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Post by Jan on Nov 4, 2019 18:03:20 GMT
They should have made that clear by putting a big warning on the advertising material, it would have sold loads more seats. Surprised that given the involvement of Martin Crimp people aren't waiting for reviews of this before booking. Oh, I most certainly am waiting for that very reason! Me too. Plus I’ve seen it a few times before, it’s not a great play, you sort of think it must be because it’s so famous but in reality it’s a bit dull.
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Post by zahidf on Nov 24, 2019 13:59:35 GMT
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Not always very high value in terms of ticket yield or donations
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Post by Xanderl on Nov 25, 2019 20:44:51 GMT
NT Live screening on 20th February
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2019 20:50:30 GMT
Honestly, this looking boring. Handheld microphones... Groundbreaking. I wish Jamie Lloyd would do something else for a change. I bet the set will be entirely grey/blue. YAWN.
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Post by anactualbunny on Nov 27, 2019 8:45:18 GMT
Saw the pay what you can performance yesterday. The set looked unfinished and a bit boring, I know Jamie Lloyd favours minimalism but it felt a bit AmDram.
The play was very enjoyable and the audience seemed to love it.
Slight spoiler - mentioned earlier in this thread about nudity but there is no nudity in the show
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Post by Boob on Nov 27, 2019 23:13:19 GMT
Saw the pay what you can performance yesterday. The set looked unfinished and a bit boring, I know Jamie Lloyd favours minimalism but it felt a bit AmDram. The play was very enjoyable and the audience seemed to love it. Slight spoiler - mentioned earlier in this thread about nudity but there is no nudity in the show Maybe because the set is by Soutra Gilmour and she’s opening at least three shows in London in the same month?!
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Post by theoracle on Dec 3, 2019 9:03:17 GMT
So I saw this last night and I still can’t make up my mind whether this was trying too hard to appeal to a younger crowd or was this a successful reinvention of Edmond Rostand’s classic play. I won’t lie, there are moments of actual genius in Martin Crimps adaptation such as during Cyranos first love letter to Roxanne, who by the way was also brilliant. At other times however, I was confused by the racking and the setting of the piece. Is Cyrano a soldier, a gangster or a rebel student genius? It’s very clearly a Jamie Lloyd piece with the minimalist staging and hand held mics but how effectively this works for this piece is very much up for debate
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Post by sydneyboi on Dec 3, 2019 9:13:15 GMT
Hello Peeps, Please can somebody advise the running time, or the time that it finished? Thank you
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Post by argon on Dec 3, 2019 18:24:25 GMT
Hello Peeps, Please can somebody advise the running time, or the time that it finished? Thank you Started @ 7.38 Finished @ 10.32 Millennials aplenty McAvoy was good the production didn't impress
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Post by Dave B on Dec 4, 2019 10:17:11 GMT
McAvoy is very good, as are most of the cast. The production.... yikes. I was actively bored a lot in the first half. After the interval, there was a small but notable number of empty seats, not just up in the nosebleeds where we were (front row upper circle) but down in the much higher priced stalls.
It is very funny at times but drifts all over the place.
I don't know if it was just last night but I found the sound to be less than great it seemed to just be McAvoy and yes in particular at his quieter moments but there were several points where I couldn't make out his words at all.
My better half enjoyed it a lot more than I did so I could be entirely wrong. I am looking forward to the reviews, maybe it all just flew over my head and it'll be a smash hit....
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Post by maggiem on Dec 9, 2019 11:28:35 GMT
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Post by ruperto on Dec 10, 2019 0:15:29 GMT
Just out from this. Blimey o Riley... Well, it’s always great to see James McAvoy on stage - I still have fond memories of him crashing into my feet while he was having a fight in The Ruling Class at the Trafalgar Studios a few years back. And Martin Crimp’s new version of Cyrano is, quite often, very witty and a pleasure to listen to. But by god, this was a bit of a slog - though naturally the critics are having orgasms. It’s punishingly modish - having watched Noah Baumbach’s brilliant film Marriage Story on Netflix yesterday, this looked a bit like the sort of thing that Adam Driver’s avant-garde Brooklyn theatre director would put on. Which for some people might be a recommendation... (Or maybe it’s the play that the film director Carson Clay in Mr Bean’s Holiday would stage if he moved into theatre). As we near the end of this theatrical year, can we maybe have a moratorium on ugly, bare wooden sets, school plastic chairs and - one of this year’s repeat offenders - hand-held microphones? Please?
