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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2018 10:13:31 GMT
I'm waiting until they announce Matthew Needham has been cast.
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Post by princeton on Aug 16, 2018 10:26:41 GMT
I'm waiting until they announce Matthew Needham has been cast. Isn't he giving us his Cock in Chichester?!
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Post by foxa on Aug 16, 2018 12:55:02 GMT
(whispers) I like Matthew Needham. Always.
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Post by peggs on Aug 16, 2018 13:27:58 GMT
Darn it I forgot, now which of the stalls 10 pounds seats are best now I've missed row f ones.
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Post by learfan on Aug 16, 2018 15:37:54 GMT
Booked 10 Nov matinee, no problem.
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Post by Jan on Aug 16, 2018 15:38:07 GMT
^This time around, member booking had the entire house on offer. Did it ? Interesting. Maybe their high membership prices have resulted in them having fewer member ? As a member it was hard to get a decent top price seat for Icke’s Uncke Vanya but as a non-member the best stalls seats were still available for this.
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Post by Polly1 on Aug 16, 2018 18:50:40 GMT
I was very happy to get my ticket for this with no problem. I loved his Uncle Vanya massively. Went for a matinee just in case it's long. Interested to hear casting now.
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Post by suckerpunch on Aug 16, 2018 19:08:08 GMT
Members appear to have bought all the middle stalls for the whole run, can't blame them. Robert Icke. Ibsen. Almeida.
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Post by Xanderl on Aug 16, 2018 19:33:57 GMT
It's selling well but there's still loads left in the middle stalls.
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Post by showgirl on Aug 17, 2018 4:01:14 GMT
I'm wary of what I've heard about Robert Icke and would have preferred a matinee but have taken a double risk by booking for an evening as it fitted into a day when I already have a matinee booked. However, I only ever book really cheap seats at the Almeida now, so if it turns out to be a dud, I won't have wasted much and if it's good, I'll either have a bargain or can try to upgrade. Mealy-mouthed as this may sound, I've had too many poor experiences at the Almeida in recent years, but maybe hope will triumph this time.
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Post by jason71 on Aug 17, 2018 16:27:17 GMT
Just booked a ticket for the evening show on Sat 27th Oct. Managed to get Stalls B27 for £25. I've read on here about people being worried by the length of this production. If it was going to be a long show then it would have started at 7pm.
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Post by showgirl on Aug 17, 2018 18:27:47 GMT
Perhaps, but it depends what you mean by "long". Plays starting at 7.30 pm can and do still last 2 hours 30 or 2 hours 45, making a later finish than I prefer in the evening; I think maybe you have in mind something more like 3 hours (or above), which would be quite beyond the pale for me.
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Post by jason71 on Aug 17, 2018 19:38:00 GMT
What do i mean when using the word 'long?' A play that clocks in at over three hours.
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Post by lynette on Aug 19, 2018 23:33:24 GMT
What do i mean when using the word 'long?' A play that clocks in at over three hours. After 10.30,self indulgent. We all know that by now.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Aug 19, 2018 23:40:33 GMT
I would rather sit through 3.5 hours of something brilliant than 90 minutes of something dire.
I have had some epic days in the theatre that flew by in what seemed like seconds. And some short trips that felt like an age.
Quality over quantity - sure. But a great piece of theatre can command your attention for 4 hours - it just has to be great!
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Post by showgirl on Aug 20, 2018 3:19:00 GMT
Absolutely agree with all who say that long can be great and short can be dire - and vice versa - that depends on the work. But irrespective of that, some of us still have physical limitations which mean we can't comfortably sit and concentrate for long periods (and I am not an evening person either, so simply staying awake is an issue for me); plus there is the question of whether we are able to get home afterwards if relying on public transport, as most of us do, and not living locally.
But here's hoping this production is both brilliant and not too long.
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Post by sherriebythesea on Aug 20, 2018 4:12:59 GMT
Angel Station is closest tube? Haven’t been here before and trying to expand from West End. Saw his Hamlet production last year and loved it.
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Post by Xanderl on Aug 20, 2018 5:44:32 GMT
Yes, it's about 10 minutes walk from Angel Tube, or 15 minutes in the other direction from Highbury and Islington. Alternatively you could get the bus - the 4 and 19 for instance both go direct from central London and stop nearby (St Mary's Church is the stop you want in Islington)
It's a great theatre, the "slightly restricted" seats in the central block of the stalls are very good value if you want to save a bit of money!
