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Post by lynette on Aug 24, 2023 20:59:42 GMT
The Empress: there isn’t a separate thread for this and I don’t think it is worth starting one. It is transferring to the Lyric Hammersmith I think but it isn’t worth the detour. It has not worn well over the last ten years either dramatically or thematically.
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Post by lynette on Aug 19, 2023 18:34:45 GMT
It’s the hols and we are becoming more and more French in one respect - we abandon the capital in August.
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Post by lynette on Aug 19, 2023 18:33:23 GMT
So talk about this not selling as well as it should. Hmm, just watched the trailer they sent to me by email. Terrible. If I didn’t know different then I would think twice about booking this on the trailer.
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Post by lynette on Aug 17, 2023 2:13:42 GMT
Might catch a midweek matinee of this. Are both actors scheduled to be on for all performances? They’d better be.
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Post by lynette on Aug 17, 2023 2:12:37 GMT
James Graham is probably rewriting as we speak. So i might see a completely different version at the Prince Edward? 😂
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Post by lynette on Aug 16, 2023 15:48:20 GMT
If, if and if the gals win the Cup on Sunday, future performances will be poignant indeed.
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Post by lynette on Aug 16, 2023 15:46:19 GMT
Would like to see this but the venue puts me off. Those seats are awful and literally have no legroom. I booked end of a row so hoping legs will be ok stretched sideways. I wasn’t going to book but come on, Allam and Mc Kellen, eh?
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Post by lynette on Aug 16, 2023 15:44:22 GMT
I think people have forgotten that the UK being where it is, gets varied weather patterns throughout the year. The summers are no continuously anything, but characterised by hot days, weeks and then rainy, chilly ones and the winters can be very cold or just cold or sometimes bright and almost not cold. It’s not like so much of the rest of the world where temps stay the same for each season. I honestly think people don’t understand that. ( she ducks behind the sofa )
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Post by lynette on Aug 16, 2023 15:40:14 GMT
I’ll be honest, I prob won’t go to that venue again because the merch is ridiculously priced , the cafe is very limited, the seating not for me really and the offering I saw , the Hockney was ok but overpriced and the audio was unclear. ( also kiddies distracting as I’ve said ) and the way down it is like walking into a plywood box. The loos pass just. It has been underdeveloped, on the cheap but charging max prices.
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Post by lynette on Aug 13, 2023 14:38:09 GMT
Classical pianist Yuja Wang is going to perform “six intimate concerts” at Lightroom on September 28, 29, and 30 (two hour-long concerts each night, at 7 pm and 9 pm). She will play “a repertoire of pieces inspired by her response to David Hockney’s artworks.” (https://lightroom.uk/whats-on/lightroom-live-yuja-hockney/ ) Seated tickets cost £49.50, standing tickets are £29.50 (Upper Gallery) and £19.50 (Lower Gallery). The event sounds like it could be a little “out there”, but if I were in London I would jump at the chance to hear Wang at those prices, which are considerably less than she commands when she plays Carnegie Hall (where her concerts are always sold out anyway). They will either not have the Hockney playing at the same time or edit it cos there is considerable sound all through plus his own commentary.
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Post by lynette on Aug 10, 2023 22:41:30 GMT
All mention of RSC 37 project seems to have vnished. is this still happening Is this the new play thing? Yes it is. Eric W will be in charge of it.
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Post by lynette on Aug 10, 2023 22:39:01 GMT
Brave… I’m reluctant to engage with the offender. At Dear England a couple came in just before the start, the wrong way. FOH should really sharpen up on this imo. Meant that my OH and I had to get up and move out of our aisle seats. When I mumbled about the other way, he said loudly something along the lines of what am I making a fuss about. Well, he could see that OH has trouble getting up so at least a very o sorry would have sufficed. Small first world problem but actually first time anyone had responded like that in my experience and the people next to me were also astonished. I’d confused. Shouldn’t the person trying to get to their seat be the one posting about bad behaviour, not you? Right to be confused. I am the grumpy ‘aged person’ who says go the other way but this person raised his voice to me. Ah, i deserved it, didn’t I? But he could so easily have seen he should have gone the other way, the difficulty of OH getting up ( we always wait ) and it was just a min before the start. No excuses, Lynette, you are a disgrace to the theatre going public and need a retraining course on how to behave.
