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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2017 19:26:20 GMT
I have never left at the interval. I'm made of hardy stock. Lightweights. You're just afraid you'll miss some nudity if you leave
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Post by showgirl on Jun 19, 2017 19:32:00 GMT
I have never left at the interval. I'm made of hardy stock. Lightweights. Or could you perhaps simply be undiscriminating, Ryan?! The best people leave at the interval on occasion, but it's a finely-judged thing. I'm currently achieving my 5% quota...
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Post by infofreako on Jun 19, 2017 20:50:07 GMT
I have never left at the interval. I'm made of hardy stock. Lightweights. Or could you perhaps simply be undiscriminating, Ryan?! The best people leave at the interval on occasion, but it's a finely-judged thing. I'm currently achieving my 5% quota... Leaving at the interval has costs, I'm normally booked on to a set coach and if I leave the theatre early I will more than likely end up in a pub. Far better to stay where I am and not spend
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Post by Dawnstar on Jun 19, 2017 20:56:47 GMT
I have a funny story about a school Drama trip to the theatre. I can't remember which theatre it was, but it was in Cambridge and it was a production of Antigone which we were studying. We were all sat in the back block of the stalls, about 20 of us including teachers, as it was A Level so we didn't have the people who didn't care about theatre there, we are a passionate bunch. Little did we know, not only did this performance go on for aboit three hours, the whole thing was in Latin or Greek or wherever that play is set. The Arts Theatre. It's my local. They do occasionally do plays in the original Greek/Latin, though I have never braved going to any! Your Antigone would have presumably been in Greek.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2017 21:04:03 GMT
I have a funny story about a school Drama trip to the theatre. I can't remember which theatre it was, but it was in Cambridge and it was a production of Antigone which we were studying. We were all sat in the back block of the stalls, about 20 of us including teachers, as it was A Level so we didn't have the people who didn't care about theatre there, we are a passionate bunch. Little did we know, not only did this performance go on for aboit three hours, the whole thing was in Latin or Greek or wherever that play is set. The Arts Theatre. It's my local. They do occasionally do plays in the original Greek/Latin, though I have never braved going to any! Your Antigone would have presumably been in Greek. Oh wow, thats the one! Ijust googled it and I remember the outside of it! I mean, don't get me wrong, it was probably a fantastic performance! I would never want to put anyone off going, but for me it was alot of focusing and struggle that, in school, you give up five minutes in! If I went back now I'd proabbly appreciate it more.
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Post by Dawnstar on Jun 19, 2017 21:43:01 GMT
Oh wow, thats the one! Ijust googled it and I remember the outside of it! I mean, don't get me wrong, it was probably a fantastic performance! I would never want to put anyone off going, but for me it was alot of focusing and struggle that, in school, you give up five minutes in! If I went back now I'd proabbly appreciate it more. I imagine it must take someone who is either very keen on classical drama or is pretty fluent in Ancient Greek, or both, to appreciate a 3 hour play in Greek! I took GCSE Latin but I still wouldn't go & see a play in Latin.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2017 22:05:46 GMT
I have never left at the interval. I'm made of hardy stock. Lightweights. You're just afraid you'll miss some nudity if you leave There's that too.
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Post by theatrelover123 on Jun 19, 2017 22:08:12 GMT
The Play That Goes Wrong. The Treatnent. The Braille Legacy. About 5 at the Donmar. Moby Dick at the Union. King Lear at The Old Vic. We Will Rock You. The list goes on
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2017 22:13:35 GMT
I have never left at the interval. I'm made of hardy stock. Lightweights. Or could you perhaps simply be undiscriminating, Ryan?! The best people leave at the interval on occasion, but it's a finely-judged thing. I'm currently achieving my 5% quota... Ummmm. No. That's not it. If I've seen rubbish and I'm going to complain about it, I jolly well want to see what I'm complaining about. Perhaps if I had a quota to achieve I might do so but I certainly can't be faffed with that.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2017 23:08:47 GMT
Oh please do tell who the Elphaba was! Even if it is a PM I think that would be wise! When I left Wicked early, It was Louise Dearman as Elphie.
