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Post by jason71 on Feb 20, 2019 14:33:23 GMT
Are people aware of the £15 tickets that are on offer? Up until Press Night you can get any seat for £15. Just got myself a seat in the Pit
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Xanderl
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Post by Xanderl on Feb 20, 2019 15:12:49 GMT
Is there an offer code for this? Ta!
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Post by jason71 on Feb 20, 2019 16:05:24 GMT
Is there an offer code for this? Ta! No code is needed. Just click on the special offer box. Or book via box Office |
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Post by NeilVHughes on Feb 23, 2019 0:11:01 GMT
Takes a woman to make Richard a man.
First preview tonight, enough in it for me to book a £15 ticket closer to the Opening Night, quite feisty and full on which impacts the dynamics which will hopefully mellow as it beds in.
Just over 3hrs tonight, definitely get your money’s worth in comparison to the Almeida production.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2019 10:15:36 GMT
Three hours on THOSE seats? Well that's just not right!
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Post by lynette on Feb 24, 2019 10:28:44 GMT
They would have to pay me.
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Post by raiseitup on Apr 1, 2019 14:08:34 GMT
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Xanderl
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Post by Xanderl on Apr 1, 2019 17:16:19 GMT
Sounds scary! Shobna Gulati has tweeted this afternoon that she is doing OK.
Only twigged after reading this that the cast features the actors who played the mothers of two Doctor Who companions (Shobna Gulati is Yaz's mother and Adjoa Andoh was Martha's mother).
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Post by David J on Apr 13, 2019 21:16:11 GMT
So i went to the evening performance but left at the interval
This isn’t a bad production. Most of the all female cast give good performances. Dona Croll gives a touching rendition of ‘this sceptres isle’, even if the audience laughed at one point making brexit comparisons
What drags this down however is the lead. Adjoa Andoh did impress me last year in Leave Taking and Troilus and Cressida but Richard II doesn’t suit her. She certainly gives a different interpretation to the role by presenting an assertive and bullyish King, but she overacts in this. Rushing her lines at times and drawing out her words, she lacks finesse and subtlety. I hoped she’d change in the death of kings speech but it was clear she was going to remain the same into the second act
She’s only matched by Indra Oves overcooked performance as Mowbray
Liked the African setting, but its held back by the Jacobean theatre. The candlelabras clashes with the set and costumes, which remain nothing more than set dressing. The only interesting thing they do is have these pictures of the cast members’ ancestors whom they refer to at times
I feel Richard II lives and dies by the performances (even Simon Russell Beale could hold together the terrible Almeida production). So after seeing an okay production of Betrayal, I left what was an okay production of Richard II with what is, frankly, the worst Richard I’ve seen so far.
I feel I’m getting too old to be coming all the way up to London to see okay productions
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