Unreachable, Royal Court (w/ Matt Smith)

Confirmed by the video on the play's website which features Matt Smith - www.unreachabletheplay.com/

Loads of tickets available at the moment.

The video suggests this could be great, or insufferable. But I guess with Matt Smith in it, we can't afford to wait for the reviews!

I'm checking with the theatre, obviously, but in case anyone here knows: what do they accept as proof for student pricing? I'm 40 but doing a professional qualification that entitles me to an NUS card. So I'm wondering if that's sufficient to entitle me to the discount. I see they also have an under-26 policy so I'm guessing a student can be any age, but figured I'd ask. Want a decent seat but would rather keep the costs down if possible!

If not, Row B looks OK by Theatremonkey's reckoning...

Casting confirmed by the Royal Court

www.royalcourttheatre.com/news/articles/royal-court-theatre-casting-announcement-unreachab/

Got a £10 ticket for the first Monday in August, I'm not going to bother renewing my R.C. membership, they're useless at letting you know what is coming up and when shows are on sale, and there hasn't been that much stuff they've put on over the last year that I've wanted to see (and the less said about the membership card that looks like it was filled in by a chimp with a marker pen, the better).

Will Parsley tell us it's the worst ever new play?

Or that it's the best ever?

A friend has seen the first preview on Saturday. The audience was explained that it's just a preview and that the script was only just made. The actors had their scripts with them. Friend enjoyed it very much - especially Jonjo O'Neil- and just booked again to see it as finished version later in the run.
The play was improvised by the actors together with the writer/director in the rehearsal room. Hopefully they'll get their credits (in cash).


More about the play www.telegraph.co.uk/theatre/what-to-see/career-suicide-or-the-role-of-a-lifetime-matt-smith-on-why-his-n/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

I would be more bothered

They are having to paper and discount this

Matt Smith is hardly Oscar matter

An odd choice to make

The occasional asthmatic, maybe. (The stuff at the Almeida for Bakkhai was pretty pongy.)

Then JUST STOP GOING!

The power of Parsley?

So .. this was interesting.

Director and Artistic Director came out to make their excuses at the beginning. Vicky F made somewhat disingenuous little speech about the role of previews in shaping the show. This was not a preview - more like a workshop of a first draft.

Most of it wasn't much good. Neilson hasn't found a coherent story, yet, and his characters still feel like sketches. There are some interesting moments, and ideas, and a few good one-liners.. but a lot that's flat and awkward, too. And some that's really bad.

There's a mad cameo by Jono O'Neill - think the bastard love-child of Withnail and Werner Herzog - which is quite funny (in an audience-pleasing, impro kind of way) - but he's in a different play to the other actors.

Matt Smith is quite lost - he sort of flutters around the edge of the action when he's supposed to be driving it. But this is mostly I suspect because the writer hasn't given him much to do except act brattish. And searching for the perfect light isn't an easy thing to dramatise..

Anyway, all the performers did a brilliant job trying to hold this together, and sell it, on book - but there were still a lot of people who didn't come back after the interval.

I'd advise anyone who has a ticket for the next couple of weeks (and isn't interested in seeing work in progress) to call the box office and ask for something towards the end of the run. It's by no means clear, on the basis of last night, that there's a good piece to be found in this - but it might happen...

Bend it bend it

What time was the interval for this? Just saw Cuttin It Upstairs and that finished at 9.05pm and Downstairs was still on its interval. I thought it only lasts 2 hrs? That makes the second half the most 25 mins!!!