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Post by viserys on Jun 20, 2017 5:12:29 GMT
Oh wow, thats the one! Ijust googled it and I remember the outside of it! I mean, don't get me wrong, it was probably a fantastic performance! I would never want to put anyone off going, but for me it was alot of focusing and struggle that, in school, you give up five minutes in! If I went back now I'd proabbly appreciate it more. I imagine it must take someone who is either very keen on classical drama or is pretty fluent in Ancient Greek, or both, to appreciate a 3 hour play in Greek! I took GCSE Latin but I still wouldn't go & see a play in Latin. Or be a daft tourist. I had once booked for a play at the famous ancient amphitheatre in Epidauros in Greece as I thought it would be cool to see something in that setting. Of course I realized too late that as the play was done by a theatre from Athens on tour, it would be in Greek. But I found the script in English online, printed it and had it on my knees throughout the performance and it being an open air theatre, there was enough daylight to read along with what they were saying on stage. Certainly one of my weirder theatre experiences.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2017 7:34:19 GMT
I'll see a play in any language. This is a thing I have learned about myself since the Globe decided to present the complete works in a whole array of languages. I mean, I would like to keep it to plays I already know so I have a basic knowledge to compensate for the fact I'm going to have to focus on the way they're saying things rather than what they're saying, but I'd be well up for a play in Ancient Greek or Latin.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2017 7:42:26 GMT
Indeed, I've seen a few plays in French with my very basic school French and for work I saw a fair few Welsh language plays for which my grasp is probably even worse. Thing I learned: if it's a good play it'll still be interesting, and a bad play is a bad play in any language.
Related note, I went to see Rent in Welsh. So firstly it's a musical- most people can appreciate musical (and indeed opera) not in a native tongue. A wife of a friend was there and said in a condescending tone "Do you even speak Welsh?" I answered (in Welsh) "I speak some/I can understand a bit" she looked, actually snorted and said "Well good luck with THIS then" I paused, smiled and said "Well I wrote a PhD on this musical so I think I have a grasp of the plot" and walked off.
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Post by viserys on Jun 20, 2017 7:50:54 GMT
I did see two musicals in Russian last year when I went to Moscow and understood exactly one word - Empress Catherine the Great shouting "Njet!" across the stage at one point. I also once saw a musical in Czech in Prague, but that was "The Count of Monte Cristo", so at least I was familiar with the story. "Jesus Christ Superstar" in Budapest was sung in Hungarian but came with English surtitles (and of course I basically knew all the lyrics by heart anyway).
I dunno, while I prefer understanding what's said on stage, I just enjoy the experience of theatre-going in different countries, see what the local audiences are like and so on. It's also quite funny trying to figure out where you need to be when you can't read the words on your ticket such as "stalls left" or "dress circle right".
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Post by moelhywel on Jun 20, 2017 8:05:10 GMT
Going slightly off topic the worst experience of finding my seat in a foreign theatre was in Budapest. The stalls in the Opera house there has a central block and two side blocks. The numbering goes from 1 on EACH gangway seat, towards the middle in the centre block and towards the sides in the side blocks, so there are four number ones, four number twos, etc. Needless to say, with seats 6 and 7 we sat in the very centre of the stalls only to find that we were actually right at the side! It's the most weirdly numbered seating plan I've ever encountered. After that we really enjoyed the performance of Swan Lake, which being a ballet you can watch anywhere in the world without having to worry about the language.
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Post by profquatermass on Jun 20, 2017 10:21:10 GMT
I've seen lots of plays in Greek (did Classics at school) both comedy and tragedy. It helps if you know the plot already but it shouldn't be dull if the production is good. Like the foreign Shakespeares at the Globe, some of which were among the best theatrical experiences I've had (the Eastern European Henry VIs being a particular highlight along with the BSL Love's Labours Lost ) .
