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Post by basi1faw1ty on Apr 15, 2018 18:54:03 GMT
Haven't tried 'em. Think they'll convert me? It's a theatreboard ex-communication level issue if you don't In all seriousness (and I take my cake based discussion VERY seriously) the Lemon Lime ones are very refreshing, and a bit different to the regular kind. First of all, HOW VERY DARE YOU insult the mighty Jaffa . Secondly, M&S sell what??? I'm THERE!
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Apr 15, 2018 18:41:55 GMT
I've seen behind the scenes pics of props and costumes and part of the set, and it all seems close in keeping with the time period at least. Where JHG's supposed maverick direction will come into play with this I'm not sure.
(Side note: turns out AH is not the longest play I'd've seen so far. When you take out the intervals, it falls 5 minutes short of the Simon Godwin-directed Strange Interlude, which is/was also a Lyttelton prod.)
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Apr 13, 2018 17:01:08 GMT
Erm... I don't want to potentially put anybody off seeing this but... That run time is quite something. Of course this could alter as the weeks go by, but my goodness me. I know there are numerous plays that go on for much longer than this, but this'll be the lengthiest production I've witnessed to date.
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Apr 13, 2018 12:08:20 GMT
Peanut butter is disgusting. I don't see the big deal with it at all.
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Apr 13, 2018 9:53:00 GMT
It's only just dawned on me that my annual theatre visit to London has landed on the same weekend as both the Royal Wedding AND the FA Cup final.
Any survival tips?
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Apr 10, 2018 9:46:16 GMT
Oh darn it everybody, now you're making me reconsider my options.
Yes I'm aware of the cheaper seats TM mentioned earlier, just I'd love to be on the stage, having just missed out such an opportunity with This House. I'm very picky.
I'll keep coming back and checking the prices however. You never know, Delf Mac might just ammend their prices? They've done it twice already so...
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Apr 9, 2018 16:36:25 GMT
I'm excited for this (not because my favourite actor is a lead, oh no, notforthatreasonwhatsoever).
My only issue is what Joe Hill-Gibbins is gonna do to it, having read about his past productions, notably his Midsummer Night's Dream. The play is controversial to start with (at least it was back in the 50s or whenever it was penned, partly due to having the lead male be a gay character), so I'm slightly anxious what he has up his sleeve. Also I rather like this play and don't want anything bad to happen to it.
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Apr 9, 2018 12:21:56 GMT
I have been fascinated with this whole so called 'Major Fraud' scandal for a while but the fact that the prices are so steep has put me off completely, not to mention as I said earlier the stage seats were up until a few days ago half and less than half the price they are now, which still has me absolutely raging. The Play That Goes Wrong has no starry cast but even that is far cheaper (and probably a far better show). Don't get me wrong, Greg Haiste, Sarah Woodward, and that Benidorm chap are good actors, but even they can't draw me in.
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Apr 7, 2018 9:36:02 GMT
So I bought a chocolate dinosaur in M&S (it was half price, and dinosaurs are apparently an Easter thing now according to M&S), then my sister gave me a half-price Twirl egg, then work gave me a second choccy egg.
And there's another useless contribution to the thread by moi.
Sorry.
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Apr 2, 2018 8:36:29 GMT
Yesterday: So April is here. Finally I can go out and enjoy some actual Spring weather for a change and not have to deal with all that horridness we had in March. This morning: Yep, that lovely Spring weather.
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Apr 1, 2018 8:06:53 GMT
With all the recent horrific events that’s occurred over the past couple years, I can understand theatres updating their policies about bags and the like, but it is annoying, I agree to an extent. In 2015 the NT could easily let me leave a large backpack and shopping bags in the cloakroom. Now if your bag exceeds a certain size, it’ll be liable to checks or even refusal. And some theatres won’t accept backpacks etc at all, bag checks or no bag checks.
When I visit in May, I don’t leave London until 7pm meaning I will have to take my suitcase with me, and I’m attending a Sunday matinee at the Cri, which doesn't allow suitcases at all, even tiny ones like mine. I will have to leave it at a station or use something called Citystasher (where for £6 you can leave your bags at a drop off point, usually a corner shop, and pick them up later in the day), and I’ve heard it is very good.
