Shakespeare Season - Theatre Royal Drury Lane

Surprised at the price of these tickets, some really good seats for decent prices.

Got a ticket for January to double it up with Oedipus with Manville and Strong.

When it comes to Much Ado, I saw him in Betrayal and her in Measure for Measure, so I’m not too bothered about sitting that one out.

No double-edged sword involved.

It's possible to send out the email link, well in advance, where the link already includes a unique token for accessing Queue.Id, such that, if you open multiple browsers, even across different devices, you still get the same queue position with Queue.Id.

Another site I buy from regularly uses that feature and it works correctly.   You can still gain an advantage by registering different email addresses, but this would then require you to have multiple LWT accounts, each with a valid physical address at which the credit card was registered.

LW Theatres have a long way to go.  And their website was being very glitchy today.  I was told my paymemt had failed.  It then errored re-attempting, which turned out not to be surprising, as the original had in fact gone through.  There were also various errors along the way to contend with that should not have happened if it was coded robustly.

I think Drury Lane being massive means you can get cheaper seats in more places.

Will be interesting to see if Much Ado with Tom Hiddleston has faster sales.

That was what I thought. I got a stalls seat that I’d have gladly paid more for had they charged more.

I reckon Much Ado will fly out given Tom’s involvement. I booked Tempest because I’m a huge sci-fi fan who also happens to be a Shakespeare fan so this hits all the right notes.

Hiddleston doing Shakespeare is always a draw with the general public as his reputation is as a Shakespeare guy. Hiddleston doing a Shakespeare *comedy* is going to be a treat for those who have seriously followed his theatre career, and remember how funny he was in Cymbeline, and Coriolanus, and even Hamlet. The man has funny bones and a gift for verse-speaking.

It’s hard to go far wrong with Much Ado anyway - the template for all romantic comedies ever after - this combination bodes very well.

Exactly the same fear that's stopped me pulling the trigger on the purchase button so far...I would only able to do one of the midweek matinee shows in January and I'd be booking solely on the basis of Weaver, if she wasn't performing that afternoon I really couldn't justify the cost of travel/accommodation/ticket.