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Post by Jan on Aug 20, 2018 7:14:37 GMT
I would rather sit through 3.5 hours of something brilliant than 90 minutes of something dire. I have had some epic days in the theatre that flew by in what seemed like seconds. And some short trips that felt like an age. Quality over quantity - sure. But a great piece of theatre can command your attention for 4 hours - it just has to be great! Agree. For example the Trevor Nunn Othello was over 4 hours but totally engrossing.
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Post by learfan on Aug 20, 2018 7:15:20 GMT
Angel Station is closest tube? Haven’t been here before and trying to expand from West End. Saw his Hamlet production last year and loved it. Yep, its pretty much equidistant from Angel and Highbury & Islington. Short walk.
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Post by learfan on Aug 20, 2018 7:16:08 GMT
I would rather sit through 3.5 hours of something brilliant than 90 minutes of something dire. I have had some epic days in the theatre that flew by in what seemed like seconds. And some short trips that felt like an age. Quality over quantity - sure. But a great piece of theatre can command your attention for 4 hours - it just has to be great! Agree. For example the Trevor Nunn Othello was over 4 hours but totally engrossing. It was long wasn't it? But as you say v good.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2018 8:25:33 GMT
Angel Station is closest tube? Haven’t been here before and trying to expand from West End. Saw his Hamlet production last year and loved it. Yep, its pretty much equidistant from Angel and Highbury & Islington. Short walk. I find the street from Highbury & Islington is usually slightly less crowded than the street from Angel, and my favourite places to eat are on that side as well, though there are plenty of eateries on the walk from Angel, and the green is a nice place to sit if you're running a little ahead of schedule (because lord knows there's not that much foyer space at the Almeida if you like to sit down while waiting to see a play). It also depends, if you're travelling by tube, what your journey looks like. If I had a matinee at the Bridge Theatre, I'd be on the Northern line therefore getting off at Angel (which apparently has the longest escalator in the London underground system, if you're interested in that kind of thing), but if I were coming from the Victoria direction, then it's just easier to stay on the tube until Highbury & Islington than to change at King's Cross. (If you can, avoid changing lines at King's Cross like the plague, the signs they've put up to direct the flow of foot traffic usually means that you'll be going a really roundabout route to get to your next train unless you've read up on sneaky shortcuts beforehand.)
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2018 9:06:54 GMT
Oh, the big ol' hoardings around H&I station are down now, you can walk straight up to it again. Last I went, anyway.
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Post by Polly1 on Aug 20, 2018 9:07:28 GMT
How are renovations going at Highbury and Islington? Both the station and streets around it were very congested during the early summer, so I used Angel. Not sure if they have finished the works now, but for a while you couldn't use some exits from the station, and outside everybody had to shuffle in single file in a small area of the road. Pretty sure they've finished now, I don't remember any hoardings last time I went (for The Writer). I think it is a shorter walk from H&I.
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Post by n1david on Aug 20, 2018 9:15:07 GMT
Oh, the big ol' hoardings around H&I station are down now, you can walk straight up to it again. Last I went, anyway. They're back. TfL have started the project to remove the roundabout at H&I, and pedestrianise the Western arm (the one outside McDonalds). So pedestrians are caged in again, and there will be changes to walking routes at H&I until the end of next year. To add insult to injury, additionally they're having to re-lay all the new paving outside H&I station, as that was done wrongly, so the contractor will be re-doing all that paving for the next couple of months.
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Post by Jan on Aug 20, 2018 13:56:32 GMT
Agree. For example the Trevor Nunn Othello was over 4 hours but totally engrossing. It was long wasn't it? But as you say v good. The billed running time was four hours and the actual time when I saw it was a little longer. But it seemed much less.
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Post by foxa on Sept 3, 2018 18:25:06 GMT
I think Lyndsey Marshall and Nicholas Farrell are the only actors in that list whose work I know. (From their credits there is at least one other I have seen, but I have no recollection of them.)
Which is fine.
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Post by Jan on Sept 4, 2018 6:26:00 GMT
I think Lyndsey Marshall and Nicholas Farrell are the only actors in that list whose work I know. (From their credits there is at least one other I have seen, but I have no recollection of them.) Which is fine. I like Nicholas Farrell, haven't seen him for a while. The rest I'm not familiar with. Casting is very important in this particular play, it is more of an ensemble piece than a star vehicle, so the lack of any big names is not a problem.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Sept 5, 2018 21:09:14 GMT
Some posts have been removed from this thread at the request of Robert Icke’s agent.
Let’s move on please.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Sept 5, 2018 22:05:49 GMT
What do i mean when using the word 'long?' A play that clocks in at over three hours. After 10.30,self indulgent. We all know that by now. You’re very generous lynette! 9:45 max. At that point I’m gathering up my shopping, shaking the last ice cubes from the bottom of my plastic glass and heading for the bus!
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