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Post by kathryn on Nov 4, 2016 11:00:34 GMT
I had a very prompt reply from the Box Office email address asking me what date I want to exchange to, so I am hopeful that I've been quick enough to still get a good seat.
I was so please to have snagged central stalls so easily! That'll teach me for not updating my diary properly.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2016 11:16:32 GMT
Yup the Court are very good with exchanges...I changed my Unreachable ones twice in one week and they have always done their best to offer best comparable seats to that you've already bought.
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Post by quine on Nov 4, 2016 11:20:13 GMT
Damn, I knew that went too well - I've only gone and double-booked myself with Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf!! Chances of them letting me exchange?? I've always found the Royal Court Box Office staff to be very friendly and extremely helpful. |
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Post by kathryn on Nov 4, 2016 14:11:44 GMT
I hadn't heard back with any confirmation yet, so I gave in and called the box office. Now moved to the evening of 20th may, row B in the circle.
So if anyone wants D6 in the stalls on 29th April at 2.30pm, it should be popping back up shortly!
Properly kicking myself now - should have phoned instead of emailing earlier, would have got a much better seat! There is now very limited availability.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2016 15:25:36 GMT
Anybody else heard the rumours of Tom Hiddleston being in The Ferryman? Couple of things on Twitter. Interesting.
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Post by kathryn on Nov 4, 2016 18:23:12 GMT
Anybody else heard the rumours of Tom Hiddleston being in The Ferryman? Couple of things on Twitter. Interesting. Ha! I think I might have inadvertently started that one. All I actually said was I'd like to see him do more theatre and this would be perfect, but I said it on Tumblr. Within half an hour the person whose post I had commented on was posting all the details, and she has loads of followers, so it spread. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2016 18:34:41 GMT
Anybody else heard the rumours of Tom Hiddleston being in The Ferryman? Couple of things on Twitter. Interesting. Well he needs to do something like that to give him back a bit of credibility following the Hiddleswift debacle. That's damaged him massively I think. |
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Post by alnoor on Nov 4, 2016 18:46:30 GMT
Ferryman is proving popular
It's now sold out!
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Post by kathryn on Nov 4, 2016 18:51:34 GMT
They must be targeting a West End transfer, don't you think?
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Post by alnoor on Nov 4, 2016 18:55:17 GMT
Butterworth and Mendes combination should be electric.
Now wait for the casting.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2016 18:55:52 GMT
With Sonia Friedman and Sam Mendes involved, and such a short run? Indubitably. Glad it's sold out, they should be more than amenable to taking back my extra ticket.  |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2016 18:56:07 GMT
Have you read today's Guardian article where Mackenzie Crook is quoted as saying Jez Butterworth had only part-written Jerusalem when rehearsals started? |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2016 23:17:30 GMT
With Sonia Friedman and Sam Mendes involved, and such a short run? Indubitably. Glad it's sold out, they should be more than amenable to taking back my extra ticket. What day is it for? I was working all day with no access to the internet so will have to wait until more tickets go on sale otherwise.  EDIT: Unless they extend a week I'm only available for the matinee of 29th April, so it's a big long shot! Booked for Nuclear War and Road okay though. |
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Post by foxa on Nov 4, 2016 23:26:27 GMT
I booked 10ish this morning - no queuing. Booked for the debbie tucker green play Upstairs; and 'The Kid' and 'The Ferryman' Downstairs.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2016 23:41:14 GMT
Everything in the season is tantalisingly promising but also highly unpredictable, with so little information available about any of the shows. Even with Road, a very wellknown text, we know absolutely nothing about the planned production except that John Tiffany is directing and it's the traditional audience seating configuration. But Simon McBurney's and Alice Birch & Katie Mitchell's shows could both be absolutely anything at this stage. It seems odd that a new writing theatre is programming nearly a year ahead, and with every single writer having already had at least nine previous works produced, but I suppose we can't have everything. What we're promised is quite special.
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Post by mrbarnaby on Nov 5, 2016 0:40:41 GMT
They must be targeting a West End transfer, don't you think? Yes it's already booked it's theatre |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2016 8:37:42 GMT
They must be targeting a West End transfer, don't you think? Yes it's already booked it's theatre Wyndhams anyone?!? |
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Post by kathryn on Nov 5, 2016 8:57:51 GMT
With Sonia Friedman and Sam Mendes involved, and such a short run? Indubitably. Glad it's sold out, they should be more than amenable to taking back my extra ticket. What day is it for? I was working all day with no access to the internet so will have to wait until more tickets go on sale otherwise. EDIT: Unless they extend a week I'm only available for the matinee of 29th April, so it's a big long shot! Booked for Nuclear War and Road okay though. I returned a ticket for that performance yesterday afternoon, so worth checking to see if it has popped back up. |
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Post by foxa on Nov 5, 2016 9:11:57 GMT
Now I'm wondering if I should have booked for the Alice Birch play....
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Post by showgirl on Nov 5, 2016 10:08:13 GMT
The combination of a not-particularly-appealing season (on the limited info currently available) and the steep price rises dissuaded me from even trying to book anything at this stage. I will just have to take a chance on getting a ticket nearer the time for anything which starts to sound promising. Shocked that the concession price in the Upstairs space has risen from £15 to £20, i.e. a third. Fair enough to raise it a few pounds but that's swingeing. Catch my pension going up by 33%!
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Post by n1david on Nov 5, 2016 12:12:56 GMT
I couldn't get Ferryman tix sent out, but was OK on The Kid (had to do two separate bookings because the website messed up, I've been charged three times for The Kid...) so I assume it's to stop the secondary market.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2016 13:52:31 GMT
Now I'm wondering if I should have booked for the Alice Birch play.... I didn't want to because she was partly responsible for the most execreble piece of rubbish I've EVER seen on stage, but I've booked it anyway. And this is why I never have any money... |
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Post by foxa on Nov 5, 2016 14:22:18 GMT
These tough choices....Someone said they'd seen a production of one of her plays in Boston and liked it.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2016 14:41:42 GMT
Yeah, my Twitter feed is quite enthusiastic about some of her stuff, so for £12 I may as well give her another go. Maybe (and I realise this is crazy optimism here) Katie Mitchell will help corral her words into a good play.
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Post by Latecomer on Nov 5, 2016 14:59:07 GMT
I saw Birch's play Revolt at Stratford and was very taken with it....I liked the poetry of it. I have booked a cheap circle slip on the basis that maybe it won't matter if I can't see everything!!! And my bank balance can only stand so much booking before Christmas!
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