Giant - Royal Court / Harold Pinter Theatre

They go on sale at 9.00 (or sometimes a couple of minutes before).

Stick with it, you need to refresh the page continually....I've just got a stalls place at 0945...I didn't even bother queuing at 9am this time

Ah well done! I kept refreshing until 9.20am and then gave up, should have stuck with it.



Thank you Andrew, I will DM you.

I'm guessing either the Noel Coward or the Harold Pinter, possibly April/May time? Going off of actor's schedules

Either one would be great.

Whilst the acting is top rate

The play leaves a lot to be desired

The themes explored are well established

And I personally feel a play is a very basic way of trying to tackle what is effectively exploration of human hatred

Some people don’t like marmite

Is it just inane and has no justification and is immune to endless debates

In fact they briefly touch on this

And then skate away quickly

For me there was about 10 minutes of really excellent dialogue

With the rest being circulated themes to the extent of recycling until stale

What I did take away was how a view of someone’s “work” (in the broadest sense of that term) can be affected by their beliefs and what they say and their views

But again this is not so complex really and doesn’t need endless analysis

Dahl was just a good children’s writer AND anti semite

When someone walks out on stage to give an announcement, you can’t help but fear the star is ill. Unfortunately one of the leads was off, Romola Garai, but Tessa Bonham Jones was really excellent stepping in (script in hand) and her role was taken by the assistant director who managed to get a mid-scene round of applause with one of her lines.

I’d avoided reading much of anything, and was taken aback by just how much of an attack on Dahl this play is, they really don’t hold back on the anti-Semitic stuff. It’s such an interesting counterpoint, Lithgow giving this magical and engaging performance of a beloved author whilst spouting out such vile stuff. The strength of his performance carries the whole thing through, but you can’t help but feel that the play doesn’t really have anywhere to go after the interval, once you’ve established what Dahl said, how he feels about Israel and Jewish people and what those around him are trying to achieve. It touches on the age old riddle of whether you can separate an artist from their work, but doesn’t get too far into it. It touches on where the anti-semitism of Dahl comes from but doesn’t get too far into it. It touches on if you can reason or rationalise a man’s en-bloc hatred of entire races of people, but doesn’t get too far into it. Maybe it needed to pick something and go a bit further. I really enjoyed myself but if you had a less compelling actor in the main role I think the play would look a bit threadbare.

I’m really glad I saw it, and especially glad to see it with samuel1980, alongside it turns out Stellan Skarsgard, Damien Lewis, Toby Stephens amongst other faces, not sure how many of those are board members.

I think Stirling was outstanding and better than Lithgow

It's a 3/5 play elevated to a 4/5 show by a strong cast. (I saw it with Romola Garai.)

It reminds me of that play Hansard which was flavour of the month for 4 or 5 weeks and which subsequently left no trace. It's a decent evening at the theatre, mildly amusing, and well acted but there's not a lot going on under the bonnet. It's a sign of the times if this is the hot play right now.

It will be the Apollo. Romola Garai has been confirmed as leaving the Harold Pinter run of The Years on March 8th, so I would expect the first preview of this at the Apollo to be somewhere in the week beginning March 10th. 

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Welcome back popcultureboy!

Elliot is doing Hamlet until 29th March.