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Post by n1david on Aug 25, 2020 11:25:10 GMT
What do they expect the NT/South Bank to do though? I don't imagine they are particularly relishing making so many staff redundant - it's hardly a situation that they've chosen. Why put “bailout” in inverted commas as if it wasn’t a bailout ? Well, they haven’t actually got any money yet from it, and the distribution hasn’t been settled, so I suppose it’s possible that the NT doesn’t get any government money (although I accept that is less likely than Rufus Norris directing The Mousetrap)
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Post by zahidf on Oct 27, 2020 0:03:11 GMT
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Post by peggs on Oct 27, 2020 0:44:25 GMT
Well I guess I was never going to be able to get a ticket for this in old times so the fact that as I don't have sky so still won't not a lot's changed. Interesting Benvolio choice.
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Post by vdcni on Oct 27, 2020 6:59:14 GMT
Sky Arts is now free to air through Freeview so everyone should have access to it.
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Post by crowblack on Oct 27, 2020 8:48:56 GMT
I don't have sky so still won't not a lot's changed. Retune your Freeview - it was added very recently and you should find it on Ch11.
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Post by justfran on Oct 27, 2020 10:53:18 GMT
I’m really pleased about this announcement and should be an interesting screening.
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Post by peggs on Oct 27, 2020 12:49:38 GMT
I don't have sky so still won't not a lot's changed. Retune your Freeview - it was added very recently and you should find it on Ch11. You're kidding? I did try that recently and checked but definitely wasn't seeing what it said, will try again thanks.
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Post by londonpostie on Oct 27, 2020 13:00:01 GMT
In a way this just makes me sadder. This is obv. much better than losing the production altogether but I was so looking forward to this.
In related news; I had an email exchange with the box office: credits in my account now for **ten** cancelled productions.
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Post by peggs on Oct 27, 2020 20:07:18 GMT
I don't have sky so still won't not a lot's changed. Retune your Freeview - it was added very recently and you should find it on Ch11. Well it didn't work after the recent announcement of this being a thing but it did now so thanks crowblack
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Post by theatrelover123 on May 16, 2021 16:17:07 GMT
Paradise (the Philoctetes/Lesley Sharp/Ian Rickson show) is scheduled to (re-)start from October.
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Post by theoracle on May 16, 2021 16:24:18 GMT
Paradise (the Philoctetes/Lesley Sharp/Ian Rickson show) is scheduled to (re-)start from October. HURRAH! With/without social distancing?
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Post by theatrelover123 on May 16, 2021 16:29:17 GMT
Paradise (the Philoctetes/Lesley Sharp/Ian Rickson show) is scheduled to (re-)start from October. HURRAH! With/without social distancing? Dunno. Just know a friend who confirmed its return.
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Post by Jan on May 16, 2021 19:57:50 GMT
I was interested in this initially. I wonder if top price tickets will still be £89. Post-Covid pricing will be interesting to see, my feeling is they’ll have to be cheaper to rebuild an audience but I might be wrong.
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Post by Rory on May 8, 2024 8:28:06 GMT
I'm wondering why the new shows were all announced piecemeal but still relatively close together in time? First Ballet Shoes, then Earnest and then the last three including Coriolanus.
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Post by dr on May 8, 2024 16:37:44 GMT
My hunch is something to do with PR? Both "Ballet Shoes" and "Earnest" (with its immensely starry cast) are big shows for the NT, so I imagine they will have wanted to give them the best chance in the press, with audiences/followers online etc. rather than being drowned in a big season announcement.
Perhaps they've observed that shows announced as a season are less popular? Anyone have any thoughts?
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Post by showgirl on May 8, 2024 18:12:07 GMT
Suits me if it makes booking easier, as it certainly seemed to for Ballet Shoes. I've often found it annoying, wanting only a single ticket for a single production in a new season, to be forced to join a massive & slow-moving queue, probably full of people wishing to book multiple tickets for multiple shows. I don't ever recall so short and fast-moving a queue as for when public booking opened for Ballet Shoes, which was even more helpful as I was out at the time so having to use my mobile rather than my laptop.
None of the other newly-announced shows appeals in the least to me, so win-win: I don't clog up the queue for others, either, when booking for those productions goes live.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on May 9, 2024 9:41:58 GMT
All previous NT season announcement threads have been merged into this single thread.
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Post by mkb on May 10, 2024 10:30:27 GMT
The National is so wasteful. There is no option on the contact preferences to stop them sending out sizeable A5 packages full of marketing material, and I have never asked for them. But, every season, around a week after I have checked out all of the new plays online to decide which I want to see, through my letter box comes a package. How much of this unsolicited physical material is the National sending out? It must be costing a small fortune. How are they able to be so profligate? And how does this align with any pretence to have enviromental sustainabilty goals?
I have emailed them asking if they can stop, but people shouldn't have to ask. The default should be digital marketing only, unless you opt in to physical.
(I could repeat this complaint for many other venues.)
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Post by jek on May 10, 2024 15:51:31 GMT
I know it is very much each to his own on this but I am always glad to receive the physical copies from the National. I do search out a lot online but I still like a nicely produced pamphlet that I can look at at leisure (just as I also like to buy a physical newspaper - the Financial Times - at the weekend). Simlarly, while I love my Kindle, I also still buy quite a few well designed physical books. I am particularly pleased that the 'What's On' booklet that arrived from the National today has a nicely illustrated piece in it about the artwork by Amelia Lancaster which is currently on display in one of the foyers.
As for environmental concerns I expect there are other areas of the National Theatre which are much more profligate. And, of course, online content isn't 'energy free' either.
I think that calling people/businesses to account on their energy usage is difficult. I, for example, due to family circumstance, haven't been on a plane for 27 years. Nor do I drive. But I have adult children who, obviously, are only here because of me and who, of course, use up the planet's resources.
As for opting in/out it does seem wrong that there isn't an option to do so on the website. I am a priority member and I can't recall every being asked my preferences and, looking on the account section of the National website the only preferences you can set is for which emails you want to receive. It would be interesting to know what sort of marketing research the organisation has done around this issue.
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Post by lynette on May 11, 2024 16:36:42 GMT
I like the pamphlets too because i can compare dates and use them as reminders around my stuff.
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Post by parsley1 on May 11, 2024 20:02:35 GMT
I like the pamphlets too because i can compare dates and use them as reminders around my stuff. The NT brochures sent in the post No long contain a calendar and have not done for ages I am unsure of their point tbh
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