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Post by zahidf on Sept 24, 2021 12:51:29 GMT
I thought it was great, and the cast wonderful
I had a pillar seat which was upgraded to nearer the front of stalls. Looks like its selling very poorly, which is a shame, as i enjoyed it a lot
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Post by zahidf on Sept 24, 2021 9:15:07 GMT
Front row isnt on sale, so ill wait for the Rush tickers inevitable for this one!
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Post by zahidf on Sept 24, 2021 8:53:13 GMT
I didn't see this summer's Romeo and Juliet, but I think it focused on teenage mental health and had trigger warning and helpline numbers. Is that the kind of thing that's meant by woke? I would have loved to see it, and I'm always interested in productions that make modern parallels. But I accept it's not everyone's preference. I don't go to the Globe often, mainly because the ticket prices are too high for me. I might be wrong, but I get the impression that their bread and butter is school parties and tourists, which is fine if that means they can break even. My children and friends' children have all been on trips there to see a play and often there's a tour and workshop as well. They seem to be really popular with students and teachers from what I hear. So perhaps their productions are aimed at maximising accessibility to GCSE/A Level students? I'm not saying Shakespeare has to have modern parallels spelled out in order to engage teenagers, but I have seen this approach work with my own children. I appreciate as you say its not for everyone, but doing that for Romeo and Juliet is perfectly fine nowadays. If it helps people, then i don't understand the criticism of it being overly woke I normally just get the standing tickets myself. I went to midsummers and will be going to the comedy store players in October and maybe 12th night. Ive just seen most Shakespeares a million times by now, so it needs an interesting cast or concept to pull me in now
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Post by zahidf on Sept 24, 2021 8:06:01 GMT
it has been taken over by Woke HQ and the radical left. Can I ask what that means in terms of the plays at the globe? I've not been there in a few years. Yeah i get a bit confused when plays are criticised as woke or as that being a reason why they aren't selling well.... Maybe stuff like Shrew and Merchant of Venice having their misogyny/anti Semitism put into a more modern context?
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Post by zahidf on Sept 23, 2021 23:29:42 GMT
Royal Court production was great. Will definitely look at this one price wise
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Post by zahidf on Sept 23, 2021 12:45:01 GMT
Ah thats a shame. But the timing of lockdown for a new theatre was very bad
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Post by zahidf on Sept 23, 2021 12:43:59 GMT
I think its good its opening it up to more comedy and music shows. I think the problem is just that its very well done Shakespeare shows without any big names. But then, its always been a bit like that i think
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Post by zahidf on Sept 23, 2021 10:09:52 GMT
What timing!
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Post by zahidf on Sept 18, 2021 13:55:51 GMT
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Post by zahidf on Sept 17, 2021 12:42:17 GMT
It's not 100k. It's 1 in 40 people who catch covid, not 1 in 40 in the general population. So the actual number will be a lot lower. Around 7.3 million people have caught it, so 1 in 40 of those would be around 180 thousand. Fair enough, but in terms of society, its not really enough to justify restrictions
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Post by zahidf on Sept 17, 2021 11:40:53 GMT
What is the point of it being mandatory on the tubes yet none of the staff have the power to enforce it. I've seen at some larger stations police officers standing outside telling people to put their masks on as they enter, which is something. I guess they can say it's mandatory on the tube and hope that that is enough to get as many people as possible to wear them. You'll never get everyone though. I believe it's just tubes and theatres where they are mandatory now isn't it? It's not legally mandatory in the theatre. It's not legally mandatory on the tube either, only punishment for not wearing it is to be barred entry
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Post by zahidf on Sept 17, 2021 11:39:48 GMT
1 in 40 of people testing positive is still a major issue. That’s still over 100k. It's not 100k. It's 1 in 40 people who catch covid, not 1 in 40 in the general population. So the actual number will be a lot lower.
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Post by zahidf on Sept 17, 2021 10:25:13 GMT
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Post by zahidf on Sept 16, 2021 15:17:11 GMT
8th day of reduced cases... Since its been 15 days since schools went back, no after school bounce fingers crossed
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Post by zahidf on Sept 15, 2021 10:52:07 GMT
The society we now live in with it's political correctness and people's freedom to do as they please will not solve the covid issue. Personally I agree with vaccine passports and I think everyone does have a responsibility to get vaccinated to protect themselves and others. If they choose not to that is their business, but if they are not bothered about their part in spreading covid then they should not have some of the benefits such as attending mass gatherings indoors. There are many people who can't get the vaccine because of their religion or for medical reasons. You are excluding a huge amount of the population. I am not calling you this, but vaccine passports are borderline racist! Do you really want to live in a country that segregates people like that? I know I don't. Religious? There are no religious reasons to refuse a vaccine.
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Post by zahidf on Sept 14, 2021 15:19:31 GMT
Big cases falls across the entire country again.
UK: 37,489 -> 26,628 (-29.0%) England: 27,545 -> 19,739 (-28.3%) Scotland: 5,692 -> 3,375 (-40.7%) NI: 1,748 -> 1,590 (-9.0%) Wales: 2,504 -> 1,924 (-23.1%)
Just to counter the gloom on here. 6th Day of reductions
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Post by zahidf on Sept 14, 2021 10:27:07 GMT
Too rich for my blood. Hopefully they do rush tickets
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Post by zahidf on Sept 11, 2021 18:11:09 GMT
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Post by zahidf on Sept 10, 2021 10:51:05 GMT
Those of you who have already seen Indecent, how did you feel about the covid policy at the Menier? I would love to see this play, but am concerned about the space restrictions and the snugness at the theatre, it is really impossible to distance from your neighbour. From the website, their covid precautions don't seem to be brilliant. How did people feel about it, did you feel comfortable there? TIA. Good with making people wear masks. But it's back to normal in terms of no space between people.
