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Post by theatrefan77 on Mar 21, 2019 12:32:33 GMT
Are you sure they were working for the production? I don't think they should have been drinking while at work . . . I'm positive. My friend complained to they ushers and they confirmed it.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2019 12:33:47 GMT
Are you sure they were working for the production? I don't think they should have been drinking while at work . . . I'm positive. My friend complained to they ushers and they confirmed it. How dreadful of them. Although I do rather like the sound of a job where you can drink wine at the same time. Contractually.
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Post by theatrefan77 on Mar 21, 2019 12:34:56 GMT
LOL. Me too!
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Post by MrsCondomine on Mar 21, 2019 13:12:27 GMT
I'm positive. My friend complained to they ushers and they confirmed it. How dreadful of them. Although I do rather like the sound of a job where you can drink wine at the same time. Contractually. In my youth (it was 2011) I temporarily worked for an office that would suck up to potential clients by creating cocktails in their honour. Being half-cut at 11am whilst trying to be professional was a DELICIOUS challenge. Having said that, I find I enjoy shows a lot more if I'm a bit pished - so if these women produce overwhelmingly positive notes, maybe it's the vino, not the show.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2019 22:26:47 GMT
Well I wasn’t pished today but I bloody loved this! Proper review when I’m not on a bus home, but this was great.
Yes at times it’s a bit “Feminism 101” but what’s wrong with that? Some people need that. Yes there’s a fair bit of padding in act 1. But it’s a fierce and fiery bit of theatre that’s bloody funny, moving and makes you want to burn the place down (in a good way) after. And those women, what performances.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2019 15:09:46 GMT
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Post by zahidf on Apr 1, 2019 15:22:19 GMT
I saw this last week, thought it was GREAT
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Post by Dr Tom on Apr 2, 2019 7:50:15 GMT
I found this interesting and watchable last night. The ending was rather jarring if you're a single man, but I suppose that was deliberate.
Seat A4 from TodayTix Rush is excellent. Second row, but an empty seat at front and you're much less likely to have underwear suddenly land on your head than those in the front row.
Stalls looked about half full. There were some people in the Dress Circle, but couldn't see how many. The Upper Circle was closed.
As others have said, this is a powerful production. The first half could be trimmed a bit (hopefully the cast were not too put off by the elderly lady next to me when she started to snore, but I didn't like to touch her). The second half works really well.
The audience was 95% female, so I guess this appeals well to that demographic. Bear in mind also this was a Monday, when audience numbers are traditionally lower.
I've seen some bad productions with multiple actors sharing the main role recently, but the way this was done was intelligent and worked well. Clarke Perkins (older Emilia) holds this together but all the cast give their all and are obviously very experienced with getting their beards on and off quickly.
Definitely worth seeing. As others have said, you do have to be in the right frame of mind. It isn't a play that requires particularly high levels of concentration, but there are powerful messages there, most of them not subtle.
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Post by Rory on Apr 30, 2019 8:52:52 GMT
Now finishing on 1st June, not the 15th.
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Post by theatremad on Apr 30, 2019 17:50:21 GMT
Now finishing on 1st June, not the 15th. Thank god I'm booked in this saturday
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Post by TallPaul on May 1, 2019 13:00:13 GMT
To be replaced by BalletBoyz from 3 to 15 June.
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Post by emilytemple on May 10, 2019 9:11:41 GMT
Hello, Did anyone try Day seat for this ? 9 is enough to show up on bo?
I know that you can get tickets £20 "Rush tickets " but at the same time I will try to get a ticket for six so all energy at today tix will be on the other play propably
Thank you for ifo
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Post by kzf on May 10, 2019 10:23:49 GMT
Todaytix seats tend to hang around well into the afternoon in the week so you might even be alright there. I'm also going to try day seat for this tomorrow so I'll report back.
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Post by Stephen on May 10, 2019 22:30:00 GMT
Todaytix seats tend to hang around well into the afternoon in the week so you might even be alright there. I'm also going to try day seat for this tomorrow so I'll report back. Please do! I'm going to try next Saturday if it's easy. I told my mum I'd take her but I'll only hold off booking if there's a reasonable chance. I guess the odds are better on two show days!
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Post by kzf on May 11, 2019 9:35:28 GMT
First person arrived about 8.15am. I arrived about 8.30. Another two turned up at about 9.40. Everyone was after 2 tickets and strangely all for the matinee. Box office said this is fairly typical, haven't been huge queues.
Also apparently the unsold day seats get put onto Todaytix so if you're going to arrive well after 10am you're better off looking online.
Hope this helps! Looking forward to the show.
