All’s Well That Ends Well - Jermyn Street

Sadly, no. This is a play I haven’t seen as often as the rest. Saw the Judi Dench one. But just couldn’t fit it in.
I have booked some Jermyn Street for next year already. Impressive programme.

Glad you liked it too. Haven't seen too many reviews. Already looking forward to Tempest next year.

I'll do my best, Jan: it's been on my radar since I read the reviews from an earlier venue. A production has to be special to make me depart from my normal "no more Shakespeare" rule and this did sound exceptional; just that £30 is double my average spend so I'll wait to see if it comes to that.

Pleased a thread has been started on this excellent production.

From the minute the inspired soundtrack kicks in the production flows superlatively to its conclusion, considered a problem play which this production traverses brilliantly, the swap scene that always feels and adjunct to the plot in measure for measure is especially in this production realised in a way that supports a reconciliation of equals in its denouement.

Tempted to see again as this play is rarely produced and unlikely to be bettered in the near future.

The small cast are wonderful, the musicianship top notch and the soundtrack superb.

Yes I think in their new season the prices are all down a bit. Tempest has the potential to be very good, Tom Littler has directed Pennington before in Dance of Death and that was good.

Guys, such are your powers of persuasion, I have reordered my entire life and got tix for Saturday night. Anyone else going then? Thank you for making me see my priorities clearly 😂

I did know about the £15 tix, but I think they were only for 2 weekday evenings (previews?) when I was unable to go, & the concession rates also ended, albeit mid-run. Still, that's literally the price you pay for having so much else booked in advance. Some of the productions I did choose turned out to be less well-reviewed (eg Blank & Vassa), but hedging my bets has cost me only £10 a go.

Anyway, at this rate, with the enthusiasm here, board members alone will ensure that the rest of the run sells out.

S’ok, learfan, a glass of Prosecco perhaps if we ever meet....she looks into the gloom longingly..er, whatever.

Really ? Let's hope he doesn't draw any inspiration from that production. It's a point I was going to make about this production - I see quite a lot of these fringe-type cut/reduced cast Shakespeare productions, there has been a tendency in recent years for directors to present them simplistically and broadly almost as if they were children's shows - Littler is more like a throwback to a style of directing we had in the 1970-80s where small-scale productions wouldn't be dumbed down at all but would be theatrically a bit more sophisticated. Littler here has taken the constraints of a small space and a small cast and made a virtue of that necessity by making those two things absolutely central to the concept of the production - it's very clever. 

Since Andrew Hilton stepped down a couple of years ago they've been on a downward trajectory. 

lynette pleased you enjoyed it, never in doubt really, it is a wonderful production.

See! Me and Brocky did say. Have you booked for Tempest?

If the internet can, on this occasion, be trusted, then I'm afraid you're delusional. Sorry!

HG has two sons, Orlando and Harrison, and Ceri-Lyn Cissone was born in North Wales.

Was that the RSC/Trevor Nunn production with Peggy Ashcroft? That was a fine production, and the only time I've seen Dame Peggy on stage.  I also liked, though not quite as much, the 2009 NT/Marianne Elliott production.