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Post by Dave B on Jan 26, 2023 10:42:08 GMT
I was sure there was a thread but I can't find it now.
8 APR - 6 MAY 2023
Transferring to the main stage at Hampstead. Says booking opens 19 Jan but no booking link so I assume a typo and will go on sale early next week.
We missed this due to illness so will be seeing it this time around for sure.
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Post by drmaplewood on Jan 26, 2023 11:30:23 GMT
It was in the Hampstead thread I think.
Just had the e-mail.
Priority Booking is now open!
Public Booking opens Tuesday 31 January at 10.30am.
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Post by alessia on Jan 26, 2023 15:07:15 GMT
Loved this play, I am definitely going again and will bring friends.
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Post by drmaplewood on Jan 31, 2023 11:04:50 GMT
Now on sale, with some on-stage seating too.
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Post by Dave B on Jan 31, 2023 11:09:37 GMT
Main stage pricing. Oof. Fingers crossed this sells for them and helps the funding hole.
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Post by Dave B on Mar 16, 2023 14:37:17 GMT
May not be selling so well. All seats £10 for 5 Saturday nights from April 08 per email out now.
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Post by alessia on Mar 16, 2023 15:07:54 GMT
Real shame if it doesn't sell, I liked it very much downstairs. Was thinking of going again but there is just too much else to see.
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Post by barelyathletic on Apr 12, 2023 10:05:49 GMT
Seeing this again next week. One of my best of the year in 2022. It's really not selling though. Some coverage over the weekend, interviewing Joe White and Rebecca Humphries, but things have gone really wrong at Hampstead when they can't get an audience into this. Sad.  |
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Post by foxa on Apr 12, 2023 11:29:46 GMT
This is something I would like to see and am not sure why I haven't booked for it.
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Post by Dave B on Apr 15, 2023 21:46:34 GMT
Saw it this evening.
The stage has been moved forward with rows A through C gone and then four rows have been added on the other side, now also labelled as stalls. I'm sure they were 'on stage' when announced. A very full Saturday night but then, all tickets were £10. The seats we had are normally £45.. which I think might be putting off a lot of people.
Anyways, thought this was just great. Felt the relationship even through the haze and the co-dependency. Thought both Rebecca Humphries and Alex Austin were great. Set and direction work very well, lighting moving in and out of clubs and booze and noise (at least suggesting them) and then moving to just the two of them. 100% feel like we missed something not seeing this Downstairs last year but very glad to have seen it now.
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Post by greenswan on Apr 16, 2023 14:22:21 GMT
Saw this on Friday - probably not a good decision after a tiring week. The jumps around the timeline were less well done than in Lemons x5 for me. Theatre was about 40% full.
Wasn't able to connect with the characters (which may well be down to me) but this is not well staged 'in the round'. The actors have their back towards respective audiences for long stretches of time. Use of the revolve at one point was laughable - it barely moved.
Not for me, this one.
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Post by foxa on Apr 26, 2023 22:44:42 GMT
I was glad to have seen this after missing its Downstairs run. I thought it was a pretty impressive play/production - though aspects of the relationship were frustrating to me (perhaps I felt a bit of what greenswan mentions - certainly I didn't identify with the characters) but I was held by it. The way it twists an almost meet-cute beginning into something deeper and more desperate; the unreliability of their accounts; the rapid-fire dialogue and scene changes and then somehow sticking the landing of what I thought was a difficult ending. Plus Kate Bush's Hounds of Love. |
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Post by jr on Apr 29, 2023 6:08:23 GMT
I saw this last Thursday, at 90 minutes it felt really long. I was interested at the beginning of the play: fragmented scenes, blackouts, mixed memories. Unfortunately, it soon became repetitive. I felt there was no change after 20-30 minutes so I was bored for the last hour. Rebecca Humphries' performance was one-note but I haven't seen her before so not sure if it was how the character was written or how she was directed. I truly disliked Alex Austin's acting: the constant twitching, strange fingers position, etc. made for a very superficial performance. It is the type of acting that annoys me and puts me off (recent examples of this type of acting were Lia Williams and Will Keen, but then people love them and they get awards so it must be me). It wasn't terrible but I did not enjoy it. Maybe it was a mistake for Hampstead to put it upstairs, it was half empty and a lot of comp tickets.
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Post by orchidman on May 1, 2023 21:48:13 GMT
"I'd rather be a good liver than have one"
This is a well-written play although I'm not sure the Zeller-esque unreliable memories really justified their inclusion.
The leading man is irritating as said above. Why are so many male leading parts at present written and acted as complete drips? We possibly needed to see his paintings to really believe the relationship. There was definitely an element of: "Is she really going out with him?"
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