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Post by showgirl on May 12, 2019 3:50:12 GMT
Hope those day-seating yesterday were successful. I was at the matinee in a pre-booked seat, which the Box Office staff kindly changed to move me forward slightly (by 2 rows, but still in my preferred aisle seat). I was a bit concerned that the assistant did not change the booking bur merely noted the new seat number on my ticket as I felt anyone could have written that and it could be awkward if the same seat was then given to someone else. Sure enough, in due course along came a lady who had also been moved to the same seat (apparently the balcony was closed so a fair number of seats had been changed). The usher went away with her ticket and mine and came back to offer the lady another seat, only to find that this too had already been given to someone else. It was 3rd time lucky for the lady eventually and she was moved to the row in front of mine, but hard on her and the usher and it could have been avoided had the Box Office had a system in place for re-allocating seats.
As for the play itself, I did enjoy it once it started though felt it could easily have lost 15 mins and I wasn't so keen on the declaiming style of the 2nd Emilia, but at the end there was one of the most spontaneous and complete standing ovations I've ever seen.
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Post by Stephen on May 20, 2019 1:32:46 GMT
Saw this (quite drunk) on Saturday night. It’s very funny in parts, powerful in parts and quite random in parts. Overall I enjoyed it.
I did spend a while fearing another Don Quixote where I might have ended up part of the action but it was not to be. Probably for the best, I was sloshed!
The audience was made up mainly of white middle class women and their children though. Might have been a more mixed crowd at the globe?
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Post by lynette on May 25, 2019 20:26:16 GMT
When it was at the Globe I left at the interval so I will never know what was even worse at the end. Preachy, was it? A bit down on men?
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Post by Dr Tom on May 27, 2019 17:49:54 GMT
When it was at the Globe I left at the interval so I will never know what was even worse at the end. Preachy, was it? A bit down on men? It was possibly accurate, but the problem was that men who chose to attend this type of performance would be unlikely to gender discriminate. So it was (intentionally?) insulting to that minority. |
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Post by lynette on May 28, 2019 18:05:09 GMT
Yeah, thought so.
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Post by cherokee on May 31, 2019 16:55:22 GMT
I went with very high expectations having seen a lot of love on twitter for the show. I have to admit, sadly my expectations weren't met. While it had good intentions, and it was refreshing to see such a diverse, all-female cast on stage, I found the piece rather unsubtle. All the men were boorish, vacuous and villainous and all the women feisty, honourable and sympathetic. When Jackie Clune's Lord Flash-Heart-like Thomas Howard responded to an audience member's booing with an ad-libbed: "This isn't panto!", my immediate thought was, yes it kind of is.
I was intrigued in Act 1, and I liked the scene with Emilia and her three 'debutante' ladies. Act 2 played out in a particular predictable way, and the final speech, obviously intended to provoke the requisite whoops and standing ovation, made me cringe. The cast on the whole were fine. Sarah Seggari was a standout for me: funny and with real charisma. And I liked Adelle Leonce and Saffron Coomber as the two younger Emilias, whereas Clare Perkins I found a little wooden at times. Amanda Wilkin didn't work for me either, landed with the comedy role of the useless husband but without the comic ability to carry it off. And as commendable as it is to cast a deaf actor, I'm afraid that way up in the Upper Circle, I couldn't understand about half of her lines. (Charity Wakefield also struggled to project all the way up there too.)
Three stars for trying.
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Post by bob2010 on Nov 20, 2020 13:34:41 GMT
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Post by eliza on Nov 20, 2020 19:13:05 GMT
Thank you for this! I was really sad to miss this so will definitely watch! |
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Post by Forrest on Nov 23, 2020 12:00:41 GMT
Like lynette, I left before the interval last night too.
I didn't like this at all: I didn't find it funny, found the characters stereotypical to an annoying extreme (quite an unusual choice for a play about a woman defying stereotypical expectations), and overall I just failed to connect with it in any way. I lasted some 40 minutes before I turned it off and conceded that it just isn't the play for me.
Ah, well, it has to happen from time to time.
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Post by peggs on Nov 23, 2020 19:52:20 GMT
Was the recording decent @forrest ?
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Post by Forrest on Nov 23, 2020 21:17:53 GMT
peggs, it's decent: the music isn't really audible (you can tell when it happens, but not really hear it well) but the dialogues are quite understandable. There's also a version with subtitles if you find you're struggling to hear/understand everything.
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Post by lynette on Nov 24, 2020 15:14:28 GMT
Like lynette, I left before the interval last night too. I didn't like this at all: I didn't find it funny, found the characters stereotypical to an annoying extreme (quite an unusual choice for a play about a woman defying stereotypical expectations), and overall I just failed to connect with it in any way. I lasted some 40 minutes before I turned it off and conceded that it just isn't the play for me. Ah, well, it has to happen from time to time. Funny to have ‘left’ an online. You could have done your yoga with it running in the background...anyway, i am not alone as The Telegraph has been repeatedly telling me. |
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Post by Forrest on Nov 24, 2020 16:38:41 GMT
Yoga with Emilia instead of yoga with Adriene, lynette ? :) I think I can still watch it if I choose to, until 2 December, but somehow don't think I'll go back to it, there was no spark, somehow. |
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Post by cherokee on Dec 11, 2020 16:12:38 GMT
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