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Post by drmaplewood on Nov 16, 2016 17:45:44 GMT
Just been to the box office. Day seats are the front row of stalls and are a fiver. However the reason they are so cheap is because the stage is higher than they anticipated so you won't be able to see the back or the stage.
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Post by rumbledoll on Nov 16, 2016 18:17:02 GMT
Was in one of these seats yesterday - it's frightfully high but 98% of the action happens stagefront so not much trouble with the view. Best fiver ever spent in theatre!
It was the first preview so only 3 of us before 9, then they started arriving in masses.
The play itself is wonderfully whimsical with an existential thinking flavour.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2016 18:19:09 GMT
Anyone dressed as fish yet?
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Post by deadyankee on Nov 16, 2016 18:33:33 GMT
Anyone dressed as fish yet? No, but I'm planning on turning up and doing a poor-man's approximation of early Genesis |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2016 19:29:31 GMT
Anyone dressed as fish yet? When I attended Pandaemonium: The True Cost of Coal, a site-specific theatre show about the Senghenydd mining disaster of 1913, staged in Morriston Tabernacle Chapel, Swansea, I was congratulated by the company administrator for coming in historic costume, as encouraged in pre-publicity. I was a bit annoyed by his presumption as I was just wearing my usual winter coat. However, it would be far worse to be accused of being dressed as a fish. |
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Post by lynette on Nov 16, 2016 21:30:00 GMT
Was in one of these seats yesterday - it's frightfully high but 98% of the action happens stagefront so not much trouble with the view. Best fiver ever spent in theatre! It was the first preview so only 3 of us before 9, then they started arriving in masses. The play itself is wonderfully whimsical with an existential thinking flavour. Good try rumbledoll but this isn't enough: whimsical and existential? |
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Post by rumbledoll on Nov 18, 2016 11:54:57 GMT
Was in one of these seats yesterday - it's frightfully high but 98% of the action happens stagefront so not much trouble with the view. Best fiver ever spent in theatre! It was the first preview so only 3 of us before 9, then they started arriving in masses. The play itself is wonderfully whimsical with an existential thinking flavour. Good try rumbledoll but this isn't enough: whimsical and existential?
Sorry to disappoint )) What would you like to know? It's one of those pieces which gives the audience a chance to decide on for themselves. My kind of thing 
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Post by rumbledoll on Nov 18, 2016 12:41:20 GMT
It might be tricky to low the ice floe (as it stands on some support) but they certainly can make the slope a bit steeper.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2016 14:43:06 GMT
I'm told that they hope to try and do something about the front row view over the weekend. Encourage the front row to dress up as submariners and to view the show via periscope? |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2016 21:22:42 GMT
God
Awful
Left after 30 mins this evening
Have had more fun taking a sh*t
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Post by theatrefan77 on Nov 19, 2016 21:39:04 GMT
I thought it was ok. Mildly entertaining. Mark Rylance is great and the main reason to see this.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2016 21:51:58 GMT
I thought it was ok. Mildly entertaining. Mark Rylance is great and the main reason to see this. He really isn't great in this Let's be honest |
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Post by popcultureboy on Nov 20, 2016 9:37:52 GMT
God Awful Left after 30 mins this evening Have had more fun taking a sh*t You like so little of what you see and are so unpleasant in your vitriol, it makes your opinion pretty worthless. |
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Post by ldm2016 on Nov 21, 2016 13:14:01 GMT
God Awful Left after 30 mins this evening Have had more fun taking a sh*t You like so little of what you see and are so unpleasant in your vitriol, it makes your opinion pretty worthless. I've said before that he should be banned. |
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Post by bellboard27 on Nov 21, 2016 14:02:47 GMT
I found this OK, but not more. As rumbledoll says, it is whimsical. Visual gaps and increasingly surreal as it continues. Rylance puts in a steady performance, but it does not up there with other performances of his.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2016 14:24:25 GMT
Love it when people who've made about 60 posts start demanding that people who've made over 500 should be banned.
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Post by Latecomer on Nov 21, 2016 14:31:35 GMT
Love it when people who've made about 60 posts start demanding that people who've made over 500 should be banned. Agreed! Leave Parsley alone! I don't always agree with his opinions and some of them are a bit blunt but I have booked more than one show on the basis that he liked it and have never regretted it! If you are annoyed that he likes so little, just move on to the next post! |
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Post by ldm2016 on Nov 21, 2016 14:50:40 GMT
Love it when people who've made about 60 posts start demanding that people who've made over 500 should be banned. How many of his 500 posts have added anything to this site?
The man is a troll at best and an outright fantasist liar at worst.
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Post by Latecomer on Nov 21, 2016 15:52:48 GMT
Love it when people who've made about 60 posts start demanding that people who've made over 500 should be banned. How many of his 500 posts have added anything to this site?
See post above by me. |
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Post by Marwood on Nov 21, 2016 16:55:29 GMT
I've had some disagreements with Parsley in the past, but lets be honest, this would be a terrible, dull place if every person posting here just said they loved whatever they'd seen and that was it.
I'm more likely to take more away from reading one person saying a play was sh*te if they can back up their reasons for saying so, and at least try to put a bit of wit into doing so, rather than 10 people saying something is great just because it has someone out of a film or TV series in it, regardless of their performance or the play/musicals production values.
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Post by rumbledoll on Nov 21, 2016 19:21:58 GMT
I found this OK, but not more. As rumbledoll says, it is whimsical. Visual gaps and increasingly surreal as it continues. Rylance puts in a steady performance, but it does not up there with other performances of his.
Agree though I adored the sequence at the end when {Spoiler - click to view}
they talk about how life resembles films (many true statements here that made me laugh out loud) and Rylance does an incredible physical transformation into an old lady. |
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Post by bellboard27 on Nov 21, 2016 19:24:45 GMT
I found this OK, but not more. As rumbledoll says, it is whimsical. Visual gaps and increasingly surreal as it continues. Rylance puts in a steady performance, but it does not up there with other performances of his.
Agree though I adored the sequence at the end when {Spoiler - click to view}
they talk about how life resembles films (many true statements here that made me laugh out loud) and Rylance does an incredible physical transformation into an old lady. Agreed! |
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Post by kathryn on Nov 21, 2016 19:52:10 GMT
Love it when people who've made about 60 posts start demanding that people who've made over 500 should be banned. How many of his 500 posts have added anything to this site?
The man is a troll at best and an outright fantasist liar at worst.
The board has an ignore function. I highly recommend it: ignore a member by clicking on their user name, then click on the small arrow down on the i button on the very right, choose Block Member, tick the appropriate boxes and confirm. Read more: theatreboard.co.uk/thread/65/theatreboard-faqs#ixzz4QfthKIWN |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2016 19:59:22 GMT
Shame you can't block admin members
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Post by CG on the loose on Nov 22, 2016 21:50:49 GMT
Don't ask me to explain why (although I guess I'm going to try anyway!)... but I loved this. It's quirky, surreal quality suited my mood perfectly and I laughed lots, smiled more and left the theatre beaming. Mark Rylance was Mark Rylance, exactly as I expected to find him, and that was no disappointment - it was, after all, primarily why I booked. But I also thought Jim Lichtscheidl was a perfect foil for him, essential for the whimsy to work.
I was sat in Row C, and at 5'6" had no problem seeing the stage, including the various puppets at the start and later, so I think perhaps they have indeed improved the sight lines a little.
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