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2017 10:30:55 GMT
Making good choices is the key. Before you even get to the theatre make the decision. Occasionally I've just exchanged tickets where possible or even taken the loss (most recently seeing Life of Galileo as opposed to Whisper House). That way you can add in another performance of something that appeals to you more rather than feeling as though you've wasted a slot.
So I've never had to leave a theatre on the grounds of taste or quality. A couple of times when I've been feeling unwell, though.
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Post by mosiemo on Jun 20, 2017 10:31:05 GMT
The Duck House - mainly cos we'd had a few cocktails before hand and fell asleep after about 15 minutes. Oh, and a play with Keira Knightley and Damian Lewis in rhyming couplets - can't remember for the life of me what it was called - but I do remember the Spanish lady in the seat next to me who answered her phone and proceeded to have a conversation, despite me and everyone round her trying to get her to shut up!
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Post by viserys on Jun 20, 2017 10:42:48 GMT
Oh, and a play with Keira Knightley and Damian Lewis in rhyming couplets - can't remember for the life of me what it was called That would have been Moliere's Misanthrope
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2017 10:47:23 GMT
Oh I have done the 'it's worth losing the money to save my sanity' a couple of times (usually TBH due to not being well or life making travel to London difficult) but once or twice I have simply done the 'Dear Lord I just can't be dealing with that today' and not gone though.
I did do a cheeky thing this weekend of waiting until so late in the day to book tickets that I *knew* a thing would be sold out in order to legitimately tell people "oh no I'd LOVE to have gone but look it's all sold out"
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Post by stefy69 on Jun 20, 2017 11:05:58 GMT
Oh I have done the 'it's worth losing the money to save my sanity' a couple of times (usually TBH due to not being well or life making travel to London difficult) but once or twice I have simply done the 'Dear Lord I just can't be dealing with that today' and not gone though. I did do a cheeky thing this weekend of waiting until so late in the day to book tickets that I *knew* a thing would be sold out in order to legitimately tell people "oh no I'd LOVE to have gone but look it's all sold out" Naughty naughty emi !
Seriously though I've done that too * face reddens * and felt guilty for er, well a few microseconds...
I blame the " younger generation " * nudge nudge wink wink *
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2017 11:18:14 GMT
Oh I have done the 'it's worth losing the money to save my sanity' a couple of times (usually TBH due to not being well or life making travel to London difficult) but once or twice I have simply done the 'Dear Lord I just can't be dealing with that today' and not gone though. I did do a cheeky thing this weekend of waiting until so late in the day to book tickets that I *knew* a thing would be sold out in order to legitimately tell people "oh no I'd LOVE to have gone but look it's all sold out" Naughty naughty emi !
Seriously though I've done that too * face reddens * and felt guilty for er, well a few microseconds...
I blame the " younger generation " * nudge nudge wink wink *
I felt less guilty when I was happily lying on my sofa drinking wine
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Post by stefy69 on Jun 20, 2017 11:24:05 GMT
Naughty naughty emi !
Seriously though I've done that too * face reddens * and felt guilty for er, well a few microseconds...
I blame the " younger generation " * nudge nudge wink wink *
I felt less guilty when I was happily lying on my sofa drinking wine That's my girl....
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Post by freckles on Jun 20, 2017 11:34:28 GMT
Only ever left at the interval twice, I try to be supportive.
Once was Too Close To The Sun, which I might have stuck out on my own, out of morbid curiosity, but my guests really weren't enjoying it. We had a great thread on this on the previous forum. It was worth going just to participate in that. The other was The 8th Fold, dreary and dull all round.
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Post by CG on the loose on Jun 20, 2017 12:24:36 GMT
I hung in there for Too Close To The Sun... honouring my side of the papering bargain, but also out of the aforesaid morbid curiousity! Stalls were about half full in the first half and less than a quarter in the second - extraordinary show.
Have left a couple of things at the interval - Mojo, which I was enjoying but for an excruciating headache - and something, I think at the Union, that I've successfully blanked from my mind.
Oh and The Life of the Party at the Menier because they started so late I had no hope of getting home if I stayed til the end.
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