New Young Vic 2020 season

Very excited by each announced work. Isn't it a bit early to announce shows for the autumn of 2020 though?

To be honest I'd rather have hot needles driven into my eyes while being rolled naked in acid and glass than ever have to sit through another Hamlet. But Cush Jumbo!! I have never seen her on stage as I returned my ticket for Common and missed her earlier stuff but she's amazing on The Good Fight so I may have to grit my teeth.........

Shame about Common.  Fascinating subject, great cast. The playwright just threw too much stuff into it, rather than just focusing on the drama around the enclosure acts. I still think the opening of Act II -- Anne-Marie Duff coming out of the grave, with that bird sitting there -- is one of the funniest scenes I've ever seen at the NT.

Regarding the Young Vic schedule, I'm underwhelmed.

I'm guessing he's Jumbo's choice though ( says they are collabarators)    

Problems with priority booking this morning as website didn't recognise I had a Friends membership so kept putting a £50 membership in my basket and when I'd remove it, it would take out my tickets. I called and spoke to someone in the Box Office who was helpful and I ended up booking £10 seats for everything - and am happy with that. But I hear there is a further problem with the Mastercard payments so they are putting some tweets out about that. If you have a different credit card worth trying that.

So - not a smooth first day of booking for them, but I also didn't get the feeling there were thousands and thousands of people trying to book - when I first logged on I was number 5 and when I tried to log on later I was 273.

Booked for Nora A Dolls House all very painless pleased to report

Yes, I'm waiting. If I lived in London and could take advantage of the weeknight preview prices, I'd be tempted to book now, but seat plans haven't been released and I have no idea where my life will be that far ahead. I rarely manage to keep to dates booked 3 months ahead, let alone a year.

There's also HS2 disruption to consider as I generally book for Saturdays and some weekends everything's shut for track works... 

Not enough of a draw to book so far in advance allied with the unknown seat position.

From a marketing perspective being so distant, do wonder how you manage to keep the bookings trickling in.

Usually,
- fanfare of season announcement
- fanfare of booking now open
- finally the previews and reviews as a final push

This all occurs within a reasonably short period of time during which social media and natural interest is enough to keep the shows in the public domain.

Hamlet is a year away, will they need to keep the formal marketing ticking over at a cost, must assume having cash in the bank is enough of to balance the additional workload.

For me the Almeida model for the last season worked well, a 6 month window with the release of each show staggered to reduce the initial cost of buying multiple shows at one time.

I have just purchased my very first 60+ discounted ticket for August next year!!

I don't actually know but as a Young Vic friend and early booker who usually goes for cheap seats, £10 might get you up upstairs on the side (Twelfth Night)  or it might get you front row centre (A Man of Good Hope).  I went for the £20 band for Death of a Salesman and had superb seats on the aisle downstairs - perfect really. I'm rarely disappointed with Young Vic seats for the £.