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Post by londonpostie on Sept 20, 2021 12:30:16 GMT
They're probably trying to sell it to a new, 20-something, film orientated, audience as *fresh* and *radical*. Presumably this will be filmed (international appeal).
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Post by adolphus on Sept 20, 2021 13:08:34 GMT
Maybe they'll tell the audience that they are trees and we'll all be asked to clamber on to the stage at the end
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Post by Jan on Sept 20, 2021 14:14:48 GMT
What is refreshing about putting the Macbeths at the heart of the play?. Agree. Nothing at all. They are always at the heart of the play because there’s nothing else to put there - you’re hardly going to build the play around the English scene are you. Maybe the director *hasn’t* seen the play before, many people who work in theatre aren’t keen theatregoers. I recall when Patrick Stewart played Macbeth when he was 67 he said he’d only ever seen one production of it. The post-apocalyptic setting is hardly new either, Norris’ hopeless NT production had it too.
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Post by Jan on Sept 23, 2021 11:23:38 GMT
No real problem getting tickets when the second part of public booking opened today, queue was not that long and there were plenty available, mostly with some sort of restricted view but by no means all, picked up some unrestricted ones in Circle.
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Post by londonpostie on Sept 23, 2021 11:27:30 GMT
LOL. That whooshing noise is thousands of people throwing rubber bricks at you ...
Interesting timing in the BBC - guaranteeing another headline about 'fasting selling show' bollix >
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Post by peggs on Sept 23, 2021 11:31:36 GMT
That'll be me, 3000 in queue which is about same as last time. Entirely pointless.
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Post by ThereWillBeSun on Sept 23, 2021 11:32:08 GMT
I am trying too....
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Post by cavocado on Sept 23, 2021 11:36:24 GMT
I was only 389 in the queue this time, so managed to get a ticket. I noticed there were a lot of dates missing, presumably already sold out to members e.g. the whole of school half term.
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Post by ThereWillBeSun on Sept 23, 2021 11:45:05 GMT
GREAT
Message last updated: 12:44 We’re sorry but tickets have now sold out for performances between 18 Oct – 6 Nov. Please check back for more tickets when the next booking period opens from 12pm on 18 Oct.
If a ticket is returned in advance we will make it immediately available to buy, so keep checking back for tickets. If a ticket is returned just before a performance the tickets will be offered to the returns queue at the theatre on a first-come, first-served basis.
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Post by Jan on Sept 23, 2021 11:46:00 GMT
I was only 389 in the queue this time, so managed to get a ticket. I noticed there were a lot of dates missing, presumably already sold out to members e.g. the whole of school half term. Yes that was odd - maybe reserved for the people from those cancelled performances ? Normally they would still list them but with "Sold Out" against them like the earlier dates.
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Post by peggs on Sept 23, 2021 11:47:41 GMT
It better be flipping awful after all this.
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Post by asfound on Sept 23, 2021 11:52:22 GMT
Saw a whole bunch of front row tickets become available for matinee which doesn't seem to exist on the Almeida website calendar (13th October). Clicked them and - oh joy! - they are only £25 for NHS workers! Tried to add two to my basket only to get some nonsense error message about "your order is too complex". Tried again and they had all gone. Boo!
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Post by wannabedirector on Sept 23, 2021 11:57:36 GMT
Struggled with this today. Got over 2000 in the queue, but managed to get through on the phone just in time to get a ticket (after a lot of trying).
Am assuming that the half term performances are blocked off as part of Almeida for Free (as they did with Andrew Scott’s Hamlet and Summer and Smoke).
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Post by cavocado on Sept 23, 2021 12:20:51 GMT
Struggled with this today. Got over 2000 in the queue, but managed to get through on the phone just in time to get a ticket (after a lot of trying). Am assuming that the half term performances are blocked off as part of Almeida for Free (as they did with Andrew Scott’s Hamlet and Summer and Smoke). That's a very good reason. Credit to the Almeida for not cashing in on their star names.
