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Post by cirque on Aug 30, 2021 18:17:49 GMT
Anticipating an announcement soon and Hoping for a grown up,no warning season of great drama .
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Post by anthony on Sept 15, 2021 20:37:19 GMT
Presale tickets went up on TodayTix today.
Picked up a couple of £8 tickets to Merchant of Venice and Hamlet. Merchant is my favourite Shakespeare play, but I've yet to see a good production of it, so if it's good I'll probably buy better tickets at a later date.
I'm not anticipating being able to see anything from the £8 seats...!
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Post by peggs on Sept 15, 2021 20:38:48 GMT
Where on earth are £8 seats, on the roof?!
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Post by anthony on Sept 15, 2021 20:54:08 GMT
Where on earth are £8 seats, on the roof?! it's quite a small theatre. Only stalls and a gallery. The gallery only has 4 rows and the £8 seats are the back two rows on either side of the theatre. Although they're advertised as seats, I believe they're actually standing? I've never been there. But it looks quite intimate. |
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Post by londonpostie on Sept 15, 2021 20:56:06 GMT
They're £5 plus Todaytix commission. There's another thread hereabouts.
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Post by David J on Sept 15, 2021 21:54:11 GMT
Where on earth are £8 seats, on the roof?! it's quite a small theatre. Only stalls and a gallery. The gallery only has 4 rows and the £8 seats are the back two rows on either side of the theatre. Although they're advertised as seats, I believe they're actually standing? I've never been there. But it looks quite intimate. From what I hear, in those cheap “seats” you might as well be listening to a radio dramatisation than watching a piece of theatre |
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Post by Jan on Sept 16, 2021 6:33:41 GMT
it's quite a small theatre. Only stalls and a gallery. The gallery only has 4 rows and the £8 seats are the back two rows on either side of the theatre. Although they're advertised as seats, I believe they're actually standing? I've never been there. But it looks quite intimate. From what I hear, in those cheap “seats” you might as well be listening to a radio dramatisation than watching a piece of theatre Correct. In a theatre totally full of appallingly bad and uncomfortable seats they are the worst of the lot. That's quite a trick they've pulled there, very high prices for awful seats on the spurious basis that they are somehow "authentic". |
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Post by Someone in a tree on Sept 16, 2021 7:47:14 GMT
From what I hear, in those cheap “seats” you might as well be listening to a radio dramatisation than watching a piece of theatre Correct. In a theatre totally full of appallingly bad and uncomfortable seats they are the worst of the lot. That's quite a trick they've pulled there, very high prices for awful seats on the spurious basic that they are somehow "authentic". We should have a thread on the worst theatres. Or perhaps just rename this thread. |
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Post by Jan on Sept 16, 2021 12:33:59 GMT
Correct. In a theatre totally full of appallingly bad and uncomfortable seats they are the worst of the lot. That's quite a trick they've pulled there, very high prices for awful seats on the spurious basic that they are somehow "authentic". We should have a thread on the worst theatres. Or perhaps just rename this thread. I think they are the worst of the permanent theatres. I was once in a temporary theatre NT put up in Bernie Spain Garden which was worse partly because it was also freezing cold. Jermyn Street used to be terrible too, bare wooden church pews, but is now delightful. |
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Post by londonpostie on Sept 16, 2021 12:41:44 GMT
aka the Sam Backbreaker.
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Post by peggs on Sept 16, 2021 13:11:59 GMT
Right the new £5 standing ones. I steer clear of cheaper there on basis it's false economy.
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Post by Jan on Sept 16, 2021 14:49:53 GMT
Right the new £5 standing ones. I steer clear of cheaper there on basis it's false economy. The expensive ones are little better. They once did a rehearsed reading of a play there that ran well over 4hrs. Imagine that. |
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Post by peggs on Sept 16, 2021 19:24:54 GMT
Oh I'm well aware that you end up sat on your neighbours and twisted in some weird position that spines were not designed for. Could be rather than pre booking interval drinks pre book a physio appointment.
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Post by Dave B on Oct 14, 2021 10:53:55 GMT
Just been advised that the cheap (£8) seats are no longer in fact seats but are standing and all Today Tix have suggested is paying the difference to £30 for a seat!
Waiting to hear further from their customer service now.
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Post by cavocado on Oct 23, 2021 10:24:22 GMT
Have I missed the cast announcements for any of these? I can't see anything on the Globe's website. They tweeted on 11th that rehearsals had started for Measure for Measure, but I don't think there's been any info since on who is rehearsing. I'm interested in seeing M for M, and not expecting any big names, but I just want to know who the leads are before paying for a ticket.
I don't understand the rationale behind delayed cast announcements, not just here but at any theatres. I get that they want to make sure they have contracts signed first, but otherwise why keep the actors' identities a secret, particularly when they're already rehearsing?
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Post by lynette on Oct 23, 2021 14:30:58 GMT
The novelty wore off for me a while ago. The part of ‘original’ they didn't seem to understand was the size of the general population. I suppose the arty folk of yore could happily sit in such an auditorium but sadly I cannot. I loved the candle lit stuff and the standard of productions was usually very good, but I won’t be going there again.
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Post by Jan on Oct 24, 2021 14:30:00 GMT
The novelty wore off for me a while ago. The part of ‘original’ they didn't seem to understand was the size of the general population. I suppose the arty folk of yore could happily sit in such an auditorium but sadly I cannot. I loved the candle lit stuff and the standard of productions was usually very good, but I won’t be going there again. The prices certainly aren't authentic. The cost of attending the first indoor theatres was around 6d (old pence). Accounting for inflation that is around £8 today. So they are charging 10x as much. So the seats should be 10x more comfortable. |
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