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Post by greyskies on Mar 20, 2023 17:23:27 GMT
I tried the ATG members presale for this, but I couldn't see any good seats at prices I wanted to pay, so I patiently waited for the National Theatre Priority sale at noon today. Straight in, but it's just a poorer selection of seats. ATG have form for releasing the front rows later on, so I think I'll bide my time until row C is released. Or is that being sold through another agency? Quite why all selling portals can't access and share the same inventory in 2023, is anyone's guess. What sort of prices are they asking?
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Post by mkb on Mar 20, 2023 18:20:41 GMT
It's as per TheatreMonkey.
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Post by Latecomer on Mar 20, 2023 19:08:55 GMT
Behind a pillar in the royal circle for £65. I remember the days when the stalls “pillar” seats were £5 each….I must be getting old(er!)
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Post by theatregoer22 on Mar 29, 2023 14:01:41 GMT
I unexpectedly recieved a priority sale link from Love Theatre today and couldn't resist getting a seat for £11.40, even if it is a balcony seat with a not so great view.
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Post by beguilingeyes on Mar 29, 2023 14:20:34 GMT
It's Rylance, so I think people will flock no matter what they call it. I notice that none of the front rows have been sold, so I wonder if they'll do day seats as per Jerusalem.
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Post by londonpostie on Mar 31, 2023 11:59:15 GMT
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Post by alessia on Mar 31, 2023 13:14:09 GMT
I think I'm going to wait for the two front rows to go on sale. Even tho I have a voucher, prices are a bit too high for a decent seat.
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Post by londonpostie on Mar 31, 2023 13:34:40 GMT
Probably a good call. I see the 2 back rows of the stalls are not on sale atm. Never sat there so can't comment on the overhang.
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Post by Rory on Jun 5, 2023 19:30:46 GMT
Full cast announced, including Pauline McLynn
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Post by rumbledoll on Jun 17, 2023 6:24:31 GMT
I think I'm going to wait for the two front rows to go on sale. Even tho I have a voucher, prices are a bit too high for a decent seat. Thanks for the tip! Any idea when they might release the two front rows? Subscribed at the website but it’s all been so quiet lately..
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Post by alessia on Jun 17, 2023 11:41:28 GMT
I have no idea! Mine was a wish more than anything lol. I’m just hoping it will be like Jerusalem and the front will be day seats…
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Post by beguilingeyes on Jun 23, 2023 12:30:30 GMT
I'm currently in the queue for Friday Rush at The National and notice that Dr Semmelweis is party of the queue list.
2You are now in the queue for £10 Friday Rush tickets for performances of The Motive and the Cue and Dear England at the National Theatre, and selected performances of A Strange Loop at the Barbican Theatre and Dr Semmelweis at the Harold Pinter Theatre, from Monday 26 to Saturday 1 July.2
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Post by alessia on Jun 23, 2023 12:44:58 GMT
I can't go next week (already two theatre trips) but I'll try Friday rush next week, definitely for DR S. If you get them can you let me know where the seat will be?
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Post by rumtom on Jun 23, 2023 14:48:53 GMT
I can't go next week (already two theatre trips) but I'll try Friday rush next week, definitely for DR S. If you get them can you let me know where the seat will be? I was surprised to see tickets to Dr S included but fortunately I was already in the queue for rush tickets when I noticed. I managed to get Row E tickets at the edge of dress circle.
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Post by ncbears on Jun 24, 2023 14:55:24 GMT
I saw people apparently loading in on Friday. Not a lot of time to tech before performances.
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Post by zahidf on Jun 24, 2023 23:15:52 GMT
o wtf
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Post by rumtom on Jul 3, 2023 10:17:33 GMT
I saw this on Friday, and thought it very good but whilst I did enjoy it I think it should/will become slicker as they get into this run. Parts of it are fast paced and frantic in dialogue and I thought it became a bit disjointed in sections. Mark Rylance was excellent, along with Pauline McLynn and Alan Williams but I found some of the rest of cast a bit wooden - his wife, particularly.
The ballet worked really well throughout and really added to the energy and worked well as an allegory to the narrative.
I'd be interested in hearing others views. Also I have a spare single ticket tonight that anyone is welcome to (balcony).
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Post by joem on Jul 4, 2023 21:56:12 GMT
Although the subject matter is obviously very worthy I thought the core material a bit stretched because it is (naturally) very Semmelweis-centred. Rylance gives a great performance, as is to be expected, but I do sometimes wish he'd choose a more "boring" character to inhabit. Can't remember the last time I saw him acting with a straight bat.
The music and dance works a treat and, together with the lighting in particular, creates a great period effect and atmosphere. The stage does look a bit cluttered at time with the large cast on stage, especially when there's dancing on the sides. I do wonder whether a wider stage might not have been more effective?
Very good supporting performances from the cast, especially Pauline Mclynn as the nurse Anna Muller. A treat to watch all in all.
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Post by beguilingeyes on Jul 6, 2023 8:45:44 GMT
I liked it very much. I just wish the days seats weren't caught up with the National's as I'd rather not sit in an enormous queue.
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Post by theatregoer22 on Jul 6, 2023 23:03:26 GMT
I liked it very much. I just wish the days seats weren't caught up with the National's as I'd rather not sit in an enormous queue. If you don't mind paying £25 instead of £10 then TodayTix do Rush tickets.
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Post by beguilingeyes on Jul 7, 2023 12:12:03 GMT
I just spotted this on Theatre Monkey. £15 day seats available at the theatre. BOX OFFICE: Day seats available to personal callers from 10am (12 noon Bank Holidays) each day, price £15 each. Number and location are at box office discretion.
