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Post by loureviews on Sept 9, 2017 8:10:46 GMT
Well, I wouldn't partake in the Food thing but having already booked to see the show I'm intrigued as to how they integrate the restaurant with the 'production going on around them'. Sounds bizarre.
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Post by wickedgrin on Sept 9, 2017 8:29:10 GMT
Did you check out the menu- kale? I have been offered eating places for this as a supporter, no ballot. I'm just horrified frankly unless I have got it completely wrong. What comes to mind is the kind of trickery we witnessed in the play about mobile phones at the Donmar when a member of the audience, ho de ho, was exposed in such an uncomfortable way. Not to mention what you have already mentioned, the mishaps of eating! I look forward to hearing about this show. The Donmar play was called Privacy (I think). Not the best of plays but it certainly gave food for thought (see what I did there!) Obviously when you make a booking these days with a credit card - they know your name and where you are sat in the auditorium and as most people have their lives online now, a quick pre-show search clearly flagged up several potential victims on Facebook etc. of drunken hen parties etc. and a quick check of Google Earth and your street and house are up on the screen for all to see. The audience and the person in question seemed horrified that 200 people in the audience saw her house and her antics on her hen night, but of course this information is readily available to the world should it be searched for...... |
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Post by Sooze on Sept 10, 2017 20:01:21 GMT
I may be wrong but I thought the 'member of the public' in Privacy was a plant?
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Post by Latecomer on Sept 10, 2017 21:08:45 GMT
I may be wrong but I thought the 'member of the public' in Privacy was a plant? Yes, I thought this too! I am pretty sure it was a plant!  |
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Post by alicechallice on Sept 10, 2017 22:09:35 GMT
I may be wrong but I thought the 'member of the public' in Privacy was a plant? Yes, I thought this too! I am pretty sure it was a plant! There was something else weird they did to an actual audience, I think it involved picking an envelope but I can't remember specifically. The night I went, the "victim" was @n1david. Perhaps he could jog our memories... |
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Post by sf on Sept 10, 2017 22:39:28 GMT
The Foodwork idea looks weirdly horrifying. Or rather, it might very well be fascinating to watch - I'll find out in November - but I can't imagine it would be something I'd enjoy doing.
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Post by lynette on Sept 10, 2017 23:11:21 GMT
Yes indeed the Privacy person was a plant. That's what I mean. Are they gonna do something similar with audience ? Funny thing about the plant was that the person I was with had a long conversation with her in the interval before the reveal giving much well considered advice only to be embarrassed beyond when the reveal happened. I think manipulating people to that extent isn't on. That is why I don't like the eating idea.
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Post by n1david on Sept 10, 2017 23:26:55 GMT
Yes, I thought this too! I am pretty sure it was a plant! There was something else weird they did to an actual audience, I think it involved picking an envelope but I can't remember specifically. The night I went, the "victim" was @n1david. Perhaps he could jog our memories... I’m amazed you remember that! I was invited ahead of the performance to do some stuff on Facebook in order that they could use my profile in the show. My face and some things related to me appeared in the montage of images during the show but not identified to me so I saw my house and a couple of Facebook images but not connected to me and so briefly that no one else would connect them to me. There was a bit in the show where they choose one of (I think) four or six people to go into more detail and my image was there but the person they picked was, indeed a plant and their responses were scripted. So it was a bit like One Man Two Guvnors where they use real people in a fairly trivial way early in the show in order to make the audience believe that all the participants are real. But none of my personal info was in any identifiable way used in the show. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2017 17:59:37 GMT
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Post by showgirl on Sept 19, 2017 18:35:25 GMT
Seem to be tix for quite a few dates now but oh help, the website is also saying c 2 hours, no interval! Cursing yet another interval-free production anywhere but that it should be at the NT again is really galling. At this rate perhaps they should instead announce which productions will have the benefit of an interval.