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Post by fiyerorocher on Sept 23, 2021 12:36:11 GMT
Managed to get a £10 ticket in the circle a few minutes ago - worth refreshing to see if the odd return pops up
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Post by ThereWillBeSun on Sept 23, 2021 12:48:23 GMT
Managed to get a £10 ticket in the circle a few minutes ago - worth refreshing to see if the odd return pops up which date please? thank you - well done!
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Post by fiyerorocher on Sept 23, 2021 12:49:46 GMT
Managed to get a £10 ticket in the circle a few minutes ago - worth refreshing to see if the odd return pops up which date please? thank you - well done! Random Wednesday matinee in October - which I only realised was a matinee after I booked, so I'll be taking a day off work, it seems...
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Post by lynette on Sept 23, 2021 14:07:15 GMT
which date please? thank you - well done! Random Wednesday matinee in October - which I only realised was a matinee after I booked, so I'll be taking a day off work, it seems... Working from Home which for us is ( or used to be ) the theatre…
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Post by Forrest on Sept 23, 2021 22:16:18 GMT
I just came to say that, of course, I had a meeting at the exact time the tickets went on sale and I didn't manage to get one. By the time we finished talking, they were all long sold out. I am beginning to think that me and James McArdle are not meant to meet at the Almeida after all... :( (...although I did bump into him and Ronan presumably going home from rehearsals the other day on Upper Street. That might be the closest I'll get to this production, it seems...)
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Post by jampot on Sept 28, 2021 16:11:14 GMT
First night off..
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Post by couldileaveyou on Sept 29, 2021 0:08:04 GMT
Sorry what does this mean? Has the first performance been cancelled? Yes, the performance supposed to take place on October 1st has been cancelled
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Post by theoracle on Oct 3, 2021 20:37:09 GMT
Did anyone have a chance to see this last night? Could someone report a running time please?
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Post by altamont on Oct 3, 2021 21:03:34 GMT
All I've picked up from Twitter is that there is an interval
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Post by foolswhodream on Oct 4, 2021 22:02:23 GMT
Did anyone have a chance to see this last night? Could someone report a running time please? Finished about 10:10pm this evening!
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Post by theoracle on Oct 4, 2021 22:54:15 GMT
Did anyone have a chance to see this last night? Could someone report a running time please? Finished about 10:10pm this evening! Thanks for this. I was there too this evening and thoroughly enjoyed it. James McArdle is extraordinarily articulate on stage and breathed life into Macbeth. Naturally he had great chemistry with Saoirse who also delivered a fine performance. I actually felt the whole cast did a great job and Yael Farber has done a fantastic job on the material. It certainly didn’t feel like 3hrs 10mins but I had to run out the door to catch a train from Paddington.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Oct 5, 2021 14:42:09 GMT
3 hours 10 for a Macbeth? ? The text is 2 hours, possibly 2 hours 20. How???
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Post by NeilVHughes on Oct 5, 2021 14:55:53 GMT
My thoughts, the only 3hr Macbeth I have seen was the Ningawa and that was because the Cherry Blossom was as much an integral character as Macbeth and the staging was unbelievably impressive.
A play that works best when staged straight through without an interval and an ~2hr running time.
Intrigued to see how they make it last 3hrs but cannot see how it can be done without becoming turgid as it is a play that requires pace to build tension as the tragedy unfolds.
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Post by couldileaveyou on Oct 5, 2021 15:02:32 GMT
I'm ready to bet there's a lot of ritualistic stuff going on
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Post by Jan on Oct 5, 2021 15:18:00 GMT
3 hours 10 for a Macbeth? ? The text is 2 hours, possibly 2 hours 20. How??? At one time Katie Mitchell was planning a production of Macbeth. I bet she could have pushed the running time up to 3:45 easily.
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Post by theatrefan77 on Oct 5, 2021 16:09:53 GMT
Good to hear some positive things. My friend didn't like it much, although he praised the acting. He doesn't like Yael Farber style though and thought that this production is worse and more ill conceived that her Salome at the National theatre.
I'll reserve my judgement until I see it
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