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Post by andrew on Jul 13, 2023 21:28:25 GMT
I’m not the most tech person around here ( mods alert 😁) but I do find the email tix thing irritating. Sometimes you can’t see the tix on the email and sometimes you get a confirmation and then another email with the tix so do you have to keep both? Then they all lie there in my flagged in no particular order. So scroll scroll as you enter the venue. I often take a screenshot of the ticket and attach it to the event in my phones calendar, so I can easily pull it up on the day. For the NT you can use any email as your ticket, QR code or not. Also they’re still happy to print you a ticket at the box office.
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Post by Latecomer on Jul 14, 2023 8:20:05 GMT
I’m not the most tech person around here ( mods alert 😁) but I do find the email tix thing irritating. Sometimes you can’t see the tix on the email and sometimes you get a confirmation and then another email with the tix so do you have to keep both? Then they all lie there in my flagged in no particular order. So scroll scroll as you enter the venue. I often take a screenshot of the ticket and attach it to the event in my phones calendar, so I can easily pull it up on the day. For the NT you can use any email as your ticket, QR code or not. Also they’re still happy to print you a ticket at the box office. Wow! You can do that? Thanks for the tip….off to try it out!!!!!
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Post by mrnutz on Jul 14, 2023 8:28:08 GMT
Not sure I've ever had my ticket checked properly at the NT!
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Post by thistimetomorrow on Jul 16, 2023 19:54:01 GMT
Was on my account earlier and saw this:
You can submit a request to exchange tickets you can no longer use for credit on your National Theatre account. You can then use this credit to pay for another booking for this production, or for any other show bookable on this website. A ticket handling charge of £2 per ticket will be deducted from the value of your tickets for this service.
This used to be free right? Does anyone know when they introduced this fee for exchanges?
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Post by n1david on Jul 16, 2023 20:13:13 GMT
I think it's been £2 for a while, although they often waived it if you were nice to them or the person dealing with you was having a good day.
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Post by thistimetomorrow on Jul 16, 2023 22:06:11 GMT
they often waived it if you were nice to them or the person dealing with you was having a good day. oh interesting! I've always just emailed them with my order number and never been asked to pay a fee so I didn't know if this was a new thing or not.
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Post by bordeaux on Jul 17, 2023 17:53:25 GMT
The prime example of a living English playwright who has a huge reputation abroad (France and Germany in this case) but whose work hardly ever gets staged here these days (quite understandably in my view) is Edward Bond. Some of our younger readers have probably never heard of him. I notice on imdb.com that Bond is credited as one of the writers (Homer is one of the others) on The Return, a story of Odysseus' arrival home in Ithaca, starring Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche, directed by Uberto Pasolini, now in production. And that he'll be 89 tomorrow.
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Post by nottobe on Jul 19, 2023 21:07:19 GMT
I hadn't realised that this year is the NT's 60th anniversary. I really enjoyed the 50th celebration the did via DVD so hope they are planning something this year that is big.
Aside that today RuNo and some others where with the Prime Minister and it all looks very sucking up like and a bit embarrassing.
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Post by teamyali on Jul 20, 2023 5:03:52 GMT
Same thoughts too. It’s the NT’s 60th anniversary this year and I hope RuNo comes up with a special performance or something in the likes before he steps down.
Some of the NT’s critical and/or commercial hits under his tenure that I can think of. I know some have been planned pre-RuNo era though but were only staged under his tenure:
Small Island Standing at the Sky’s Edge The Motive and the Cue The Ocean at the End of the Lane Follies The Lehman Trilogy The Crucible (directed by Lyndsey Turner) Death of England trilogy The Normal Heart Angels in America Antony and Cleopatra (directed by Simon Godwin) Network Dear England Mosquitoes Romeo and Juliet (the lockdown movie) Phaedra
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Post by Dave B on Jul 24, 2023 8:51:45 GMT
Mark Shenton's newsletter today says he has heard Indhu Rubasingham has been offered the AD job.
