St Nicholas - Donmar Dryden Street and Dublin

No - originally done in 1997 at the Bush Theatre with Brian Cox

www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/dont-make-a-drama-out-of-a-critic-1280430.html

I was wondering if I’d seen it but I don’t recall 😂

Wait, they've automatically entered everyone who's already on one email list or other? That seems... an odd decision. I can just imagine a bunch of people winning the chance to buy who wouldn't have chosen to enter the ballot but feel like they may as well book now, and another bunch of people wailing because they joined the mailing lists JUST because they desperately wanted to see this (for... some reason...) and lost out to the people who simply weren't that fussed. Don't worry if you're the latter group though, I wouldn't have chosen to enter the ballot off my own back, and I don't plan to book if it turns out I am one of the lucky winners. (I've seen it before and I'm super busy during this run.)

Seems a lot of effort to go to - after all, the people who unsubscribed to those emails were highly unlikely to be actually reading them! 
And they can't sell the data on to anyone else, I believe.

Indeed, and besides, I hesitate to pay £25 for a "proper" play, ie rather than a one-person performance, and of a reasonable length for the outlay and travel, so I won't be booking this even if I win.

Assuming it's in the same space as Michelle Terry and Rosalie Craig's thing on motherhood, it's the same basic shape and size as the Donmar, but the areas where seats would be are clear, so it's basically a black box space, and I wouldn't be surprised if they kept this production to "stalls" level only.

He would've been back when Downton was new, Mr Bates was everyone's unlikely heartthrob for the first season, but then he just became a garbage character, getting worse and worse as the whole thing progressed. I don't know on what grounds they're implying this is some exclusive theatrical event, 'cos I don't know that Conor McPherson is an automatic hot-seller either.

Hubby's been successful in the ballot. For £25, I'll give it a go.

E-mail only. All tix are £25, seating unreserved and limited to 2 per booker. There's a link in the email which it says can be used to book tickets, but that just took him (well, me) to the standard page showing nothing available, so I had to call.

Tickets are apparently available until 10 August "or they have all been sold", so I imagine that they will email people in batches once they see what the take-up is (given that every newsletter subscriber is in the ballot, I suspect it might be lower than they expect).

Interesting, I heard today I was successful too. First time I looked at the booking page it said "returns only" but when I went back there were tickets for most dates.

Got my email about an hour ago and have now booked for 18th September. Yay