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Post by Latecomer on Dec 3, 2016 20:00:00 GMT
It always gets so boring by this stage...suddenly, just when you are into it all, there is no-one much left! Liked Danny and Claudia tonight...the rest were quite meh.....getting bored with Judge Rinder...we know you love to dance but somehow it's lost the novelty value and what was quite sweet now feels like a line....
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Post by Latecomer on Dec 1, 2016 19:03:31 GMT
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Post by Latecomer on Nov 30, 2016 15:13:19 GMT
Been on the phone a while. So tried website. No decent seats for the performances I wanted and then when I did click a couple of tix for May, they wouldn't let me add to basket. How much do I want to see these plays, Limehouse and Uri? Not that much. Well, do enjoy all you young things.....good luck with understanding Limehouse, prob as easy to grasp as Henry VI part One. I'm not bitter. Noooooo! I thought at least if they had scrapped the Front Row Scheme I could console myself with the thought that Lynette was actually getting to sit there! This is just wrong on so many levels! Bring back the days when they sent out the booking forms by post and you had to give 3 different possible dates, enclose a blank cheque (with maximum amount specified?) and then hurry to the post box and send back first class and they put you in order of received forms.....it wasn't so very long ago! Plus always used to get front facing stalls and membership was only £30! |
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Post by Latecomer on Nov 28, 2016 12:06:38 GMT
Have bought a couple of sets of nice central £10 seats as Xmas gifts - and one for me of course Me too! ☺ |
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Post by Latecomer on Nov 27, 2016 12:55:13 GMT
I remember being worried that Jacobi was actually going to die as he looked so unwell at the end....it rather distracted me from the actual play!!!! His acting was so good he had me concerned! |
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Post by Latecomer on Nov 23, 2016 12:52:34 GMT
Found this in my booking email from them: Do feel free to contact the Ticketing team on 0333 320 1663 or email customers@kxtickets.com for further information. Thanks xander! Wouldn't resell or refund as still good availability but have swapped for 17th Dec so hoping to make it then! Anyone else going then? |
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Post by Latecomer on Nov 23, 2016 11:04:34 GMT
I am trying to return a ticket for this Saturday's trilogy day (£50 ticket), due to husband illness, but having no joy getting through on the phone....anyone got any suggestions? Can't seem to find an email address for them!
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Post by Latecomer on Nov 22, 2016 12:45:27 GMT
Yes, £67.50 for Upper Circle when the Stalls are £70 is rather cheeky, I think. I seem to remember them being £45 when they first went on sale - should have booked 'em back then! Clearly they've decided to increase the middle bands to almost-top-price instead of increasing the top price. Hope you get lucky in Friday Forty! |
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Post by Latecomer on Nov 22, 2016 12:25:10 GMT
Pricing a bit weird now...they have upped the prices for the middling bands by £5 but kept the top price £140.....
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Post by Latecomer on Nov 21, 2016 21:15:37 GMT
A Raisin in the Sun, please!!!!!! Loved the play when I read it in the summer. Have got some great ideas for cast and a good director who should be brought on board for this too Saw a rehearsed reading of it at Oxford Playhouse last year and it was great! |
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Post by Latecomer on Nov 21, 2016 15:52:48 GMT
Love it when people who've made about 60 posts start demanding that people who've made over 500 should be banned. How many of his 500 posts have added anything to this site?