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Post by zahidf on Sept 10, 2021 9:59:40 GMT
Really sad news.
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Post by zahidf on Sept 10, 2021 5:57:35 GMT
I thought this was great! Well worth a watch
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Post by zahidf on Sept 9, 2021 13:36:49 GMT
Looks like an interesting season overall.
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Post by zahidf on Sept 7, 2021 15:29:42 GMT
Not really: it's been going up and down since Jy 19th. Once you take into account the two-week delay before the effects of any change are reflected in the cases, the trend is almost entirely up. Perhaps you should look at the NHS instead of making assertions like that. I've been in intermittent pain for over a year waiting for surgery that might now happen next summer. Last year I was told it would be about six months. It's September. Guess how well that's going.
When I went to the doctor a couple of weeks ago everyone was thoroughly exhausted and demoralised. I had to walk round the place half naked with an octopus of ECG leads dangling from me because the big electrocardiogram had broken down and they couldn't get it working so they had to get me to the small one that had also broken down but could occasionally be coaxed into life. And that was all they had, with no idea when someone would be available even to see what was wrong, let alone get the parts to fix anything.
And even if the NHS is managing to cope now, how long do you think it can carry on? Right now 1 in every 276 people is infected. Surely you can't think it'll stay that way? That's not how diseases work. If we don't get the reproduction rate of this disease below 1 then it'll reach 1 in 200, then 1 in 100, then 1 in 50... How is the NHS going to cope with that?
And no, I'm not exaggerating. That's what a reproduction rate greater than one means. It means the disease is not self-limiting: it can only infect more and more people and it can't slow down until a lack of people to infect slows it down.
I didn't make any proposal. I was just saying how things are. We control this disease or it controls us, whether people stand for it or not. If vaccination doesn't do the job of controlling the spread — and I'm still hopeful that may yet happen if enough young people get their shots — then something else will need to, and for that there are only three options:
1) we reintroduce some restrictions until the cases fall to manageable levels
2) the increasing case rate scares people into imposing restrictions on themselves 3) things get much worse
This one: 4) stamp our feet until we get what we want isn't going to work. It never does.
R Rate isnt over 1. Its between 0.9-1.1. The option 4) is that we reach herd immunity when the unvaxxed get infected and recover, so the cases go down naturally ( like it did earlier this summer). Its a fallacy to say the only way forward is restrictions
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Post by zahidf on Sept 7, 2021 11:58:53 GMT
Covid will not go away, and so the way the NHS is funded needs to be reviewed to ensure that we have the resources to deal with the virus going forward. Covid is not going to go away, but that doesn't mean it has to stay at the current level.
The current level is very obviously unsustainable. Cases are still rising, which means that the vaccination programme hasn't yet caught up with the transmission opportunities created by the complete relaxation of restrictions. Deaths are the highest they've been for five months. The NHS is swamped and can't deal with anything but the most serious cases. And the solution is absolutely not to sit back and throw money at the problem (from where?) as if there's nothing else we can do.
If we can get the number of cases right down then all the other problems just go away. Fewer cases mean less exposure for everyone, making us all safer. Fewer cases make people more confident about going out, helping businesses recover. Fewer cases take the load off the NHS, allowing non-critical patients to be treated, giving the staff a very much needed break from the pressure, and preventing shortages of essential equipment. Fewer cases make it easier to identify and deal with outbreak hotspots, and if a local lockdown is required to handle such an outbreak then fewer cases make it easier for the government to provide support. It's like a fire: the smaller it is the easier it is to keep it small. Letting it spread and saying "This is how we live now" is the worst possible approach.
Not really: it's been going up and down since Jy 19th. The NHS isn't 'swamped' except in a few places. Your proposal won't really work unless it's for 2-3 months, which double vaxxed people simply won't go for.
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Post by zahidf on Sept 7, 2021 7:30:39 GMT
The website, which previously stated tickets were going on sale this month, now says the release is TBD. I hope the plan is still to open this in two months’ time, it seems late in the day for tickets to be selling, but then again I’ve not booked for the Almeida before so that could well be common practice? They did the same with Macbeth: maybe they are waiting to see if they have to extend Macbeth?
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Post by zahidf on Sept 7, 2021 7:28:28 GMT
They can close venues of course, but they can forget about people not seeing their friends/family going forward
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Post by zahidf on Sept 1, 2021 13:40:46 GMT
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Post by zahidf on Sept 1, 2021 6:36:47 GMT
If its severe enough to get you in hospital, the yes you're more likely to have long term issues. Of course the percentage of people hospitalised is relatively low, and that was pre-vaccine, so the evidence links up
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Post by zahidf on Aug 31, 2021 13:34:03 GMT
Long Covid a lot lower than initially estimated
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Post by zahidf on Aug 30, 2021 19:27:37 GMT
Fwiw no theatre I've been to in the last 2 months have stuck to staggered entrances. So I'd just turn-up 5/10 mins beforehand to get in if you're worried
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