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Post by MrBraithwaite on Dec 10, 2019 8:13:12 GMT
God, am I glad I didn't book this. This looks exactly as it could be a production at any German ciy theater by some hip new director. And that's what I always find amusing about British directors praising German theatre...if you are a subscriber and have seen the fiftieth production like this, you long for a production of Cyrano with costumes and set to speak of and a Cyrano with a long nose. Or as German comedian Loriot said it once (about the Ring-cycle): "I have seen so many Wotans with a briefcase, I would love to see one with a spear."
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Post by ruperto on Dec 10, 2019 11:14:52 GMT
Yes, I think you're more likely to like this if you liked, say, Grief is the Thing With Feathers at the Barbican or Summer and Smoke at the Almeida/West End - and I know a lot of people did really like those two shows.
For me, as a production, this Cyrano is aggressively non-traditional, to the point that it felt a little like it had been calculatedly designed to provoke, which for some reason I found irritating. It was also very in love with itself (which is not a crime, I know).
The last in-my-opinion 5-star play I saw was Hansard at the National, so maybe I'm just too old for shows like this! After last night, I felt like I needed to restore my equilibrium by watching an old-fashioned drawing room drama...
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Post by jaqs on Dec 16, 2019 7:09:20 GMT
I really quite enjoyed it. Didn’t mind the microphones or bare stage. Thought the actors were all very good. Yes it’s a bit too down with the kids at times but I still had a good time.
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Post by Forrest on Dec 23, 2019 23:31:20 GMT
ruperto I must say I agree with you: somehow the play felt very calculated, as if it was meant to be a bit provocative (although can't say that I think it was, particularly) and it all also felt just a little too polished somehow, for a play relying on the daredevil streak of its main character... It felt a bit like it was trying really hard to be cool enough for a Broadway transfer. It was entertaining, and the cast is overall good, but I can't say it really got me hooked. McAvoy's performance is quite enjoyable - he is a good actor - but it all kind of felt, as you say, very in love with itself, a bit self-absorbed, rather than engaging with the audience. (At a certain point in the play I found myself thinking how it would be interesting to see a different actor in that role, someone of a lower profile but equally talented, just to see if that would help loosen things up a bit.) The thing I enjoyed the most, actually, was Crimp's adaptation of the text, which I thought was great! But the play failed to get me genuinely excited about the next Jamie Lloyd production (in the same way that I get excited when I see, for instance, the names James Macdonald or Rupert Goold associated with a production), so I believe I'll be skipping the line of his upcoming celebrity projects. (My ticket was decently priced, though, so no regrets there - TodayTix made me an offer for £18 I could not refuse. I found out later that the seats where I was sitting were normally sold for over twice as much, which would have been way too much for the view we got.)
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Post by kimbahorel on Jan 18, 2020 10:14:41 GMT
I know no one has posted here for ages and I don't know if no one has gone after hearing peoples reviews or no one has bothered to post. Either way I did go last night and really enjoyed it. I am not familiar with the story although I have heard the name before so outside of the reframing I assume the base story is the same.
The acting is fantastic esp Eben Figueiredo who was Christian and I always love Tom Edden in everything I have seen him do. And of course James McAvoy. I would however really want to go if Philip Cairns on as Cyrano having seen so much of one show and wanting to see covers my default is 'oooo I wonder about the covers'.
Not to bring up another tetchy subject with TB if anyone is planning on going to the stage door. They have in place (well at least yesterday they did). The you can only queue up at stage door if you have a ticket, single file along the barrier and once JM has signed or photo you leave and go away from the barrier and stage door. If you did want to appreciate the work of any of the rest of the 17 other cast members that was in the show made it VERY difficult. I remember when I saw Dr Faustus when there was a barrier and Kit Harington and a million people most of whom hadn't gone to the show. I did get my programme signed by all the cast except Kit I think. Its fair to have the only signed or photo and only if you saw the show but being forced away made it feel like McAvoy was the only one in the show. So I only managed to meet three of the cast.
