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Post by Someone in a tree on Apr 19, 2017 9:36:41 GMT
How can this booking system be SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO rubbish so early on? ;( Ahh it's like the golden days of NT all over again |
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Post by bellboard27 on Apr 19, 2017 9:39:38 GMT
Booking all went nice and easily. Short wait for about 10 mins, then in and easy to navigate. Loads of seats available.
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Post by theatrelover123 on Apr 19, 2017 9:44:08 GMT
Loads of seats available. Couldn't see that the previews were any cheaper for any of the shows though
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Post by theatrelover123 on Apr 19, 2017 9:48:34 GMT
OK sorry. I couldnt see that they were NOTICEABLY cheaper (maybe £5 cheaper per ticket for the higher priced tickets). BARGAIN!  |
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Post by rumbledoll on Apr 19, 2017 10:04:31 GMT
Was rather painless for me this morning. 5 mins in the Q, then stuck a couple of times, but back button works fine, nothing falls out from the basket (unlike some other booking systems). Prices are adequate (what not to love with £25 front row?) and i love how flexible the auditorium looks (judging by the layouts of the first two productions). Good luck to everyone struggling to book! You'll get through!  |
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Post by Phantom of London on Apr 19, 2017 11:04:09 GMT
The new inaugural seasons announcement are Hytner's cohorts n the National, he has just imported the people he worked with at the National to the Bridge, however some of the artistic programme is appealing.
I bought the £15 membership anticipating a big stage was going to open the new theatre, I was wrong and wasted £15.
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Post by zahidf on Apr 19, 2017 11:09:55 GMT
I got the half price membership offer. May be worth it based on what the Monday events are, but will wait an see.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2017 11:28:08 GMT
The new inaugural seasons announcement are Hytner's cohorts n the National, he has just imported the people he worked with at the National to the Bridge, Of the four writers of the plays now booking, two didn't work with Hytner at the National (Clive Coleman and Barney Norris) and two did (Richard Bean and William Shakespeare). |
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Post by Phantom of London on Apr 19, 2017 11:46:30 GMT
I wasn't just talking about the writers.
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Post by Phantom of London on Apr 19, 2017 11:52:53 GMT
Also the venue is a large playhouse to start off with and certainly the first 2 productions are playing for a lengthy time (over 2 months), so can only summarise that this venue isn't interested in transferring their productions into the West End.
Would've been good to see them do a musical and really test the accoustics, although Hytner hasn't really got any track record of doing musical, Mias Saigon and Carousel aside.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2017 11:54:47 GMT
I'm pretty sure the point of this theatre is to be a commercial theatre presenting new plays. I don't know that they're in a hurry to look at musicals, and if I understand their manifesto correctly, I don't know that they should be.
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Post by theatremadness on Apr 19, 2017 12:38:26 GMT
NT Live are already on board! Dates to be confirmed.
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Post by Jon on Apr 19, 2017 12:54:36 GMT
Interesting that they're open to hosting transfers from the subsidised theatre sector alongside their own productions.
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Post by peggs on Apr 19, 2017 12:55:44 GMT
For JC does promenade tickets mean you're literally standing and walking about a bit do we think? I can't think what else it would mean but thought I'd get a bit of consensus.
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Post by martin1965 on Apr 19, 2017 13:00:47 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" Exactly what i thought! Best of british filling that size auditorium with that programming! |
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Post by peggs on Apr 19, 2017 13:14:26 GMT
For JC does promenade tickets mean you're literally standing and walking about a bit do we think? I can't think what else it would mean but thought I'd get a bit of consensus. Ignore me, I've just found the JC thread under plays. Now can I really stand up for 2 hours in an unknown space and mingle with actors?! |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2017 13:35:09 GMT
Interesting that they're open to hosting transfers from the subsidised theatre sector alongside their own productions. It's not completely clear, but I think they've said they aspire to build up to six new theatres of various dimensions in different locations around London, and transfers from the subsidised sector would feature within that portfolio. The Bridge seems to be intended for their own productions. |
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Post by moelhywel on Apr 19, 2017 15:09:41 GMT
Just seen that NT Live will be showing Julius Caesar as well as Young Marx in the cinemas. How is this likely to impact on ticket sales? I originally thought of going to both of these but may well reconsider now and just go to the cinema instead given the distance I have to travel and the cost of the train fares.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Apr 19, 2017 15:14:35 GMT
Nightfall is going to be a wonderful production, and good on them for programming new writing from a mix of established and less established playwrights alongside classics.
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Post by Someone in a tree on Apr 20, 2017 7:04:56 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2017 8:54:57 GMT
I don't get this idea people have that the NT is lacking for classics. What's Hedda? What's Twelfth Night? What's Chekhov? They can't do all classics all the time, as they also have a responsibility to develop new writing and are one of the theatres that can afford to give a large amount of space and time to new writing, but they're not completely neglecting the classics, though to hear some people talk you'd think they were.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2017 10:04:32 GMT
I don't get this idea people have that the NT is lacking for classics. It's not really too hard to comprehend Michael Billington's original point: "Between the new production of Twelfth Night this February and Rufus Norris’s projected Macbeth in the spring of 2018, the only work that acknowledges the past (aside from short runs of Shakespeare for younger audiences in the Dorfman) is a revival of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America (1991-2) and Stephen Sondheim’s Follies (1971). This strikes me as a staggering dereliction of the National’s duty." |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2017 10:15:31 GMT
I don't have issues comprehending, I just have issues with his use of the phrase "staggering dereliction of ... duty". Melodramatic much, Mikey?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2017 10:26:45 GMT
I don't have issues comprehending, Well, you did just an hour ago when you told us that you "don't get this idea." I just have issues with his use of the phrase "staggering dereliction of ... duty". Melodramatic much, Mikey? Well, there are just three new NT productions of reimagined classics in the year ahead, out of over twenty in total. And of those three, one is a 1990s American play and one is a 1970s American musical. That's a pathetically low proportion when the NT used to cite reimagined classics as part of its core work. |
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Post by zahidf on Apr 20, 2017 10:29:28 GMT
I don't have issues comprehending, Well, you did just an hour ago when you told us that you "don't get this idea." I just have issues with his use of the phrase "staggering dereliction of ... duty". Melodramatic much, Mikey? Well, there are just three new NT productions of reimagined classics in the year ahead, out of over twenty in total. And of those three, one is a 1990s American play and one is a 1970s American musical. That's a pathetically low proportion when the NT used to cite reimagined classics as part of its core work.
That is over a relatively short period of time though. What about in the 2 years before 12th Night?
We had Amadeus, waste, threepenny opera, Chekov trilogy, Hedda...
Its slanted more towards new work in the next season, but to say 'dereliction of duty' is somewhat of an exaggeration in my view...
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