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Post by Marwood on Jun 8, 2016 12:21:55 GMT
The Children by Lucy Kirkwood, The Sewing Group by E V Crowe, Pigs and Dogs by Caryl Churchill, Wish List by Katherine Soper and the return of Escaped Alone.
Booked The Children and Pigs And Dogs, combined price of £15 for the pair. I'm not going to bother renewing my membership when it runs out next month, so thought I might as well have one last go of the priority booking.
Anyone else going to any of the above?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2016 13:08:18 GMT
I quite like the look of The Children, but I can't help but notice that Upstairs tickets are now £25 rather than £20 (unless you go for a Monday, not always possible, or a preview, still £20). I like most of the stuff I've seen there, but I don't like the Upstairs auditorium enough to spend £25 on anything up there so I guess I'll be sticking mostly to Downstairs from now on, depending on individual play feedback from trusted friends.
Can't decide if I want to do Pigs And Dogs or not. The price and the running time are great, but the only performance I can do is on a day where I'd have to be at the Globe straight after, which isn't quite the ideal...
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2016 16:30:23 GMT
Will book for everything. £25 is pushing it a little especially as it's my favoured space. Iv just started a love affair with Churchill so may pursuade the BF to sneak this one in the hour before Harry Plopper.
A revival of Escaped Alone!? I enjoyed it but are there really no other new plays good enough to put on instead?
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 8, 2016 16:48:31 GMT
A revival of Escaped Alone!? I enjoyed it but are there really no other new plays good enough to put on instead? It's just a couple of weeks at home to kick off the UK tour and New York transfer. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2016 17:45:44 GMT
A revival of Escaped Alone!? I enjoyed it but are there really no other new plays good enough to put on instead? It's just a couple of weeks at home to kick off the UK tour and New York transfer. Really? That gives me TERRIBLE RAGE TERRIBLE RAGE TERRIBLE RAGE TERRIBLE RAGE TERRIBLE RAGE TERRIBLE RAGE etc |
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Post by DuchessConstance on Jun 8, 2016 22:22:06 GMT
Caryl Churchill officially now clocking in at 50p per minute? Bold new pricing structure.
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Xanderl
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Not always very high value in terms of ticket yield or donations
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Post by Xanderl on Jun 9, 2016 8:22:53 GMT
So Caryl Churchill's last three plays in total are 1 hour 40 minutes I think?
Coming next - "A belch and a fart", 30 seconds, Judi Dench to star.
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Post by perfectspy on Jun 9, 2016 20:12:59 GMT
I also saw Escaped Alone, a very poor piece of theatre.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2016 20:14:31 GMT
I also saw Escaped Alone, a very poor piece of theatre. One of my fav things Iv seen at the RC! However it doesn't need a revival |
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Post by perfectspy on Jun 9, 2016 20:29:07 GMT
I also saw Escaped Alone, a very poor piece of theatre. One of my fav things Iv seen at the RC! However it doesn't need a revival LOL. I'm worried if this is one of the best things you've seen at the Royal Court. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2016 22:05:17 GMT
I can see how it's a love it/hate it show, but if you hate it, that doesn't invalidate the people who love it. For the record, *I* loved In The Republic Of Happiness.  |
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Post by showgirl on Jun 10, 2016 3:44:44 GMT
When I looked to see what was new, it was very hard to see which listings were for "normal" plays and which were for special events or other weirdness. I know it would go totally against the theatre's grain to make this distinction but some of us would appreciate the facility to cut to to the chase.
Then, having trawled through everything and anything, I found nothing of immediate interest anyway; I shall await the reviews, though it may then be too late for some productions.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2016 8:33:07 GMT
Easiest way from the royalcourttheatre.com/whats-on/ page is to look straight at the dates for each production. Any standard play tends to run a little over a month, anything less than that is everything else.  |
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Xanderl
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Post by Xanderl on Sept 19, 2016 10:43:47 GMT
I see the Royal Court is the latest subsidised theatre to get into the dynamic pricing lark - "Prices subject to change. Book early to guarantee the best price"
On this Friday's performance of "Father Comes Home from the War", a price band AA has appeared, and remaining seats in the stalls are now £40 rather than the usual £35. OK it's only a fiver but it's a slippery slope once this starts happening!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2016 10:48:02 GMT
At least dynamic pricing seems designed specifically to penalise the later booker. Speaking entirely selfishly, I'd rather theatres went for dynamic booking, where an organised booker could still get the cheaper price, than just a blanket price increase across the entire theatre and the entire run.
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Xanderl
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Post by Xanderl on Sept 20, 2016 5:29:50 GMT
Having been a bit rude about them yesterday I will be nice today! Phoned them to swap my ticket for "Father Comes Home" to a different date (in this case, one that hadn't been dynamically priced), and not only did they do it with no fee, they kept the price at what I'd paid when I first booked, which included a multi-buy discount.
They've done the same for me in the past.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2016 13:13:59 GMT
Ron Cook, Francesca Annis and Deborah Findlay star in 'The Children' according to the former home of the Theatre Board that shall not be named.
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