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Post by harlow on Jul 25, 2017 16:24:46 GMT
I paid £15, matinee price, and have received the email moving me to row A. The same for me.
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Post by harlow on Jul 19, 2017 9:21:36 GMT
If anyone is having trouble booking for Albion when you get through and try and choose a seat - (every time I clicked on stalls it would throw me back out saying it wasn't available) if you click below on "select best available" and then choose the price you want tickets in the stalls will miraculously appear.
Odd thing - but hopefully that will help someone.
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Post by harlow on Jul 15, 2017 16:41:01 GMT
Anyone else finding that booking both parts of the Inheritance plus one other is not allowing for the 20% saver price? Yes, me, nine posts above yours! Because the 2-play days are being sold on one ticket it's obviously counting them as one show. Ah sorry thought that was just the 2 play days - I was trying to book on separate days.
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Post by harlow on Jul 15, 2017 15:50:47 GMT
Anyone else finding that booking both parts of the Inheritance plus one other is not allowing for the 20% saver price?
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Post by harlow on Jul 13, 2017 23:46:53 GMT
Transferring next year at the Lyric - hoping to catch it there.
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Post by harlow on Jul 8, 2017 16:58:30 GMT
The Wig Out reading was spectacular. 2 hours 10 with an interval, and semi-staged with costumes, costume changes, songs, dance routines (including Jonjo chair-dancing in sparkly platforms!). Extraordinary that they managed to do all that in one day of rehearsal and in no way a "reading." Some of the actors were even off-book! Ha! Having seen the Royal Court Theatre production, I couldn't imagine how Wig Out could possibly work as an unstaged reading. Absolutely loved Wig Out - Jonjo was definitely a highlight but thought everyone bought so much joy and life to it. Definitely not your standard "reading"! The atmosphere in the room was really wonderful - I had originally not booked for this one as I wondered how on earth they would manage this play as a reading but I was so excited by the cast that I decided to chance it, so glad I did.
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Post by harlow on Jul 4, 2017 20:41:07 GMT
He's also performing as part of Queers at the Old Vic later in July.
AiA not keeping him busy enough?
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Post by harlow on Jul 3, 2017 19:21:38 GMT
I do love George MacKay and SRB is always a pleasure but I was also expecting something a little more exciting - probably because all the others were announced and this left out so I kept dreaming of possibilities. I am still going - it's a play that holds a special place in my heart - but can't help but think there were more surprises in the other casts. Don't know if I would do a 6 hour journey for it emi..
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Post by harlow on Jul 3, 2017 16:38:32 GMT
FINALLY!!
BENT Simon Russell Beale (as predicted), along with George MacKay, Paapa Essiedu, Adrian Grove, John Pfumojena, Pip Torrens
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Post by harlow on Jul 3, 2017 11:50:43 GMT
I can't take this waiting....
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Post by harlow on Jul 1, 2017 23:46:49 GMT
All the cast is up on the NT site now except for Bent
Along with the two above there is
Certain Young Men Jonathan Bailey, Ben Batt, Oliver Chris, Billy Howle, Lorne MacFadyen, Stephen Rashbrook, Brian Vernel, Toby Wharton
Wig Out! Arun Blair-Mangat, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Tunji Kasim, Alexia Khadime, Kadiff Kirwan, Jonjo O'Neill, Abiona Omonua, Tom Rhys Harries, Ukweli Roach, Cat Simmons, Craig Stein
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Post by harlow on Jun 16, 2017 19:59:14 GMT
Would have loved to see this - but I was too slow. All sold out.
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Post by harlow on May 18, 2017 23:54:29 GMT
I really enjoyed this when I saw it in Oxford - but it isn't really a play as such. It's beautifully written and will definitely appeal to fans of poetry. It is as David J says mostly a monologue of reminiscence (interjected by the recitation of Betjeman's poetry) but Edward Fox lends it a subtle grace and real warmth. I wasn't a huge fan of Betjeman when I'd studied him at university and went to this on the strength of Fox whose charisma really carries it. I think if you go into it expecting theatre you will be disappointed, there is very little by way of movement or mise en scene, but if you are a lover of words it is quite compelling.
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Post by harlow on May 10, 2017 13:45:34 GMT
This week it's Monday - Nell Gwynn (The Globe) Tuesday - The Ferryman (Royal Court) Wednesday - A Lie of the Mind (Southwark Playhouse) Friday - Life of Galileo (Young Vic) Saturday - Gabriel (Greenwich Theatre)
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Post by harlow on May 3, 2017 0:22:55 GMT
Mark Rylance at The Ferryman tonight and Alicia Vikander last week at Obsession
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Post by harlow on Apr 29, 2017 15:07:30 GMT
As I'm getting ready to say farewell tonight to a show that's been a huge part of my life for the past 7/8 months I started thinking about how we get so attached to this finite medium - for even when we love a play and might see a revival of it, it will probably have very little in common with the productions we may have seen before.
For most of us we see a production once or twice unless we work on it, it is an artform we cannot keep any real hold of. By its very nature, every performance of every production is different and we can never really have it more than once. So my question is - what experience did you find hard to let go of? Which do you still think about?
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Post by harlow on Apr 19, 2017 9:16:33 GMT
I tried the phone number too with no avail - I have now been redirected to the third queue I've been in, each time I arrive at the front of the queue I am either "paused" or redirected to another queue.
Well this is a fantastic experience....
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Post by harlow on Apr 19, 2017 0:51:11 GMT
Thanks for the info - I was also diverted to the queue page after a quick glimpse at the poster for Young Marx. I think the first three productions look interesting though I would like to know the writers behind Young Marx and Nightfall (unless this is the Joanna Murray-Smith play?) as that's usually what I base my decisions on.
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Post by harlow on Apr 15, 2017 11:57:25 GMT
At the Peter Shaffer memorial I had the unfortunate displeasure of sitting next to a girl who chewed incessantly on her fingernails - complete with horrid squelching noises - for almost the ENTIRE show. I was surprised to see she still had fingers left by the end.
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Post by harlow on Apr 15, 2017 11:55:21 GMT
Now they are offering half price membership I would be tempted had there been any information about what will be on other than Julius Caesar. Or an idea of what the "special Monday events" are. I don't imagine they could have many people joining as members so far.
Still - following updates with curiosity.
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Post by harlow on Apr 15, 2017 11:46:48 GMT
I had thought to miss this although I'm interested to see a new James Graham after This House but Richard Coyle and Bertie Carvel tipped it for me. Booked.
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Post by harlow on Apr 15, 2017 11:43:49 GMT
Benedict Cumberbatch at Travesties on Saturday night and Maggie Smith at Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf at yesterday's matinee I wasn't there, but I heard that Derek Jacobi was with Maggie Smith. I'm afraid you missed him. Yes he was there too Embarrassed that I forgot to say. Slightly rubbish half information!
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Post by harlow on Apr 13, 2017 23:24:26 GMT
Benedict Cumberbatch at Travesties on Saturday night and Maggie Smith at Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf at yesterday's matinee
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