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Post by martin1965 on Oct 7, 2017 20:09:14 GMT
Here now so will see, so far only cheap end of rows occupied. People behind have sweets, torn between glaring early in case noisy or asking for one now these seats are either getting smaller or I'm getting bigger. Tell them to bum off! |
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Post by peggs on Oct 7, 2017 21:09:48 GMT
Should have scowled they chattered through every scene change. But was quite eventful, man tried to get out mid scene past the slowest I must protect my drink at all cost woman and promptly collapsed, queue audience trying to be helpful for several mins before any ushers could be found.
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Post by peggs on Oct 7, 2017 21:12:35 GMT
Spent first hour thinking this is an odd west end play and yes surely a smaller more intimate space would work and suspecting I was possibly missing something. Then in last ten mins found self oddly charmed. Only it wasn't last ten mins as turns out I can't add up and for some reason had made 80 mins an hour and ten when it clearly isn't so it had another ten mins to ferment my I rather like this even if not quite sure why or if I have missed some great point.
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Post by Marwood on Oct 8, 2017 0:35:08 GMT
I'll be generous and say I liked this, but as other people have said, the whole thing is very slight, and you won't really be missing much if you don't see this.
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Oct 8, 2017 18:58:27 GMT
I liked this. Nice to have Anne-Marie Duff back
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Post by dani on Oct 9, 2017 8:12:09 GMT
I liked this. Nice to have Anne-Marie Duff back Back from the clutches of Common, do you mean?!! |
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Post by jek on Oct 9, 2017 10:57:26 GMT
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Post by peggs on Oct 9, 2017 17:36:39 GMT
Thanks jek for the link.
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Oct 9, 2017 17:37:53 GMT
I liked this. Nice to have Anne-Marie Duff back Back from the clutches of Common, do you mean?!! He he, that's the one |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2017 21:18:07 GMT
Just back from this one. I'm sure the press will love it, but I was struck by the bizarre choice to have it open Marianne Elliot's season. I just didn't think it was a particularly good play. The 90 minutes zoom along nicely enough, but I wasn't moved or excited by it. Sterling performance by Anne-Marie Duff and a confident, if stilted performance by Cranham who I adored in The Father last year.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2017 13:13:50 GMT
Seems like a batch of two and three star reviews.
Having only read it (and struggled to get halfway through before abandoning) those reviews don't entirely surprise me. There was always that chance of the reviews being overly kind on the basis of it being a new commercial venture from a team of creatives who've done critically lauded work in the subsidised theatre.
Not sure it is best suited for the West End - I found it quite pretentious, and it feels more like a studio piece in a subsidised space - but I think they thought it might be a cheap show to get up, and were hoping that the Stephens/Elliott/Cranham/Duff grouping might see it across the line. Be interested to see how it ends up selling off the back of the reviews though.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Oct 10, 2017 13:43:49 GMT
It's almost embarrassing how hard all involved are working to shill tickets. I'm surprised we haven't see Simon Stephens show up on Saturday Kitchen yet, or playing second fiddle to animals who do tricks on the One Show.
It's just the wrong venue. If this was on at the Court it would have sold out.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2017 14:25:50 GMT
A delightful young man from the box office called me earlier to say that the balcony is closed today so they're upgrading me by moving me into a much nicer seat.
He asked me where I'd like to sit so I suggested the bar. That wasn't an option apparently so I'll have to sit with the great unwashed unfortunately.
*shudder*
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Oct 10, 2017 18:43:46 GMT
A delightful young man from the box office called me earlier to say that the balcony is closed today so they're upgrading me by moving me into a much nicer seat. He asked me where I'd like to sit so I suggested the bar. That wasn't an option apparently so I'll have to sit with the great unwashed unfortunately. *shudder* Cheek of this one, upgraded from the balcony and moaning he'll have to sit with the hoi polloi. I paid top dollar for my premium seat
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2017 9:06:16 GMT
Well. It's only about an hour and a half but it certainly feels longer. It's so dull they could put it on the NHS for insomnia sufferers. Whoever made the decision to put it on in this theatre needs to consider whether working in London's glitzy West End is the career for them. I spent most of the show primed in my seat waiting to attack any random pile of tumbleweed that might have zipped by.