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Post by nash16 on Jul 7, 2023 23:37:42 GMT
I think we just watched a play about bleach.
Bleach.
We need to veer Mark away from being anything but a tremendous actor in things. When he gets involved in creation or writing, things like this happen.
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Post by Steve on Jul 8, 2023 23:06:51 GMT
I think we just watched a play about bleach. Bleach. We need to veer Mark away from being anything but a tremendous actor in things. When he gets involved in creation or writing, things like this happen. As funny as that review is, and it IS funny, this play is obviously not about "bleach." It's about how knowledge is advanced when everyone thinks they already know what's up. It's about what happens when the scientific consensus is wrong. I really enjoyed the play tonight, not only for Rylance, but also because it's an incredible story well told, through mystery, through music and dance, though I could have used more focus on Semmelweis himself (the play is named after him, after all) so that the focus on his work and discoveries would feel more personal and contextualised. Some spoilers follow. . . I loved the play "Oppenheimer," not only for it's fascinating portrait of the birth of a technology that could kill us all, and the tragedy of a man knowing he made that possible, but also for what happened before that: the stuff where John Heffernan's young Oppenheimer just hung out with his friends, the work rivalries, the romance, the humour - for me, the weight of the tragedy that later fell on his shoulders felt greater for knowing him apart from that tragedy. "Farinelli and the King" had that foundational type character stuff, with Rylance's King and Farinelli both having their humorous character bits, separate and together, apart from their joint musical project. This play, by contrast, is all business, jumping into process, and hoping to suggest characterisation along the way. It's like a Sherlock Holmes mystery - "The mystery of the Two Wards" (2 gynaecological hospital wards, where one has so much more death than the other) - in which Rylance's Semmelweis is the sparky, single-minded, obsessed and brilliant Holmes-type, solving the mystery, but he has no Watson to joke around with, no Mycroft to one-upmanship, no great and passionate love to light his fire (he has a wife, but she just worries about him - they don't really relate). Luckily, the business at hand is brilliant, a fascinating and little known true story (that actually makes those antiseptic hand soaps we destroyed our hands with during the pandemic seem important and interesting lol), and the utilisation of music and dance in the telling is phenomenal - the moment when Rylance's principal patient, Chrissy Brooke's Lisa Elstein, who has died, does a death dance, wrapping herself around a perplexed Rylance is really terrific, and that's just one culmination of some fantastic ensemble dance, integrating onstage musicians. The show has a worthy villain in Alan Williams's slow-speaking, ever-pontificating malign reactionary, Johann Klein, and Pauline McLynn even gets to use her precision comic timing a couple of times in an otherwise serious role of the key nurse that Semmelweis consults with. Overall, the original story is important; Rylance is compelling, simultaneously a dynamic mystery solver and a toweringly tragic figure; and the music and dance linger in the memory. I just wish we'd got to know the characters a bit better before it all went down. A 4 star must-see from me.
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Post by cavocado on Jul 9, 2023 8:43:10 GMT
I agree with every word of Steve's review. Fascinating story and I loved the visuals and the integration of ballet and music into the storytelling, but I would have liked more character development and to feel more emotional connection to Semmelweis. That sounds like a major flaw in a play, but the other elements are so good that it's easily a 4 star production.
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Post by theatregoer22 on Jul 10, 2023 22:52:15 GMT
Unfortunately this wasn't for me. I found much of it tediously dull, the humour out of place and the ballet too abstract. Also, I don't know if it was intentional, but there were times when Mark Rylance spoke so quickly I couldn't catch all of what he was sayimg. The only parts that moved me were when we saw Dr Semmelweis with a patient and then right at the very end. Otherwise I spent much of the time looking at my watch to see how long was left. 2* for me.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2023 22:18:25 GMT
Has anyone seen this from the reduced price, pillar-in-view, Row C dress circle seats?
I’m sure I’ve sat there before for other shows and only found the restriction mildly annoying. But the price for those seats is about £60 less than the one next door which is unaffected. So I’m wondering if there’s a reason for it for this show?
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Post by alessia on Jul 12, 2023 4:15:27 GMT
Does anyone know where the Rush tickets and the day tickets are located?
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Post by rumbledoll on Jul 12, 2023 5:09:06 GMT
Does anyone know where the Rush tickets and the day tickets are located? Funny thing is I tried for Rush (as a rehearsal, to find out exactly the same) yesterday and it never appeared for this production in particular. I mean the red button it the App never turned to ‘Get Rush’ while for other productions it did at the same time. I even checked if I indeed unlocked them (which I did). Waited for 5 mins and gave up.
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Post by jm25 on Jul 12, 2023 6:22:07 GMT
Does anyone know where the Rush tickets and the day tickets are located? When I was having a look last week, on some days I got Row C stalls (right at the side) and on other days it was back of the stalls. Didn't end up buying, but the seats weren't selling instantly as a lot of the other Rush tickets do on TodayTix.
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Post by jm25 on Jul 12, 2023 6:23:07 GMT
Does anyone know where the Rush tickets and the day tickets are located? Funny thing is I tried for Rush (as a rehearsal, to find out exactly the same) yesterday and it never appeared for this production in particular. I mean the red button it the App never turned to ‘Get Rush’ while for other productions it did at the same time. I even checked if I indeed unlocked them (which I did). Waited for 5 mins and gave up. I believe it was Press Night yesterday!
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