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Post by crowblack on Mar 14, 2019 9:06:57 GMT
under 30/key workers rush. Also only good if you live locally to London because you can't get advance train or coach tickets. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2019 10:42:45 GMT
Well he hasn't cut the hair sadly but Hiddles is rocking a tight top for his fans. I'm more of a Cox man myself (fnar) and he's looking suitably foxy.  Nice to see Meghan Markdown still doing a bit of acting in between her royal duties too.  |
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Post by kathryn on Mar 14, 2019 11:25:30 GMT
I swear that’s the same blue jumper he had been wearing for the past 2 years - or one very like it. It’s like a running joke now!
Pleased to see good reviews for this - mainly 4 stars, with a couple of 3s.
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Post by crowblack on Mar 14, 2019 12:26:49 GMT
if you are too poor to travel £15 plus far-in-advance tickets at £17 each way is do-able. To advance book with only a few day's notice would cost £45 each way or even more. |
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Post by lonlad on Mar 14, 2019 12:39:42 GMT
5 stars from Shenton, Time Out, and The Independent --- and me. Of the dozen or so BETRAYALs I've seen over the years, this is easily the most moving and also the most exquisite to look at. An absolute triumph in pretty much every way. Charlie Cox hands down the best Jerry I have seen in a fiendishly difficult role, and Hiddleston really is amazing: humanising a part that the script presents as fairly
monstrous.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2019 12:45:03 GMT
5 stars from Shenton, Time Out, and The Independent --- and me. Of the dozen or so BETRAYALs I've seen over the years, this is easily the most moving and also the most exquisite to look at. An absolute triumph in pretty much every way. Charlie Cox hands down the best Jerry I have seen in a fiendishly difficult role, and Hiddleston really is amazing: humanising a part that the script presents as fairly monstrous. . . . and Zawe Ashton? Seems a shame to not mention the third actor in a play with only three characters. Yes, I know there's also a waiter in it before everyone jumps down my throat. |
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Post by learfan on Mar 14, 2019 17:17:02 GMT
5 stars from Shenton, Time Out, and The Independent --- and me. Of the dozen or so BETRAYALs I've seen over the years, this is easily the most moving and also the most exquisite to look at. An absolute triumph in pretty much every way. Charlie Cox hands down the best Jerry I have seen in a fiendishly difficult role, and Hiddleston really is amazing: humanising a part that the script presents as fairly monstrous. . . . and Zawe Ashton? Seems a shame to not mention the third actor in a play with only three characters. Yes, I know there's also a waiter in it before everyone jumps down my throat. You wish! |
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Post by londonpostie on Mar 14, 2019 20:12:37 GMT
Going on Monday. I shall be erect at the back of the Royal Circle for the entire occasion - £15 standing, a busman's holiday for someone in my job!
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Post by Jonnyboy on Mar 14, 2019 22:15:01 GMT
Going on Monday. I shall be erect at the back of the Royal Circle for the entire occasion! So which of the actors do you fancy? |
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Post by londonpostie on Mar 15, 2019 10:36:05 GMT
Pinter, of course!
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Post by MrsCondomine on Mar 15, 2019 11:00:18 GMT
Pinter was a fox, let's be honest. Anyone who's seen it, could you tell us: {Spoiler - click to view}
which kid appears in this production? Is it the daughter or the son? |
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Post by jess173 on Mar 15, 2019 12:12:55 GMT
@mrscondomine It’s the daughter. She appears in the kitchen scene, where Jerry is playing with her and throwing her up in the air. Then she spends a couple of minutes on Toms lap (lucky girl 😜) before he carries her offstage. |
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Post by MrsCondomine on Mar 15, 2019 12:16:46 GMT
Thank you jess173 ! I thought it might be the other one {because...}
there's that question over his paternity. But Charlotte makes more sense I guess as she's the connecting thread through some of the scenes. |
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Mar 15, 2019 12:17:12 GMT
Pinter was a fox, let's be honest. Anyone who's seen it, could you tell us: {Spoiler - click to view}which kid appears in this production? Is it the daughter or the son? {Spoiler - click to view}Only the daughter. Quite a long scene of them sleeping together on a chair. Though they were casting for a 4yr old mixed race boy to play the son, so I'm not sure what happened. |
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Post by jess173 on Mar 15, 2019 12:21:39 GMT
@mrscondomine: The paternity question is in there too when Emma confesses to Robert about the affair. Robert questions his paternity because the timelines overlap but Emma ensures him that the boy is his because Jerry was in New York when the boy was conceived. But it’s all just talking without the actual child. |
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Post by noboiscout on Mar 15, 2019 12:38:28 GMT
Thought I'd try for a ticket, given the good reviews, even though I find Pinter depressing most of the time. Strange how there are no balcony tickets available for the run - ATG wouldn't be trying to flog all the expensive tickets in the stalls and circle, before they decide to release the balcony seats - or possibly every balcony seat has already been sold?
