Limehouse - Donmar Warehouse

I found the same, having been checking several times per day, for days on end, for possible returns. Given the issues I've had with some sites, I thought perhaps it was Chrome, or something else related to my laptop/OS/browser, etc, but evidently it's not just me. However, that said, I had previously seen tickets available on some dates and searching just now, I did find a single £40 seat for one date, which has happened before, but is more than I wish to pay.

Sounds good. Thanks for that, L

Was in C7 tonight and pleasantly surprised, it's no front row but better than expected really, you miss some bits when a cast member is faced the other way but you'd get that anywhere but central front. Latecomer has pipped me to the post by mentioning the do eat, I've just had to have cheese on toast, poor alternative to what's on offer on stage. Unfamiliarly with period and what went on but quite clear and for second preview in what is a very word heavy play with a fair bit of stuff to do on stage at time it was pretty sharp. As a zombie newly out of ofsted week at work and with not a lot of sleep had this went down quite well with me and would have been even better if i'd felt more alive I expect.

I really wanted to try Klaxon for this, because... Roger Allam. But is anyone able to say what exactly gets cooked onstage? (Sorry to be a wuss, but certain food smells make me queasy and in as small and enclosed a space as the Donmar, it could get pretty uncomfortable for me.) Spoiler tag it if necessary! ;-)

Food smells.....

You could wear a face mask.

We really enjoyed this. I was 17 and growing up, actively involved in Labour politics, in nearby Stepney at the time of the events and so remember them quite clearly. So many details rung true. I know that locally we were all slightly in awe of the fact that the very glamorous David and Debbie Owen had made their home in our frankly dingy neck of the woods (this was long before gentrification) and that their children went to the local nursery. And Roger Allam's Roy Jenkins is uncanny. We were all also very aware that another early gentrifier Delia Smith was represented by Debbie Owen for her cookbooks.

I was apprehensive about the play since I had real reservations about Steve Waters' earlier piece 'Temple'. I suspect that part of this was due to the fact that with Temple I was expecting greater depth than could be delivered in a 2 hour play. Limehouse isn't deep - though it certainly prompts thought - but it is good fun and well structured with pointers to Labour's current predicament (I speak as someone still hanging on in after over 35 years as a Labour Party member).

The only seats we could get were front row stalls and I was quite apprehensive about sitting so close to the action. But there is a bit of a physical barrier which meant that it didn't feel intimidating in the way I had feared. Would certainly recommend this to others interested in politics.

I was 17 too and just about to start university!

Just listened to an interview on Radio 4 where it was said that the three surviving members of the Gang of Four have been invited to the press night and are believed to be attending.

It must surely work both ways? I know people in the public eye must be used to biting lips, biding their time, etc, but imagine if you were the real person, watching a fictional portrayal of a key period from your past, and you disliked or disagreed with the playwright's interpretation? However strongly you felt, you would have to sit there silently and would be expected to applaud at the end. And this play has no interval so even if you were really outraged, you couldn't leave unless you walked out in mid-performance.

Still some scattered tix available for those looking! Just picked myself up a £10 seat in the Circle. I'll be seeing it the same day that I see Hamlet at the Almeida. Should be an interesting day...

Or indeed 150th in the queue. Would definitely do it again