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Mar 30, 2018 7:42:18 GMT
Work let me have an Easter Egg and Creme Egg even though I’m just a lowly zero hours contract worker. T’was a thoughtful gesture.
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Mar 30, 2018 7:29:39 GMT
My first ever thread (eek, don’t hurt me!) and actually I’m slightly surprised no one has mentioned this but CE is attending his first ever Comic Con this year, after refusing to attend such events for several years now (and who can blame him? I’ve attended cons several times and while they are fun, being a well known face at those places is hell on earth). Some people are ecstatic, but that’s not what got people talking over Twitter. The prices the hosts (London Film and Comic Con) are charging for you to attain his autograph or have his picture taken with you are astronomical. Plus, depending on demand, even if you paid nearly £100 (I’m not kidding) for an autograph it is still not entirely guaranteed. Oh no, if you want a guaranteed picture and autograph you have to shell out a whopping £235 for some rubbish called a diamond pass. I think the hosts must’ve offered CE quite a whopping paycheque to secure his appearance, which could explain the outrageous prices. How desperate must you be to have to do that? He (and David Tennant, but mostly him) made Doctor Who for me and he is a great actor, but paying all that to let him scribble on a bit of paper, with no 100% guarantee you will actually get it either? And anyway, for less than half that price you can stage door him after Macbeth and more likely than not get a photo and autograph there (plus you can watch him actually act in front of you for 2 hours instead of paying £100 to watch him sit behind a table writing his name for 2 hours). It’s also worth noting that Peter Capaldi is attending the same event, and getting his autograph is actually cheaper than CE’s. www.londonfilmandcomiccon.com/index.php/9-lfcc-guests/london-guests-filmandtv/1045-christopher-ecclestonAny views on this?
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Mar 29, 2018 15:40:57 GMT
My stage seat was £15 when I booked a month or so ago. Don't know if I got lucky with dynamic pricing, but there were loads of £15 ones about then. They were... h-how mUCH?
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Mar 29, 2018 15:31:42 GMT
I did find it odd that there are still more than 35 stage seats available for the performance I'm seeing, but if this is a trick, it's a very strange one to play! EDIT: stage seats are still £27.50 for performances up to and including 19th April, then shoot up in price from there. Either get in early or wait for the dynamic pricing to realise it's scaring people away and come back down again. Exactly! I was planning to see it in June as part of a fun weekend romp down south, and all but one stage seat had been taken for the day I wanted, so they weren't exactly selling like hot cakes to begin with. What on earth are Delf Mac and co. thinking?? And say what? They're £27 up until 19th April? No way I can make that. ARGH!!
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Mar 29, 2018 14:16:07 GMT
The stage seats used to be £27 up until today. I went to book and they've shot up to £42! I don't feel as keen now. Is it *that* good to justify the price rise?
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Mar 26, 2018 9:55:02 GMT
Got accidentally caught up in the Pro EU march/parade/protest in Leeds on Saturday. The crowd (constantly baying "Exit from Brexit") was lead by a van carrying a grotesque statue of a monster with the heads of Theresa May, Boris, David Davis, and an MP I didn't recognise, with the words "Brexit is a Monstrosity" tattooed across its chest. It was well made but not for the faint of heart.
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Mar 23, 2018 13:28:05 GMT
Oh for heaven's sake, that's... ugh! UGH!! I nearly brought up my lunch!
(Entirely my fault ofc, I couldn't resist clicking the link even though you warned us.)
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Mar 18, 2018 8:49:09 GMT
Glad to hear this is getting love. But then I would expect nothing less given the marvellous Christopher Eccles cake is in it
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Mar 18, 2018 8:42:54 GMT
Ahh I did wonder about Friday rush but have only ever been offered seats much further back so worth knowing they do potentially exist. First time I did Friday Rush I was given a circle seat, about 3 rows from the back of the Lyttelton. It was atrocious. I felt so far away from the action, plus I missed bits of dialogue thanks to a mixture of poor sound, the distance from the stage, and audience chatter, and I've been put off FR ever since. But seeing all these reports of people grabbing front row seats etc has me curious to attempt it again. (The NT doesn't like me buying more than 2 Entry Pass tickets if it's for the same production so I'm considering the FR route.) (I will admit though I was in a hurry the day I bought it and thought I should just accept the first ticket offered me or else I wouldn't get one at all.)
