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I also watched tonight and I’m not sure about this one. Not helped that because of the exorbitant pricing I went for front of the balcony, and bloody hell it is high up there, I’m not usually one for drama about heights but I honestly did not feel safe getting to my seat so spent the first 20 minutes still with a high level
If anxiety from that. The prices really are shockingly high at this theatre, and the seating shockingly bad in the areas I’ve tried so far.

The play itself - I think most of the criticisms of it - generally that it’s not actually shocking or surprising when it’s meant to
be, because we’ve all seen countless similar stories of how the Nazis did what they did by now, and it’s our history, our grandparents and great grandparents stories. But this was written 41 years ago now - the war ended 36 years before that - so 41 years ago perhaps we weren’t as “used” to this whole idea, and the audience was either there when it happened or it was their parents, they were that much closer to these events. At the time it was written it may not have seemed so unsubtle and predictable.

The acting was superb, and I’m glad I saw DT. All 3 of them gave very impressive performances, the split-second switching between characters/scenes/internal monologue/memories and current scenes was very well done every time. You’re definitely aware you are in the presence of great actors watching them do their thing.

Maybe this has been playing long enough now that it’s reasonable for discussion of the plot in more detail on here without if being considered a spoiler? I have questions about the ending.

I haven’t seen this, but its fairly common or even these days almost the default in the Olivier and Lyttelton for the actors to have microphones. I realise that the theatre acoustics and ability to project should be enough, but particularly with other sound effects to be heard over or just quality of sound, I think microphones are fine.

People say this every year and there's not the slightest shred of evidence that the pro brings in the votes to any significant extent.

Anton went out early plenty of times, Giovanni went out early this series, Oti with Ugo etc.

The Spoiler has been updated to say Tony withdrew with a pulled hamstring- not clear if he did the dance-off at all, or stopped in the middle. In either case, he was in the bottom two, so did the Arsenal fans stop voting for him or did the message go out that he'd had enough?!

I just finished binging the whole thing. I agree that Imelda Staunton has HM's voice down cold. Elizabeth Dubiki had Diana's Sloan Ranger drawl, along with her mannerisms down to a tee. Being long and lanky, there were times it was hard to tell it wasn't the real Princess - kind of uncanny. I know the red tops were screaming bloody murder claiming that telly Charles was plotting to make the Queen abdicate. Didn't come off like that to me. It was more sympathetic to Charles, Camilla, and William than I expected. The scene where young William had to show Granny how to use the remote for the new satellite service was so familiar and so funny. To be honest, I was watching for Timothy Dalton. Sad he was only in a single episode - I've been following his career since the early 80s. His scenes with Leslie Manville were lovely. I will also admit to fast forwarding through most of the Diana/Bashir stuff since I obviously lived through those years and anyone who was around for the original Panarama interview saw endless replays of segments on the news in those days. Bored of it now. I think they easily could have kept Tobias Menzies and Olivia Coleman for this series, because Staunton and Jonathan Pryce both looked at least ten to 15 years older than the royals were meant to be, IMO. I felt as if Pryce made a good elderly Philip, but Philip was not quite in his dotage in the 90s. I enjoyed seeing flashbacks with actors from the first couple of series, but I feel as if the writing isn't as good as it was originally. I also find myself mentally differentiating between my memories of what really happened and the show version. Am I the only one wondering why Michael Sheen wasn't called - I'm so used to him being Blair in the Morgan-verse.

Yes, but not usually during the performance for individual arias or passages; they normally wait until the end and save their boos for the conductor or the director during the curtain call. I've never experienced it during a performance.