mon 22 Jul - Meera Syal
Tues 23 Jul - Jodie Whittaker
Wed 24 Jul - Mawaan Rizwan
Thur 25 Jul - Jessica Gunning
Fri 26 Jul - Nick Mohammed
Sat 27 Jul (matinee) - Toby Jones
Sat 27 Jul (evening) - Kathryn Hunter
That'll be Jeremy O. Harris for us then...
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Post by foxa on Jul 8, 2024 14:53:05 GMT
LOL - I booked for Jeremy O. Harris too. Great opportunity to see him and there's a post-show talk that evening, but a lot of actors I'd like to see:Fiona Shaw,Adrian Lester,Monica Dolan...
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Post by foxa on Jul 19, 2024 22:12:46 GMT
Saw this last night and enjoyed it in part. Jeremy O. Harris is very charismatic, the technical wizardry was spectacular, but the premise/writing was more hit and miss. But overall, glad to have seen it and learned a lot from the aftershow talk back.
The Royal Court felt very buzzy after a dire couple of years.
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Post by Steve on Jul 20, 2024 21:16:04 GMT
I also enjoyed "Echo," which tonight turned out to feature Emilia Clarke (of "Game of Thrones" and Jamie Lloyd's "The Seagull"). Some spoilers follow. . . It felt a little like David Lynch's "Twin Peaks," with a sense of place being specific (Berlin, Tehran, Sweden, the Royal Court) but also everywhere (floating through galaxies); with a sense of time being now, in the past and in the future all at once; with a doppelganger sense of two people being one person; with different languages and subtitles. Its basically the story of the playwright being displaced from his home by politics, about his father being brave in the face of Iran's regime whereas he himself was not so brave (Clarke got to live through a moment of the playwright's fear). Clarke was a little like Goldilocks, in that she had to wear white socks and shoes like the playwright was wearing and the shoes turned out to be "huge," as she exclaimed in wonder lol. Her face also shimmered golden in the warm spotlight, when set in front of images of galaxies and planets floating through space ("immigrants emigrating from the Big Bang" she said, repeating lines piped to her through an earpiece, continuing the playwright's theme of humans being "immigrants in time"), and her black or navy dress absorbed so much light that she looked like the serene sun, from Tellytubbies, a disembodied radiant golden face with shimmering golden hair and a beatific smile. She was serene in mood, as well, recovering from admitted pre-show nerves as soon as she had a script to read off a laptop. How did she feel, the playwright asked? "Very calm" she said, sounding very calm. The playwright seemed disconcerted, as he confessed he felt "confused and lost in life." But it was his comforting script that made her feel calm lol. Some bits were definitely live, as the playwright asked Clarke questions and followed up based on her answers. She was reading a book by the "Fleishman in Trouble" author, for example, and he commented about that. The playwright would then turn his camera, and at those moments, I assume, we switched to recorded bits, like the sneaky cuts Hitchcock made in his supposed "one shot" movie, "Rope." The playwright's dog was called Echo, so that explains the title in part (lol) and I think Clarke's dog was called Ted. All in all, Clarke brought a benign sense of calm and serenity to the piece, while the playwright brought his life story, his confession, his sense of everything being connected. I thought the show was moving (will the playwright ever see Iran again?) and mysterious (the poetry of eternity and space always is), and unique (getting Clarke involved for one time only). 4 stars from me.  |
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Post by foxa on Jul 21, 2024 14:17:25 GMT
Although it is very controlled on one level (the performer is largely reading a script or responding to directions in their earpiece),from Steve's description I can see how each performer brings something different.
Some spoilers follow!
Jeremy O. Harris engaged very actively in the initial real time video call with Nassim, commenting on things he saw in Nassim's room - Nassim said when they met he would give him one of the books he noticed.
His sandals weren't too big!
Nassim complimented Jeremy's reading of the first long story, saying that he was the first playwright to appear in Echo.
At one point, Jeremy was dancing behind a scrim which had projections running across it. In the talkback afterwards he said that he was told something in his earpiece like 'You are going on a journey. Enjoy the trip!' and his dancing was his interpretation of that (Nassim said he didn't write those words and that it was the first he'd heard of them. Apparently they came from the very active collaboration with the director and videographer.)
My favourite moments were when something mentioned in the story read early on were echoed (as it were) in the video,such as the appearance of the little boy in the pilot uniform, which took my breath away.
The least successful bits to me were the wafty philosophising.