Anne-Marie Duff, God love her is a tremendous actress and she has an indefinable charisma but she's woefully miscast here for my money and never once convinces as an American. She doesn't strike me as the kind of woman who wears such dreadfully mismatched undies either but the biggest problem is that her character is just so unbelievably irritating. To the point where you want her to fall through one of the trap doors on the stage at various intervals. Kenny Cranham is also very good but it's hard when the material is this boring. Plus he wears his socks to bed. And not even nice toasty warm bedsocks either. His normal ones.
On the plus side, at the curtain call AMD and KC seem to get on like a house on fire and she does seem really rather lovely.
It's appallingly directed though. There are a couple of scenes where if you're in the upper areas of the theatre, you'll have various bits of headless acting going on. And for those people who have a fear of the walls closing in on you, perhaps avoid this show. The person operating the walls gets a bit heavy handed towards the end of the play but there you go. Perhaps he fell asleep on the button. BUT the best bit of the whole play is that there are some lovely interpretive dance moments between scenes which are a comical delight.
Finally, someone needs to tell Anne-Marie to take a look at Skyscanner. I went to New York recently and my flight was nowhere near £15,000. She needs to speak to 'Watchdog' about her travel agent.
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Post by peggs on Oct 11, 2017 10:55:19 GMT
I liked the mis matched underwear as am always suspicious every time someone strips off on tv and it matches, they either pre plan a lot or only wear matching sets and frankly they're making me feel poorly dressed. Yes did wonder if I'd originally mis heard, how could it be that expensive?!
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Post by kathryn on Oct 11, 2017 13:17:43 GMT
Isn't there a suggestion that she is maybe taking him for a ride and the very inflated flight price is part of that?
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Post by stefy69 on Oct 11, 2017 13:23:44 GMT
Isn't there a suggestion that she is maybe taking him for a ride and the very inflated flight price is part of that? That's an excellent point ! |
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Post by peggs on Oct 11, 2017 18:48:27 GMT
Isn't there a suggestion that she is maybe taking him for a ride and the very inflated flight price is part of that? That's an excellent point ! True but I thought there was another mention of the amount once they've travelled and he's knows the deal? |
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Post by joem on Oct 11, 2017 20:34:06 GMT
Are they selling day tickets for this? Not minded to pay £100 for this after all the negative posts.
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Post by vdcni on Oct 12, 2017 7:24:20 GMT
I presumed it wasn't just for the flights but potential expenses while she was there - hotels, travel, meals etc - but it did feel a bit plucked out of the air.
I know he's a bit sheltered but I can't imagine him being unaware that flights to New York do not cost anywhere near that much.
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Post by popcultureboy on Oct 12, 2017 8:21:07 GMT
Given that the character Duff is playing is supposed to have an indefinable charisma ("do you find me exhausting, yet captivating?"), I don't think I would say she's miscast here.
Obviously the play isn't for everyone, but I found it very far from dull when I saw it in NYC. Yet to see this production, but it sounds like it's got a lot more going on theatrically than the MTC "two tables on a bare stage" approach, which may not always be to its benefit. Fully intend on seeing it before the end of its run, which I hope isn't a premature one.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2017 10:02:14 GMT
Are they selling day tickets for this? Not minded to pay £100 for this after all the negative posts. Yes, Row A for £19.50. Back few rows of the stalls are also £19.50 until the end of October on the Delfont Macintosh site. Given how it's selling I would expect that price to extend into November too. |
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Post by joem on Oct 12, 2017 16:13:01 GMT
Ok. I got into row C for £19.50. At that price it was value for money!
Starts off promisingly, the first scene pulls you in - the zaniness of the Duff character and the relatively deadpan Cranham, but then it does lose its way. Frankly the whole Heisenberg thing is a huge millstone round this play's proverbial neck. It makes it sound clever but I fear it puts some people off from attending thinking the science wil be over-complicated. In fact there is little science and I fail to understand why the playwright chose to give it the name he did. Fine, the principle may underpin his thinking behind writing the play but the play isn;t about uncertainty, it is about the consequences of uncertainly.
Duff is fine, at first thought Cranham was miscast but the script does seem to call for a much older actor than the female part.
Stalls three quarters full, quite appreciative. Not sure if Upper Circle was open.
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Post by peggs on Oct 13, 2017 21:30:46 GMT
Yes I admit I'd have liked and expected a bit more science but there's nothing more than a brief mention here so there's no fear of being baffled.
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