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Post by Jon on Sept 19, 2017 18:55:17 GMT
Seem to be tix for quite a few dates now but oh help, the website is also saying c 2 hours, no interval! Cursing yet another interval-free production anywhere but that it should be at the NT again is really galling. At this rate perhaps they should instead announce which productions will have the benefit of an interval. Two hours isn't that long considering I've said through longer films and epic plays like Angels in America. Maybe you should write to Rufus Norris and complain! |
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Post by pauln on Sept 19, 2017 20:21:35 GMT
Seem to be tix for quite a few dates now but oh help, the website is also saying c 2 hours, no interval! Cursing yet another interval-free production anywhere but that it should be at the NT again is really galling. At this rate perhaps they should instead announce which productions will have the benefit of an interval. You can't focus on a story for two hours without having to take a bathroom break? That doesn't seem very plausible. Besides that, it totally is the directors choice and if he doesn't feel like there's a place for one, he shouldn't be forced to interrupt the play for people who can't concentrate for longer than an hour. |
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Post by Jan on Sept 19, 2017 20:59:14 GMT
Seem to be tix for quite a few dates now but oh help, the website is also saying c 2 hours, no interval! Cursing yet another interval-free production anywhere but that it should be at the NT again is really galling. At this rate perhaps they should instead announce which productions will have the benefit of an interval. Can't see the problem. The original film of Network was 2hrs without an interval (though it seemed much much longer). |
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Post by crowblack on Sept 19, 2017 21:00:45 GMT
You can't focus on a story for two hours without having to take a bathroom break? I can, but I'm going to be seeing this from an uncomfy cheap seat so the chance to stand and stretch after an hour so so would be welcome! |
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Post by Jan on Sept 19, 2017 21:13:45 GMT
You can't focus on a story for two hours without having to take a bathroom break? I can, but I'm going to be seeing this from an uncomfy cheap seat so the chance to stand and stretch after an hour so so would be welcome! Might be even more uncomfortable for the on-stage diners. Actually 2hrs is right on the limit of what I find acceptable for no interval - just enough for Macbeth or Tempest - but I seem to recall one part of Nichols Nickelby ran over two hours each side of the interval - Peak Nunn. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2017 22:11:27 GMT
With this and follies with no interval they are losing out on lots of money from no interval drinks and other purchases.I am still very excited to be seeing the first preview
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Post by crowblack on Sept 19, 2017 22:15:36 GMT
And fewer drinks beforehand, too! |
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Post by firefingers on Sept 19, 2017 22:15:37 GMT
Thanks showgirl for the tip, thought I'd missed the boat, but bagged a ticket in the dress for press night. Only have Mondays off until 2018 so very lucky there. Got a good feeling about this, and I bloody love a show without an interval. Made it through Das Rheingold which is 2hrs 40mins without an interval.
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Post by callum on Sept 19, 2017 23:05:24 GMT
Thanks for the heads up - though is it worth it to take those last few rows of the circle seats or wait in the hope that some cheap seats in the first four rows come up instead?
I remember there was a lot of availability across the whole house for Angels usually on the day of performance.
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Post by nash16 on Sept 19, 2017 23:19:38 GMT
Name the last Ivo van Hove play to have a (regular) interval. Go!
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Post by Jon on Sept 19, 2017 23:39:31 GMT
Name the last Ivo van Hove play to have a (regular) interval. Go! |
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Post by showgirl on Sept 20, 2017 4:27:23 GMT
A little off-topic but for the umpteenth time, chaps, it isn't the issue of "bathroom breaks" (though please bear in mind that for some people it may be) but in my case, a different sort of physical discomfort due to a medical condition. But as others have pointed out, the longer the uninterrupted running time, the harder it is to remain focused. All I'm asking is that directors play (!) fair and announce as early as possible any plans regarding intervals and that theatres publish an approximate running time asap and allow people to amend/cancel their bookings, without a penalty, if necessary.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2017 5:02:48 GMT
Thanks for the heads up - though is it worth it to take those last few rows of the circle seats or wait in the hope that some cheap seats in the first four rows come up instead? I remember there was a lot of availability across the whole house for Angels usually on the day of performance. You can return tickets for a credit note (£2 charge for this) up to 24 hours before the performance so you could book what you can now then change later? |
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Post by lonlad on Sept 20, 2017 6:57:17 GMT
What is the big fuss about no interval for a two-hour show??? Does no one ever go to the cinema? And who cares if the theatre loses out on bar sales - art doesn't exist to service the interval concessions ....
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2017 13:57:07 GMT
You can't focus on a story for two hours without having to take a bathroom break? Isn't that what the empty wine bottle is for in an interval-free show, no? |
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