In the talkback, Nassim said that some sections were live/real-time video calls (as was his participation in the talkback) others were prefilmed (I noticed the join for this was often masked by a finger suddenly covering the lens). However he said that led to some critics thinking it was all pre-filmed which it wasn't.
One of the most intriguing moments was after Jeremy read Nassim's story about his father and Jeremy said he didn't get on with his own father, so it always gave him a 'tickle,' not necessarily good or bad, when he read about other (implied: positive) paternal relationships. Nassim said he should have seen the first draft (implied: more problematic.)
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Post by alessia on Jul 27, 2024 5:48:13 GMT
I went last night and saw Nick Mohammed - having read previous comments now I know that the calls dropping were not scripted! Nick was clearly a little nervous 'it's going to. be a long night' he repeated a couple of times when the connection got interrupted, and then the video came back but not the audio 😅 - and then when Nassim went out to the street with his dog lol.
I think the script worked well with this actor as they both played with the fact that they look alike, so when we move to the recorded part of Nassim remembering his last day in Teheran, it is believable (or kind of) when Nick replies to the questions pretending to be him. They were also both wearing a red shirt.
I also think that the more philosophical parts of the play are the least interesting, but overall I enjoyed the performance. Nick Mohammed was very good and very funny at times, and the text seemed to affect him a bit, he was visibly moved in parts.
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Post by Rory on Aug 8, 2024 15:53:05 GMT
A good cast announced for Brace, Brace: Phil Dunster, Anjana Vasan and Craige Els.
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Post by ThereWillBeSun on Aug 8, 2024 23:22:58 GMT
A good cast announced for Brace, Brace: Phil Dunster, Anjana Vasan and Craige Els. Only came across this the day before the casting announcement - only the first preview had sold out. Now, quite a few. It’s a tiny space so not surprised! I’ve booked as intrigued as Anjana was phenomenal in Streetcar. |
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Post by alessia on Aug 9, 2024 4:55:15 GMT
A good cast announced for Brace, Brace: Phil Dunster, Anjana Vasan and Craige Els. Only came across this the day before the casting announcement - only the first preview had sold out. Now, quite a few. It’s a tiny space so not surprised! I’ve booked as intrigued as Anjana was phenomenal in Streetcar. I also didn't book until yesterday and was v surprised that so many days are sold out! good casting...I booked for Phil Dunster mostly, I loved him in Ted Lasso! |
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Post by foxa on Aug 10, 2024 9:34:01 GMT
I just bookedd for this - one of the early (6.45) Saturday nights.
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Post by harry on Aug 10, 2024 10:16:10 GMT
They’re attracting some quite juicy names in this first season (thinking Bluets, Giant, Brace Brace plus ECHO although I get that was a slightly different proposition). It’s interesting to ponder if that’s David Byrne and the new regime targeting more well known actors, or whether they always tried but the plays in the new programme are what’s attracting them. Or I guess the directors of these plays too (Nicholas Hytner and Katie Mitchell obviously very seasoned pros and Daniel Raggett certainly making a name for himself). Probably a mixture of things but it does seem if the casting continues in this vein the audiences will come where they really weren’t going at the end of the last regime.
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Post by Rory on Aug 10, 2024 11:50:37 GMT
I booked Brace Brace for the cast and director.
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Post by parsley1 on Aug 10, 2024 12:02:36 GMT
They’re attracting some quite juicy names in this first season (thinking Bluets, Giant, Brace Brace plus ECHO although I get that was a slightly different proposition). It’s interesting to ponder if that’s David Byrne and the new regime targeting more well known actors, or whether they always tried but the plays in the new programme are what’s attracting them. Or I guess the directors of these plays too (Nicholas Hytner and Katie Mitchell obviously very seasoned pros and Daniel Raggett certainly making a name for himself). Probably a mixture of things but it does seem if the casting continues in this vein the audiences will come where they really weren’t going at the end of the last regime. I would argue the RC has always attracted “names” who are quality and can act They are NOT a venue concerned with stunt casting or having Tom Holland there for attention The primary focus is the writing and writers |
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Post by parsley1 on Aug 10, 2024 12:12:54 GMT
In the last 3 years:
Fenella Woolgar
Jodie Mcnee
Kate O Flynn
Rochenda Sandall
Jade Anouka
Martin Crimp
Tracy Ann Oberman
Priyanga Burford
Ria Zimitrowicz
Fisayo Akinade
Arthur Darvill
Genevieve O Reilly
Cecilia Noble
John Heffernan
Linda Basset
Katherine Parkinson
Other than the Almeida and NT
Probably the best roll call of actors of any theatre in the country
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