See post above by me. |
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Post by Latecomer on Nov 21, 2016 14:31:35 GMT
Love it when people who've made about 60 posts start demanding that people who've made over 500 should be banned. Agreed! Leave Parsley alone! I don't always agree with his opinions and some of them are a bit blunt but I have booked more than one show on the basis that he liked it and have never regretted it! If you are annoyed that he likes so little, just move on to the next post! |
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Post by Latecomer on Nov 21, 2016 11:49:44 GMT
King Lear with Glenda on Wed matinee, Donmar trilogy all Saturday! |
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Post by Latecomer on Nov 19, 2016 21:19:09 GMT
I enjoyed this a lot, even as I kept turning to my daughter in each interval with a look of bemused puzzlement! The theatre was about 3/4 full...ridiculous pricing on ATG. £85 a ticket for the terrible 2nd row that has no rake to speak of from the 1st row....and my seat B5, 3rd row side priced at £65 (I paid a far more reasonable £35 - another £10 for TheatreTix code) Ed Harris is great - great voice, great timing, great command of the stage. Get in early to see him sit on the sofa watching TV for 15mins.... Oh and thanks to the people behind me, who whispered their various theories of what was going to happen loudly near the end....IF YOUR FRIEND CAN HEAR IT SO CAN I! And the man who received multiple text alerts and obviously didn't know how to switch his phone off, so had to leave instead. Not disruptive atall. |
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Post by Latecomer on Nov 18, 2016 11:37:20 GMT
Cracked and booked for tomorrow matinee....£35 ticket from TodayTix row B and used code helpfully provided in General Thread for another £10 off....I was convinced when I realised Ed Harris is the maninblack in Westworld TV series! |
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Post by Latecomer on Nov 16, 2016 14:31:31 GMT
I'm not unhappy the scheme has finished. As a supporter I used to book well in advance and hand over my dosh thinking that lovely young people would be encouraged to visit the theatre But when I went I found that my tix were back row and often corners whilst people of my age were in the best seats. They obviously had the time and the nimble fingers to snap up front row seats on a Monday morning or had someone who did it for them. I may have mentioned this gripe once or twice. I used to say that young people with better hearing and eyesight not to mention supple knees could be accommodated upstairs. And I realise that I'm treading on toes here because you don't have to be young to need a cheap tic. But I assumed the scheme was for under 25 s or so. So what with that and unappealing plays ( apart from the gals' Shakespeare) I haven't been to the Donmar lately. I will book for the new season. Maybe not the Gang of Four - painful. I'm thinking that even a slight teetering of regular support can affect a theatre's policy. Globe ? ...or maybe Barclays just changed their ideas. I always used my nimble fingers to get front row seats for everything and then started calling them "Lynette's seats" to myself and peering behind me to catch a glimpse of the real Lynette!!!! I am sad it is ending but it was too good to be true.....it did mean I saw practically everything at the Donmar but probably won't be able to afford to now....hey ho. |
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Post by Latecomer on Nov 11, 2016 15:54:47 GMT
It is GREAT! A real theatrical experience! |
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Post by Latecomer on Nov 11, 2016 15:20:33 GMT
Ticket alert!!!! Seems to be loads of seats for sale now for Wed 25th January 2017...added performance? |
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Post by Latecomer on Nov 9, 2016 20:00:27 GMT
Well this was splendid! Seemed right to be seeing it on the day Trump was elected and there was a point in the play where the whole audience groaned (as one of the characters was saying a democrat would soon be elected and then things would get better!)
I am so glad I saw it...absorbing, fascinating play and performances from all the actors were stunning!
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Post by Latecomer on Nov 6, 2016 15:36:02 GMT
So sorry to hear about your horrible experience. I am glad Union Theatre were kind....it makes all the difference when you are going through hard times. Hope you are coping ok.
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Post by Latecomer on Nov 6, 2016 15:28:55 GMT
Thanks Burly, will do - I've been lurking for so long I've shocked myself that this is my first post! I wouldn't read a synopsis....I love coming to Shakespeare all fresh and not knowing the story! The first time I saw Lear was brilliant.....I had no idea what was coming! Welcome to the board! |
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Post by Latecomer on Nov 5, 2016 14:59:07 GMT
I saw Birch's play Revolt at Stratford and was very taken with it....I liked the poetry of it. I have booked a cheap circle slip on the basis that maybe it won't matter if I can't see everything!!! And my bank balance can only stand so much booking before Christmas!
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Post by Latecomer on Nov 4, 2016 13:21:48 GMT
{Spoiler - click to view}
You see I took it as things very bad...a bit like my current intermittent 4G coverage...and then new energy source just developed BUT power again in foreign hands.....this time China as the "colonial power" and also mining the moon...and who owns that?!!!! I agree, a bit clunky but lord knows what will happen when they work out what happens with dark matter etc! |
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Post by Latecomer on Nov 4, 2016 12:45:36 GMT
Plays about energy are always hard as we don't know how things will develop...and don't tell me it will all be renewables in the future because, to be honest, we could be fully renewable now (particularly with hydro electric dams ) but we seem to have just commissioned a new nuclear power station for not very compelling reasons! So....you suspend disbelief and talk about the big issues..... {Spoiler - click to view}
I liked the whole "feminist" theme running through the play...I liked that it tried to deal with the ambition of women and was it better to have the career and vision than settle for love and a family? What is freedom? How do we want to live our lives? What makes us happy? Do we have the right to feel we can "help" other countries and what makes us right? Why should they feel grateful? If they don't feel grateful does this make us angry?
For me this play was all about power - who has it and how will it change in the future. I think our country will have to get poorer as the word "levels up" and I think that is right but how do we get there?
As you can see, one play got me thinking!
Plus I loved the lighting and when they turned on the oil lamp it was great!
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Post by Latecomer on Nov 4, 2016 10:50:23 GMT
Damn, I knew that went too well - I've only gone and double-booked myself with Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf!! Chances of them letting me exchange?? They are usually quite lovely about exchanging recently...they did charge me £2 but couldn't have been more helpful |
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