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Post by showgirl on May 12, 2019 3:50:12 GMT
Hope those day-seating yesterday were successful. I was at the matinee in a pre-booked seat, which the Box Office staff kindly changed to move me forward slightly (by 2 rows, but still in my preferred aisle seat). I was a bit concerned that the assistant did not change the booking bur merely noted the new seat number on my ticket as I felt anyone could have written that and it could be awkward if the same seat was then given to someone else. Sure enough, in due course along came a lady who had also been moved to the same seat (apparently the balcony was closed so a fair number of seats had been changed). The usher went away with her ticket and mine and came back to offer the lady another seat, only to find that this too had already been given to someone else. It was 3rd time lucky for the lady eventually and she was moved to the row in front of mine, but hard on her and the usher and it could have been avoided had the Box Office had a system in place for re-allocating seats.
As for the play itself, I did enjoy it once it started though felt it could easily have lost 15 mins and I wasn't so keen on the declaiming style of the 2nd Emilia, but at the end there was one of the most spontaneous and complete standing ovations I've ever seen.
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Post by Stephen on May 20, 2019 1:32:46 GMT
Saw this (quite drunk) on Saturday night. It’s very funny in parts, powerful in parts and quite random in parts. Overall I enjoyed it.
I did spend a while fearing another Don Quixote where I might have ended up part of the action but it was not to be. Probably for the best, I was sloshed!
The audience was made up mainly of white middle class women and their children though. Might have been a more mixed crowd at the globe?
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Post by lynette on May 25, 2019 20:26:16 GMT
When it was at the Globe I left at the interval so I will never know what was even worse at the end. Preachy, was it? A bit down on men?
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Post by Dr Tom on May 27, 2019 17:49:54 GMT
When it was at the Globe I left at the interval so I will never know what was even worse at the end. Preachy, was it? A bit down on men? It was possibly accurate, but the problem was that men who chose to attend this type of performance would be unlikely to gender discriminate. So it was (intentionally?) insulting to that minority.
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Post by lynette on May 28, 2019 18:05:09 GMT
Yeah, thought so.
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Post by cherokee on May 31, 2019 16:55:22 GMT
I went with very high expectations having seen a lot of love on twitter for the show. I have to admit, sadly my expectations weren't met. While it had good intentions, and it was refreshing to see such a diverse, all-female cast on stage, I found the piece rather unsubtle. All the men were boorish, vacuous and villainous and all the women feisty, honourable and sympathetic. When Jackie Clune's Lord Flash-Heart-like Thomas Howard responded to an audience member's booing with an ad-libbed: "This isn't panto!", my immediate thought was, yes it kind of is.
I was intrigued in Act 1, and I liked the scene with Emilia and her three 'debutante' ladies. Act 2 played out in a particular predictable way, and the final speech, obviously intended to provoke the requisite whoops and standing ovation, made me cringe. The cast on the whole were fine. Sarah Seggari was a standout for me: funny and with real charisma. And I liked Adelle Leonce and Saffron Coomber as the two younger Emilias, whereas Clare Perkins I found a little wooden at times. Amanda Wilkin didn't work for me either, landed with the comedy role of the useless husband but without the comic ability to carry it off. And as commendable as it is to cast a deaf actor, I'm afraid that way up in the Upper Circle, I couldn't understand about half of her lines. (Charity Wakefield also struggled to project all the way up there too.)
Three stars for trying.
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Post by bob2010 on Nov 20, 2020 13:34:41 GMT
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Post by eliza on Nov 20, 2020 19:13:05 GMT
Thank you for this! I was really sad to miss this so will definitely watch!
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Post by Forrest on Nov 23, 2020 12:00:41 GMT
Like lynette, I left before the interval last night too. I didn't like this at all: I didn't find it funny, found the characters stereotypical to an annoying extreme (quite an unusual choice for a play about a woman defying stereotypical expectations), and overall I just failed to connect with it in any way. I lasted some 40 minutes before I turned it off and conceded that it just isn't the play for me.
Ah, well, it has to happen from time to time.
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Post by peggs on Nov 23, 2020 19:52:20 GMT
Was the recording decent @forrest ?
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Post by Forrest on Nov 23, 2020 21:17:53 GMT
peggs, it's decent: the music isn't really audible (you can tell when it happens, but not really hear it well) but the dialogues are quite understandable. There's also a version with subtitles if you find you're struggling to hear/understand everything.
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Post by lynette on Nov 24, 2020 15:14:28 GMT
Like lynette, I left before the interval last night too. I didn't like this at all: I didn't find it funny, found the characters stereotypical to an annoying extreme (quite an unusual choice for a play about a woman defying stereotypical expectations), and overall I just failed to connect with it in any way. I lasted some 40 minutes before I turned it off and conceded that it just isn't the play for me. Ah, well, it has to happen from time to time. Funny to have ‘left’ an online. You could have done your yoga with it running in the background...anyway, i am not alone as The Telegraph has been repeatedly telling me.
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Post by Forrest on Nov 24, 2020 16:38:41 GMT
Yoga with Emilia instead of yoga with Adriene, lynette ? :) I think I can still watch it if I choose to, until 2 December, but somehow don't think I'll go back to it, there was no spark, somehow.
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Post by cherokee on Dec 11, 2020 16:12:38 GMT
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