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Post by maggiem on Dec 22, 2016 15:13:43 GMT
I have booked this for the matinee on Sat 4th February. Really looking forward to it now!
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Post by drmaplewood on Dec 31, 2016 8:35:44 GMT
Can someone tell me what was drawn on at the end? I was far back and couldn't make it out. Thanks.
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Post by peggs on Dec 31, 2016 18:00:22 GMT
Right at the end? Or do you mean the bit when it gets drawn on?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2016 18:12:35 GMT
Well. Not sure why it's seen as a bit of a classic but however slight, it is rather amusing. Nice performances from all three but it's Tim Key's show and boy, does he steal it. His is the nicest character by far (the other two are prats really) and he's marvellous in it as the only genuine one, there were audible "awwwww"s all round the stalls during the performance. He also gets this glorious speech which goes on forever and gets a deserved round of applause. The play isn't bad but it's worth it for Tim Key.
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Post by Latecomer on Dec 31, 2016 18:50:57 GMT
Can someone tell me what was drawn on at the end? I was far back and couldn't make it out. Thanks. {Spoiler - click to view} A little stick man skiing down a slope!
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Post by joem on Jan 7, 2017 0:03:02 GMT
I think this is ageing well. It is still a clever, well-written play which goes beyond the meaning of art to the value of friendship and how we are who we are (to coin a phrase).
Rufus Sewell has a natural aptitude for comedy which he puts to good use here as Serge the buyer of the controversial white painting, he is the king of the arched eyebrow, the half-gesture and the meaningful stare. Paul Ritter's Mark is the straightest character, crusty and set in his ways - the yan to Sewell's mercurial yin. Tim Key, as Ivan, is the potential mediator between the two friends who ends up being abused by both. I did wonder if this part needs to be played quite as dumbly as it is here. Not sure why the three would be friends with such disparate ages and intellects.
However that might be the play is a comic success and any problems with cues and tempo which might have existed earlier in the run have disappeared. Recommended.
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Post by CG on the loose on Jan 26, 2017 23:42:07 GMT
I got sidetracked while trying to get a R&G ticket on Monday and picked up an upper circle ticket for this. Very happy to be told on pick up that I'd been upgraded to the Stalls. Surprising given how full it was. But Rufus Sewell was rather magnificent from Row B... enjoyed the play too, properly made me laugh, needed that this week.
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Post by showgirl on Jan 27, 2017 5:20:29 GMT
Really keen to try this again and running out of time but don't want to pay full price and such offers as there are (eg TKTS) on the day are still above my limit.
I've never before tried the "buying a cheap ticket in the hope of being upgraded" trick and am reluctant still, as I only ever book seats in which I'd be prepared to sit on the day, but do others have any advice, please? I'd probably have to go on a Saturday evening, which has to be the worst time for availability + last-minute deals/upgrades anyway, and besides, I see that theatremonkey.com didn't have a great time as a result of his seat upgrade.
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Xanderl
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Not always very high value in terms of ticket yield or donations
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Post by Xanderl on Jan 27, 2017 7:59:03 GMT
I would have a look at the restricted view "slim pillar" seats for £21 in the stalls or dress circle. Sadly the amazing end of row Q seats seem to have gone but there are others further back.
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Post by showgirl on Jan 27, 2017 8:17:55 GMT
Thank you, xanderl. I can see availability by price, including £21, but when I try to refine it, the search option doesn't seem to work + everything I try is way too expensive. Maybe I need to try a different browser - using Chrome.
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Xanderl
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Not always very high value in terms of ticket yield or donations
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Post by Xanderl on Jan 27, 2017 8:56:07 GMT
Worked OK for me on Chrome this morning - if you click on one of the seats behind a pillar it shows the price. Some of them are £55, but some are £21.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2017 13:14:42 GMT
I seem to remember finding the Old Vic site a bit of a nightmare on my tablet, I usually use my Mac or a work PC. Narrowing seat availability by price is a particular hassle! But £21 dress circle seats are great value, especially end of row A, B where you just have a slim railing in view.
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Post by theatremadness on Mar 21, 2017 19:57:57 GMT
Going on tour - related to the Old Vic production?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2017 21:08:53 GMT
'On tour with a phenomenal cast' - I'll happily offer Rufus Sewell a bed for the night if he needs one. *whistles innocently*
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Post by joem on Mar 22, 2017 18:53:42 GMT
'On tour with a phenomenal cast' - I'll happily offer Rufus Sewell a bed for the night if he needs one. *whistles innocently* He'll keep you up all night. With his snoring.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2017 22:43:20 GMT
:-) That's a risk worth taking, Joe. A risk well worth taking...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2017 0:54:19 GMT
I didn't realise this was touring, I'm kind of glad it is as I didn't really want to travel down to London just for it.
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Post by theatremadness on Jun 22, 2017 22:15:23 GMT
Pretty cool cast for the tour!
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Post by Phantom of London on Jun 22, 2017 22:16:55 GMT
Better cast than the Old Vic production.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2017 2:28:31 GMT
Surprised this hasn't been revived in the West End - used to get some good casts. The old 3 month run was ideal to get high profile names in.
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Post by popcultureboy on Jun 23, 2017 7:07:50 GMT
The Old Vic is considered West End, I thought.
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Post by Marwood on Jun 23, 2017 9:00:44 GMT
I have more interest in seeing this with Havers & co. than I did at seeing the Old Vic version - is there anywhere with a list of the tour locations and dates?
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Post by emicardiff on Jun 23, 2017 9:09:06 GMT
I have a strange love for Nigel Havers and this is defiantly a more interesting cast for my money, feel less sad about giving up my ticket for the Vic now!
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Post by Baemax on Jun 23, 2017 10:07:57 GMT
West End theatre, broadly speaking, is considered to be commercial theatre, and the Old Vic counts as non-commercial (along with the NT, Globe, Barbican, Open Air Theatre). It's eligible for the Olivier awards because it's a SOLT member but it's not *technically* a West End theatre.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 23, 2017 10:26:20 GMT
Yes, The Old Vic is a not-for-profit theatre which receives no public subsidy.
And, geographically, it's off-West End.
But it's considered a West End theatre because it's so nearby and its main-stage scale, nature and programme are so similar.
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Post by Jon on Jun 23, 2017 13:15:40 GMT
The Old Vic doesn't get Government help, though, Baemax. It's a charity supported by commercial sponsors. It's commercial in that if it fails to attract cash to put on stuff, it closes. The Open Air is a charity with no public subsidy as well.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2017 14:50:50 GMT
I don't consider The Old Vic a West End theatre anymore than the National or the other theatres mentioned, because they are producing theatres that produce their own productions (no matter where the money comes from), where as the West End is full of receiving houses.
Back to Art, however, sounds like a good cast but I can't find a list of venues anywhere.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2017 22:54:00 GMT
This is the list I've got so far of dates for this tour...
Cambridge Arts - 14 to 24 Feb Newcastle TR - 5 to 10 March Salford Lowry - 26 to 31 March Notitngham TR - 30 April to 5 May Canterbury Marlowe - 5 to 9 June
Anyone know of any others?
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Post by bellboard27 on Aug 31, 2017 9:46:33 GMT
I always love attempts to define the West End. In reality it is defined as theatres within the circumference of a circle whose centre is the intersection of Shaftesbury Avenue and Charing Cross Road and the length of the radius of which is one yard for each week for which David Garrick was alive. Why people get confused, I have no idea.
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Post by lynette on Aug 31, 2017 12:17:22 GMT
Was Havers in it first time round? They did a few permutations.
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