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Post by jess173 on Jan 18, 2020 11:50:39 GMT
I saw it two weeks ago and went to the Stagedoor after. That day almost all of the cast exited before James. The principals like Christian and Roxanne walked inside the barrier along the theatre. I don’t know if someone stopped them but they got some applause when they exited. The others crossed the street right at the Stagedoor but I saw some people call them and some of them came back to the line to chat. So it wouldn’t have been difficult to get to them even when standing in line. I think it was pretty well organised, same team and strategy as at Betrayal at the Pinter. The line moved pretty quickly and people respected the „either pic or autograph“ rule, unlike Betrayal where some people took ages...
It took me some time to get into the show. It wasn’t really what I had expected but I really started to enjoy it after the first 30 minutes or so. The cast was fantastic. I was really glad I caught this.
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Post by kimbahorel on Jan 18, 2020 13:13:57 GMT
I saw it two weeks ago and went to the Stagedoor after. That day almost all of the cast exited before James. The principals like Christian and Roxanne walked inside the barrier along the theatre. I don’t know if someone stopped them but they got some applause when they exited. The others crossed the street right at the Stagedoor but I saw some people call them and some of them came back to the line to chat. So it wouldn’t have been difficult to get to them even when standing in line. I think it was pretty well organised, same team and strategy as at Betrayal at the Pinter. The line moved pretty quickly and people respected the „either pic or autograph“ rule, unlike Betrayal where some people took ages... It took me some time to get into the show. It wasn’t really what I had expected but I really started to enjoy it after the first 30 minutes or so. The cast was fantastic. I was really glad I caught this. James came out very quick yesterday then he was out right after the show. I think then it may have been he just needed to/wanted to leave. Security were making everyone leave the line and stand over the other side of the road. Hense why it was difficult to meet any of the rest of the cast. Most of them came out after JM.
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Post by zahidf on Jan 18, 2020 13:21:18 GMT
Anyone try for day seats?
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Post by kimbahorel on Jan 18, 2020 13:49:21 GMT
Anyone try for day seats? I did that yeaterday I only needed one and got there 7.30am. But if I had been 5 minutes later I would have lost out.
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Post by zahidf on Jan 18, 2020 15:05:07 GMT
Thanks!
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Post by showtimeag on Jan 21, 2020 23:31:21 GMT
I have tickets for next month and plan to take my niece and nephew (15 and 13) - can anyone advice on extent of swearing and nudity - is it some here and there - or constant? thanks!
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Post by couldileaveyou on Jan 21, 2020 23:34:12 GMT
I have tickets for next month and plan to take my niece and nephew (15 and 13) - can anyone advice on extent of swearing and nudity - is it some here and there - or constant? thanks! no nudity and some recurring "f***"s here and there
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Post by showtimeag on Jan 21, 2020 23:43:22 GMT
I have tickets for next month and plan to take my niece and nephew (15 and 13) - can anyone advice on extent of swearing and nudity - is it some here and there - or constant? thanks! no nudity and some recurring "f***"s here and there Thanks for the quick reply I was completely confused as most booking sites refer to 'full frontal nudity' and one review said soldiers stripped off not keen on upsetting the family!
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Post by couldileaveyou on Jan 21, 2020 23:56:56 GMT
no nudity and some recurring "f***"s here and there Thanks for the quick reply I was completely confused as most booking sites refer to 'full frontal nudity' and one review said soldiers stripped off not keen on upsetting the family! no full frontal, it must have been cut before the first preview since it was mentioned in interviews, website and script. The soldiers just take their shirts off, and maybe trousers, but they definitely keep their underwear on
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Post by kimbahorel on Jan 22, 2020 20:50:31 GMT
On Monday the understudy Cyrano, Philip Cairns is on. For any of you who are interested. It doesn't look like they have sold many tickets and plenty of £15 left. I got a standing for stalls. I love McAvoy but I couldn't resist the chance to see a cover (well two).
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Post by dip on Jan 29, 2020 18:55:14 GMT
Got two under-30's Stalls tickets to tomorrows matinee that I can't use, if anyone wants 'em?
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Post by lightinthedarkness on Jan 29, 2020 20:56:21 GMT
Got two under-30's Stalls tickets to tomorrows matinee that I can't use, if anyone wants 'em? Potentially interested! How much for them?
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Post by dip on Jan 29, 2020 21:34:59 GMT
Got two under-30's Stalls tickets to tomorrows matinee that I can't use, if anyone wants 'em? Potentially interested! How much for them? just PMed you
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