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Post by theatrenerd on Oct 8, 2023 21:12:14 GMT
Looks like the Birmingham run has been cancelled, it’s been removed from both the tour list and the Alex’s website. Gutted, as I was wanting to see this but hadn’t got round to booking yet!
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Post by nicolaa on Oct 13, 2023 10:53:24 GMT
Looks like the Birmingham run has been cancelled, it’s been removed from both the tour list and the Alex’s website. Gutted, as I was wanting to see this but hadn’t got round to booking yet! Had a look to see how its doing,
Thats a Friday night, with less than 8 hours to the performance (and the top 2 levels are closed rather than sold out).
More people in the audience for the actual coughing episode than appear to be going to see this tour.
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Post by Rory on Oct 24, 2023 10:22:18 GMT
Rory Bremner on BBC Breakfast this morning at 7.50am.
No mention of a West End return for this after the tour ends.
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Post by marob on Oct 26, 2023 23:45:57 GMT
Saw this yesterday. Was looking forward to it after seeing James Graham’s rather good adaptation of Boys From the Blackstuff but feel like it fell flat. The lack of an atmosphere in the theatre didn’t help as it hasn’t sold too well either. The top level was closed and the other two were not quite half full.
Reading back over this page there seems to have been a lot cut from it, no warmup man, no pub quiz, no game shows. But oddly they kept the Coronation Street bit, so Rory Bremner suddenly appearing as Hilda Ogden is much more jarring than I imagine it would have been in the original production.
I enjoyed it, but it felt slight, which is strange considering some of the themes it deals with. I do find that I keep thinking about it though.
The manipulation of facts to fit a media narrative/political agenda is always relevant, but horrifyingly so as the play’s use of footage of the “shock and awe” bombing of Baghdad can’t help but make you relate it to the current situation with Gaza.
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Post by david on Oct 30, 2023 21:06:07 GMT
A few thoughts from Saturday's matinee visit to the Lowry. Overall, it was good fun and Rory Bremner was brilliant as Chris Tarrant. Comparing the touring version with the WE run, I'd say that I found the WE version better both as a watch and general audience atmosphere with the warmup man, pub quiz and game show scene. With these bits missing from the tour, the tour version felt very different.
Having a look at the end of the show when the week's voting graphs came up on the big screens, interestingly, there wasn't much difference in the public vote amongst the week's audience. On average the split of guilty: not guilty was on balance 60 :40.
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Post by maggiem on Oct 31, 2023 10:48:56 GMT
A few thoughts from Saturday's matinee visit to the Lowry. Overall, it was good fun and Rory Bremner was brilliant as Chris Tarrant. Comparing the touring version with the WE run, I'd say that I found the WE version better both as a watch and general audience atmosphere with the warmup man, pub quiz and game show scene. With these bits missing from the tour, the tour version felt very different. Having a look at the end of the show when the week's voting graphs came up on the big screens, interestingly, there wasn't much difference in the public vote amongst the week's audience. On average the split of guilty: not guilty was on balance 60 :40. I was there too. I'd booked upper circle but moved down to the dress circle, row F. Agree about Rory as Chris, and I enjoyed the Hilda Ogden moment too. A very talented supporting cast playing multiple roles and using multiple accents was a joy to watch as well. Not having seen the WE version, I thought this version was fine, and I didn't feel that there was a poor atmosphere in the theatre. Watching the second half really brought home just how nasty people can be; social media is so much more prevalent now than the time of this story, and it's disheartening to realise that things haven't got better, but far worse.
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