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Post by kathryn on Mar 15, 2019 12:40:57 GMT
Thought I'd try for a ticket, given the good reviews, even though I find Pinter depressing most of the time. Strange how there are no balcony tickets available for the run - ATG wouldn't be trying to flog all the expensive tickets in the stalls and circle, before they decide to release the balcony seats - or possibly every balcony seat has already been sold? There was still the odd balcony seat available this morning - mainly mid-week. Few and far between though. The cheap seats always sell first. |
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Post by kathryn on Mar 15, 2019 13:38:19 GMT
I’m surprised that they haven’t announced an NT Live screening, to be honest.
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Post by jamesxxx on Mar 15, 2019 14:20:10 GMT
I'm sorry but I thought this was dreadful.
I dunno but I sensed the audience thought it was dreadful too. People walked out.
TV and film acting on a stage does not work.
Lazy acting, Lazy design too.
Sorry.
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Post by lynette on Mar 15, 2019 17:06:40 GMT
I'm sorry but I thought this was dreadful. I dunno but I sensed the audience thought it was dreadful too. People walked out. TV and film acting on a stage does not work. Lazy acting, Lazy design too. Sorry. Don’t worry, we are very inclusive here. 😂 |
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Post by Marwood on Mar 15, 2019 19:25:06 GMT
Forgive me if I’ve missed someone posting previously, but what’s the running time (I’m seeing it next Friday)?
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Post by altamont on Mar 15, 2019 19:34:35 GMT
The website says 90 minutes no interval
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Post by Marwood on Mar 15, 2019 21:48:04 GMT
The website says 90 minutes no interval Cheers |
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Post by foxa on Mar 16, 2019 12:29:27 GMT
Yeah, I was there last night and it was 90 minutes, no interval. I was disappointed. I've read the play several times and, I suppose, had imagined a production in my head which this didn't live up to. I had thought that these three characters loved each other - perhaps in a very English middle-class way - sometimes under-stated, sometimes twisted or hurtful - but that there was passion. In this cold, minimalist production, I didn't get that. No one seemed to fancy anyone all that much and what I had thought was a rather glorious final speech went for pretty much nothing, with Cox's slow, considered performance of what I had imagined was a passionate, off-the-cuff, creative, thought-associated improvised declaration. However, my enjoyment was possibly impeded by our poor seats. In the pre-sale, I'd snapped up £25 Row B Royal Circle tickets which were meant to have a slight restriction due to a safety railing. I've deal with many a safety railing before so wasn't too worried, but the positioning of the seats, especially when behind a large-headed fidgety man, big on tilting his head and leaning forward meant that large portions of the stage, even with my leaning to the side, were blocked out. Since the staging is very static and most scenes are duologues, it usually meant that, at best, I could choose to lean and look at one of the actors, or lean the other way to see the other way. So perhaps there was some great stuff going on that I missed. BTW - we weren't going to the stage door, but exited by there and the queue was HUGE - one of the longest I've ever seen, snaking around the corner. Also {Spoiler - click to view}
the minimalist design made a nonsense of some of the nuanced moments - such as when she proudly puts out the tablecloth she has bought in Italy. The cloth chosen was very small and very plain - something no one could imagine getting excited about or evoking Italy - and was placed on a little flimsy folding table. The audience laughed and Cox looked at her as if she was slightly mad, rather than being charmed by it or whatever. |
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Post by sweets7 on Mar 16, 2019 18:48:43 GMT
Saw it today and really liked it. My friend and I were perplexed by all the people going for the Hiddleston casting who were chatting about other big celeb shows they went to. Loads of people left as play ended to get to stage door. But as my friend said, it is the nearest you get to these people ìn real life I suppose.
Anyway the play itself was very good. With the staging almost an extra character. A simple story told exceptionally well. Although I bet Joan Bakewell wanted to kill him. Not nice people at all and Jerry in particular came across as a pig. With not much chemistry between any of them to really feel they cared. That may have been a directorial choice though as I have never seen the play before.
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