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Post by lynette on Aug 8, 2023 17:38:12 GMT
I was told D is front row. I was hesitant but booked it. At the NT the audience was reverently quiet. I’m not expecting more than maybe a tad more reaction in the West End.
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Post by lynette on Aug 8, 2023 17:35:18 GMT
Sher was an excellent Falstaff. The anecdote is in Doran’s book and I do believe it.
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Post by lynette on Aug 8, 2023 17:23:50 GMT
Brave… I’m reluctant to engage with the offender. At Dear England a couple came in just before the start, the wrong way. FOH should really sharpen up on this imo. Meant that my OH and I had to get up and move out of our aisle seats. When I mumbled about the other way, he said loudly something along the lines of what am I making a fuss about. Well, he could see that OH has trouble getting up so at least a very o sorry would have sufficed. Small first world problem but actually first time anyone had responded like that in my experience and the people next to me were also astonished.
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Post by lynette on Aug 7, 2023 11:59:09 GMT
Taking my Y11s to see this in September. The reviews focusing on Macbeth's (lack of) clothing makes me nervous... Come one, that will make it even more memorable.
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Post by lynette on Aug 7, 2023 11:58:10 GMT
The Olivier is 1150 seats so an increase to a 1600-1700 seat theatre isn't a huge jump. Streetcar went from the 325 seat Almeida to the 1000 seat Phoenix and Death of the Salesman a few years back when from the Young Vic to the Piccadilly. It's 1,700 i.e. 50% increase in capacity and considerably more in gross. More like a stadium which will enhance the drama I think. I have seen it at the NT, well worth going to and I will go again.
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Post by lynette on Aug 6, 2023 23:32:57 GMT
Just seen a post on Twitter that would indicate today's matinee was abandoned after 15 minutes Wimps 🤣
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Post by lynette on Aug 6, 2023 23:29:41 GMT
Reviewer I read surpassed himself with ‘his torso more well defined than his verse speaking’ or someat like that. Might get more people in…
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Post by lynette on Aug 6, 2023 23:26:53 GMT
Going to US?
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Post by lynette on Aug 2, 2023 20:44:50 GMT
I enjoyed this, a good intro to Hockney’s work. But both times I’ve been ( with different guests) there were little toddler and younger kidlets there. Quite a few of them. So crying and so on making it hard to hear the commentary and distracting. It seems to be a regular parent and kiddie venue. Makes me sound like a real grouch but also I’m wondering if the flashing visions are actually a good idea for little ones. It isn’t a cheap outing.
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Post by lynette on Aug 1, 2023 13:04:44 GMT
So far, objections are the smell, the getting up and down, and yes, the disruption with enebriated persons. So tell me, part from the profit the bar makes, what are the pros for alcohol in theatres. Not saying outside, or afterwards.. just inside auditorium.
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Post by lynette on Aug 1, 2023 13:00:12 GMT
Given the celebs have likely already started training, or will be starting any day now, I think Stuart Broad is unlikely, this year at least. Stuart Broad don’t have to revitalise his career yet. 😁
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Post by lynette on Jul 31, 2023 12:36:23 GMT
When did it become more than ok, but actually de rigeur to take alcohol into the theatre auditorium? I’ve sat next to blokes with a pint in each hand! Water in a bottle for a cough yes, and a drink in the interval in the foyer or even in your seat but all through a show? So that’s my ‘alf pennyworth
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Post by lynette on Jul 29, 2023 17:15:40 GMT
I thought the message was that post Empire, post WWI and II, post the huge upswing in living standards and the cultural domination of the 60s ( ‘66 football win) , and now post brexit and everything else.. England should accept it isn’t Number One nation. Graham is addressing the residual ‘look at the red places on the world map in every classroom’ generation and perhaps that BBC Olympic game show, aren’t we wonderful thing and asking us to see that we are now diverse racially and ethnically and performing on most stages round about the middle of the table level. Sport does show this up. If anything, a bit ‘soft’; there was a bloke on the telly talking about the cricket saying of course it is the winning that matters. Well, of course, it is. Graham is trying to remove the entitlement from the England ethos.
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