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Post by zahidf on Jul 24, 2023 10:04:07 GMT
Mark Shenton's newsletter today says he has heard Indhu Rubasingham has been offered the AD job.
Ah, good appointment if true. Seemed very likely with the timing from her leaving KIln
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Post by Jan on Jul 24, 2023 14:18:03 GMT
Same thoughts too. It’s the NT’s 60th anniversary this year and I hope RuNo comes up with a special performance or something in the likes before he steps down. Some of the NT’s critical and/or commercial hits under his tenure that I can think of. I know some have been planned pre-RuNo era though but were only staged under his tenure: Small Island Standing at the Sky’s Edge The Motive and the Cue The Ocean at the End of the Lane Follies The Lehman Trilogy The Crucible (directed by Lyndsey Turner) Death of England trilogy The Normal Heart Angels in America Antony and Cleopatra (directed by Simon Godwin) Network Dear England Mosquitoes Romeo and Juliet (the lockdown movie) Phaedra Only two plays there written before 1950 and they are two of the more popular Shakespeare’s. I’m not counting Phaedra because it bore little relation to any of the source plays. If you needed any confirmation that the NT is failing in its duty there it is.
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Post by Jan on Jul 24, 2023 14:37:35 GMT
Mark Shenton's newsletter today says he has heard Indhu Rubasingham has been offered the AD job.
Ah, good appointment if true. Might be good, might not be, let’s see. Programming a 300 seat fringe venue is different to programming NT. Also I was unimpressed by her attitude during the controversies over renaming the Tricycle and also the Jewish Film Festival cancellation. Not to say she wasn’t right (although they had to apologise for the latter) but she seemed lacking in diplomatic skills as a minimum which may not be good for the NT.
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Post by londonpostie on Jul 24, 2023 15:18:51 GMT
Assuming Shenton is accurate, taking on the three-ring Southbank circus with its international profile and numerous added pressures feels like an almighty upgrade. Presumably, a test of character before anything else, and about that we don't know much.
Glad to see a long lead-in, must be an extraordinary amount to get on top of, not least programming.
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Post by zahidf on Jul 24, 2023 15:36:46 GMT
She has been directing a few things there over the last few years, so not coming in completely cold. She must have given a good interview as well.
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Post by Jan on Jul 24, 2023 16:14:39 GMT
She has been directing a few things there over the last few years, so not coming in completely cold. She must have given a good interview as well. I doubt there were many serious applicants. Superficially to me she looks like continuity Norris but we‘ll see in due course.
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Post by londonpostie on Jul 24, 2023 16:22:32 GMT
She has been directing a few things there over the last few years, so not coming in completely cold. Let's hope she doesn't fancy herself as a lyricist ..
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Post by princeton on Jul 24, 2023 16:26:16 GMT
She actually first directed at the National more than 20 years ago, during Trevor Nunn's tenure as AD, though doesn't seem to have done anything there during the Hytner years, but more than made up for it in the last five or six. She's directed productions on all three of the National's stages which works in her favour - but she has been almost entirely focussed on new works - with almost no classic work in her cannon. That's fine, as long as she gets some other people to direct those.
I've actually found much of the Rufus Norris years refreshing and enjoyable (hell I even just about managed to find something positive in 'Common' - though maybe the very, very low expectations helped) and I do think that National should do a lot of new writing. However, the balance between revivals - particularly of well-directed classic work - and new hasn't quite been right for some time. So hopefully if she does get the job, she'll recognise where her own directorial strengths, weakness and interests lie - and surround herself with creatives who can fill the gaps - and have some experience in these areas.
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Post by lynette on Jul 26, 2023 17:19:33 GMT
Time will tell……
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Post by MrBunbury on Sept 9, 2023 22:03:02 GMT
Today I completed a survey for the National Theatre (one of those on theatre habits with a potential prize at the end) and among the questions there were some questions on how much I would spend for potential future productions with actual examples. A couple were things I had not seen mentioned before so I was wondering if someone else had heard about them:
"Hamlet" with Idris Elba "West Side Stories"
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Post by crowblack on Sept 9, 2023 22:21:51 GMT
He's 51 though - surely not playing the Dane?