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Mar 17, 2018 21:07:22 GMT
Hi de hi!
Production recs... Urm... Well I mean, I'm a bit rubbish at rec-ing people, plus I've never seen any of the big musicals in Theatreland (not a big musical person tbh *le gasp*) so I can't say anything there, but I can suggest The Globe for £5 (if you're into The Bard and enjoy standing up at the mercy of the weather), some National Theatre plays perhaps, or as Elle already mentioned, an NT tour, and/or The Play That Goes Wrong (and/or its cousin, The Comedy About A Bank Robbery, though as of posting this, I have yet to view it); cheap as chips (in general not just thru TKTS) and a great antidepressant.
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Mar 13, 2018 13:15:48 GMT
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Mar 13, 2018 10:55:38 GMT
I hope Fleetwood is gonna pull it off, especially after watching the TV version on YT. Judi is extraordinary in that. I've never seen Fleetwood live so I'm not sure what to expect.
They started rehearsals last Monday but the NT have kept quiet about it, which I find odd. They usually like to inform us of such things.
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Mar 8, 2018 11:00:39 GMT
I've been quietly observing from the sidelines as this went on and was anticipating the reviews to be bad, but I didn't expect it to be absolutely slaughtered like this! What a trainwreck!
Poor Duff and Kinnear. They deserve much better.
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Mar 7, 2018 17:49:40 GMT
Speaking of Boris, I was reminded of an experience from someone on Twitter who spotted Mr Johnson at the Globe a while back, watching Simon Godwin's Richard II. This had me snickering a lot:
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Mar 2, 2018 6:41:30 GMT
Patricia Hodge is playing Bohr's wife. That's the cast complete, and with her added I have now become rather desperate to see this.
Such fun!
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Feb 28, 2018 18:43:44 GMT
A guy collapsed on my bus home. I didn't see it happen, just heard this massive THUMP. He apparently slipped on the wet floor. Ambulance came. Another passenger and the driver were proping him up so he didn't fall back down. He was conscious, but he was refusing to get up off the floor from his sitting position. The ambulance lady was getting very impatient with him. He was clearly under the influence of something, drink, drugs, whatever. Took 10 minutes to haul him off.
I was going to post something boring about the snow etc but as I was typing it out on my phone, the above happened. Heh.
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Feb 25, 2018 11:24:44 GMT
I live near Bradford, and my local (big) theatres are the Alhambra and the West Yorkshire Playhouse (25 min train to Leeds). To get to London takes me a reasonable 3 hours in total, costing £32 return on the train (only if booked waaaaaaaay in advance), and nearly 5 hours on the National Express. London is quite a way down, yes, and I am envious of you southern folk However I have managed to do the day return matinee as Elanor mentioned (I even squeezed in the stage door - not literally) and be back on home soil for 10pm.
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Feb 24, 2018 15:29:05 GMT
Not the theatre, but the cinema. Watching Black Panther last night. Missed dialogue due to some incessant rustling from someone trying to open up/eat from a large crisp packet to my right. Also on my right, a man and his son began talking very loudly to one another because the boy desperately needed the loo. So off they went, running past me down the stairs. Another disturbance. And later on, of course, a phone goes off, presumably from the same person(s), as it was coming from, again, the right of me. A triple whammy.
Additional note: unless I was sat in the worst place ever, I thought the sound mixing was awful at my cinema! The bg music was louder than some of the dialogue in important scenes and I was almost straining myself trying to hear.
This was however nothing compared to my experiences watching Rogue One and Paddington 2. R1 was being constantly disrupted by rowdy tween males and P2 was being constantly disrupted by rowdy tween females. In both instances, they were eventually reprimanded by someone in the audience (a middle aged man for the boys, a middle aged woman for the girls), who either turned round to them or stood up and approached them to tell them to shut their traps. The man said, "I did not pay all this money to listen to you lot behaving like idiots!" The woman said, "We've paid a lot of money to see this, so could you just shut your faces!"
Slightly creepy coincidences there, ha!
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Feb 19, 2018 13:25:52 GMT
I haven't had the privilege of being blessed with adverts on here, probably due to having AdBlock installed.
However Tumblr has bypassed that and gives me ads for mobile war games, even though I never have and never will play those types of games in my entire life. But then I think everybody who has a Tumblr gets these ads, regardless of Internet history.
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