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Post by schuttep on Apr 19, 2017 8:38:13 GMT
Why didn't The Bridge e-mail it's subscribers with details of the shows available earlier so that they could have a) thought about what they wanted to book, and b) decided if they wanted to buy memberships to take advantage of priority booking?
Maybe they have learned a lesson...?? If you can teach old hands new tricks!!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2017 8:53:21 GMT
Does sound like an interesting season but I can't see any of these selling out a 900 seat theatre. Nightfall in particular sounds like the kind of thing the Royal Court (capacity 380) would put on.
So Julius Caesar sounds like there will be 250 promenade tickets + 650 seated tickets?
I like the warning for the Barney Norris play - "May contain moderate language"
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2017 8:56:14 GMT
I wonder if they are actually expecting to sell 900 seats every night? I mean, they are both long-standing professionals, they must have a good insight into the realities of getting bums on seats. If it's flexible, presumably you can have as many seats as you like.
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Post by altamont on Apr 19, 2017 8:56:28 GMT
Young Marx -
1850, and Europe’s most feared terrorist is hiding in Dean Street, Soho. Broke, restless and horny, the thirty-two-year-old revolutionary is a frothing combination of intellectual brilliance, invective, satiric wit, and child-like emotional illiteracy.
Creditors, spies, rival revolutionary factions and prospective seducers of his beautiful wife all circle like vultures. His writing blocked, his marriage dying, his friend Engels in despair at his wasted genius, his only hope is a job on the railway. But there’s still no one in the capital who can show you a better night on the piss than Karl Heinrich Marx.
Rory Kinnear plays Marx and Oliver Chris, Engels. The production reunites the creative team behind Richard Bean’s smash hit One Man, Two Guvnors, with direction by Nicholas Hytner, design by Mark Thompson, music by Grant Olding, sound by Paul Arditti and lighting by Mark Henderson. The show will be broadcast on National Theatre Live in December.
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Post by altamont on Apr 19, 2017 8:57:41 GMT
JC -
Caesar returns in triumph to Rome and the people pour out of their homes to celebrate. Alarmed by the autocrat’s popularity, the educated élite conspire to bring him down. After his assassination, civil war erupts on the streets of the capital.
Nicholas Hytner’s production will be in promenade, thrusting its audience into the street party that greets Caesar’s return, the congress that witnesses his murder, the rally that assembles for his funeral and the chaos that explodes in its wake. Ben Whishaw and Michelle Fairley play Brutus and Cassius, leaders of the coup, David Calder plays Caesar and David Morrissey is Mark Antony, who brings Rome back under control after the conspirators’ defeat.
With seating wrapped around the action, there will also be 250 promenading tickets at £25 available in advance for each performance. The production designer is Bunny Christie, with costumes by Christina Cunningham, lighting by Bruno Poet and music by Nick Powell.
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Post by altamont on Apr 19, 2017 8:58:31 GMT
Nightfall -
On a farm outside Winchester, Ryan struggles to make a living off the land. His sister Lou has returned home after the death of their father to support Jenny, their formidable mother. Not so long ago, when a neighbour’s Labrador strayed onto the farm, their dad reached for his shotgun. Now, when Lou’s boyfriend Pete reappears, flush with money from his job at an oil refinery, Jenny fights to hold her children to the life she planned for them.
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Post by Sotongal on Apr 19, 2017 8:59:36 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2017 9:00:58 GMT
I love all three of those blokes for different reasons. Curses.
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Post by altamont on Apr 19, 2017 9:01:16 GMT
156 in the queue
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2017 9:02:14 GMT
370! What the hell?!?
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Post by Sotongal on Apr 19, 2017 9:05:54 GMT
Just noticed Julius Caesar is two hours long without an interval !
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2017 9:08:25 GMT
Oh excellent! I'm so tired of the idea perpetuated by the Globe and the RSC (and Robert Icke) that no Shakespeare play should come in under 3 hours, not even the short ones. Caesar can fit beautifully into two hours so I'm excited to see a production that agrees with that.  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2017 9:12:42 GMT
Anyone else being told that the queue is paused or shall I take it personally...?
Giving up shortly.
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Post by theatrelover123 on Apr 19, 2017 9:12:55 GMT
The queue is paused ;( Refresh?
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Post by zahidf on Apr 19, 2017 9:13:52 GMT
Mine is paused. And the 'priority phone number' doesn't exist.
Not a good start
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Post by altamont on Apr 19, 2017 9:15:27 GMT
At seat selection for JC - front row is £90! Think I'll go Promenade (esp. if only two hours)
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Post by Sotongal on Apr 19, 2017 9:16:21 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2017 9:16:21 GMT
Have been stuck at two mins for ages... Susoect refreshing would be a mistake!
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Post by harlow on Apr 19, 2017 9:16:33 GMT
I tried the phone number too with no avail -
I have now been redirected to the third queue I've been in, each time I arrive at the front of the queue I am either "paused" or redirected to another queue.
Well this is a fantastic experience....
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Post by schuttep on Apr 19, 2017 9:17:17 GMT
Got through, got thrown out, now in queue again. Teething troubles!!
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Post by zahidf on Apr 19, 2017 9:17:31 GMT
At seat selection for JC - front row is £90! Think I'll go Promenade (esp. if only two hours)
Where are the cheapest tickets?
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Post by theatrelover123 on Apr 19, 2017 9:18:16 GMT
I am now at 149 but the remaining time keeps fluctuating and bouncing like a rabbit on a waterbed.
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Post by altamont on Apr 19, 2017 9:21:57 GMT
Two promenades for JC and two front row for YM bought - each ticket costing £25
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Post by Someone in a tree on Apr 19, 2017 9:25:48 GMT
queued for an hour and then was put in a 10 minute queue and then i got booted out - all i want to do is have poke around on the website and see how high the stage is ...
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Post by theatrelover123 on Apr 19, 2017 9:26:37 GMT
How can this booking system be SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO rubbish so early on? ;(
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