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Post by Fleance on Sept 9, 2023 22:28:11 GMT
Today I completed a survey for the National Theatre (one of those on theatre habits with a potential prize at the end) and among the questions there were some questions on how much I would spend for potential future productions with actual examples. A couple were things I had not seen mentioned before so I was wondering if someone else had heard about them: "Hamlet" with Idris Elba "West Side Stories" I completed that survey today as well. The questions that intrigued me most were my feelings about the Kiln and the Old Vic. They were the only two theaters that were singled out for specific questions, as I recall. Subtle Rufus replacement queries, do you think?
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Post by bobby on Sept 9, 2023 22:44:44 GMT
I also completed the survey, some of which I found very interesting. I would imagine Indhu Rubasingham is a massive potential to run the National.
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Post by nottobe on Sept 9, 2023 23:17:07 GMT
The survey I did also had Old Vic aimed question so maybe Matthew Warchus also in running ?
Also god we do not need another bloody Hamlet there and with Idris Elba and the hypothetical questions they asked about prices I'm sure it would be eye wateringly high. Also please not another Peter Pan!
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Post by Jon on Sept 10, 2023 0:27:15 GMT
6pm seems too early for an evening performance, 7pm is more likely IMO.
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Post by showgirl on Sept 10, 2023 2:36:38 GMT
I also completed the survey but found it frustrating in places as these things always are: sometimes I could only select 1 option when 2 or more would have applied, yet at others - particularly the dire "membership/support" section - every option was awful and they were all far too expensive. Ditto with the suggested productions: I preferred the new work or re-interpretations of classics, yet the questions which followed were all about blasted Shakespeare or Sondheim. As if they aren't already done to death everywhere, all the time! I was left feeling that the NT had no idea who I was, what I wanted to see, when and how much I was prepared to pay - and didn't even want to know any of these things. I did like the idea of early evening performances, particularly 6 pm starts, as they'd mean far less hanging around after a matinee and an easier journey home by public transport.
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Post by Someone in a tree on Sept 10, 2023 7:53:23 GMT
Can anypost post the info about the Sondheim question(s) please and ta
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Post by Dave B on Sept 10, 2023 8:12:35 GMT
Peter Pan adapted by Zadie SmithNeverland awaits. The much-loved story of adventure and growing up is given a magical new staging
Nye a new play by Tim Price starring Michael SheenThe story of Aneurin 'Nye' Bevan's extraordinary life in a dynamic and spectacular production. From campaigning at the coalfield to leading the battle to create the NHS, Nye Bevan shaped key aspects of modern Britain.
West Side Story by Stephen SondheimThe much-loved classic musical in an exhilarating new production. In 1950s New York, two young people from rival gangs fall in love, but tensions build towards tragedy.
Macbeth by Shakespeare The famous tragedy in a brand new, epic staging. A story of ruthless ambition and its consequences, shot through with magic and murder.
Underdog a new play by Sarah Gordon A funny and irreverent retelling of the lives of the Brontë sisters, looking behind the legend to tell the story of the sibling power dynamics that shaped their uneven rise to fame
Hamlet by Shakespeare starring Idris Elba To be, or not to be? An electrifying new production of Shakespeare's classic tale of how the Prince of Denmark seeks to avenge his father's murder. ---
My note, Nye with Michael Sheen has already been announced.
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Post by Dave B on Sept 10, 2023 8:16:18 GMT
The survey was very money centric geared to the price of tickets It also seemed geared towards the high prices, I was asked about £126 more than once. Not a single mention of Rush, £20 seats or Amex Previews etc.
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Post by Fleance on Sept 10, 2023 9:48:31 GMT
The questions about seating were odd as well. The choices were whether you preferred the back on the side, or the front in the center, but not the front on the side, which I prefer.
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