Fly More Than You Fall - Southwark Playhouse Elephant

Has anybody ever exchanged the ticket at Southwark for a different date? I bough it from my Pay-as-you-go subscription, online. I'm wondering if the plans change, how easy/quick is the actual exchange. They say in the T&C that it costs 2 GBP per ticket, but there's not much more and I'm not sure if it applies to tickets bought online and within PAYG sub. Thanks!

they will charge £2 and then return the PAYG ticket back to your account. Super easy over the phone, or email them, they will reserve it and ask you to call up and pay.

I didn’t really rate this unfortunately. Some good numbers but I found overall it didn’t come together, a very unlikable father character and other character relationships under-developed. One ensemble number in act two was particularly bad.

Keala was very good, if underused, and leading lady Robyn Rose-Li was excellent.

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Absolutely. Dreadful

Couldn’t disagree more with it being dreadful I managed to see the second preview and it was so heartwarming and whilst it was emotionalthe vocals were insane.

Glad I got to see this show at the start of its journey, think people forget that shows in these spaces are not finished and go to venues like this to try things out and see what works and what doesn't

Not to mention denying pay as you go members access to the best block of seats.

Nowhere is anywhere saying this is a tryout though? For many shows the productions at Southwark Elephant are the only production, or an enhanced production from a previous one (see Police Cops/Cable Street).

Two stars from WhatsOnStage and The Stage. Three from The Guardian.

I went in to this blind without knowing a single thing about it, and was then quite surprised by how much it mirrored my own life as I was 17 (and an aspiring writer) when my father was diagnosed with terminal cancer, and he only lived a short time until the disease took his life, and afterwards I thought I was coping until I wasn't.

I do think this is a very messy, mixed affair, the upbeat opening feels ridiculously simplistic, and the broad comedy of the writer's camp was odd. But when it dealt with the difficulties of having to cope watching a parent slowly die I thought it got an awful lot right, and captured the conflicting emotions and responses someone might have.

I feel it does need a fair amount of work (Malia's writing and the personification of the two birds is really dodgy, while her school friends are two dimension at best, and often just one dimensional), but there are scenes which are powerful, and about fifty percent of the songs are at the very least quite sweet and affecting. So I'd fall in with the three star reviews, I'm not sure I'd recommend it, but I'm glad I've seen it even if right now it is a flawed beast.

Unfortunately, not the greatest thing I've seen. I know it's off west end, but it the set looked really poor, giving school budget vibe. The performances were amazing, especially from the lead girl, the girl who played the bird, and of course Keala, but I agree that she's not a huge part of the show (sadly). Good songs, but I missed bigger instrumentation, more complex arrangements, it just seemed to small, but the melodies were there. Felt a little bit too cheesy, the way The Little Big Things felt, although emotional moving. Could be much better if somebody worked on the cheesiness (maybe added some more complexity to the theme, it seems very simple now), the instrumentation, and ivnested in the bigger set.

Very well said kyvai
I didn’t post after seeing it last Saturday because I wasn’t quite sure what to say. I loved it but I was incredibly star stuck being 6 inches in front of Keala Settle so maybe I was biased by that.
Amazing performances. The actress who played the bird ‘Willow’ is Maddison Bullyment, she was fantastic. I saw her play Anne Boleyn in Six.
There’s room for massive musicals on huge stages and smaller, more intimate ones too. I’d give it 4 stars though.