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Post by Being Alive on Oct 8, 2024 20:40:43 GMT
Another opportunity to see this being announced in the morning
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Post by thaneofglamis on Oct 8, 2024 20:48:35 GMT
Quite a few £20 standing tickets just got listed for this week.
Thanks. I planned on a quiet weekend but this was too tempting.
Would be interested in hearing your experience of seeing it standing, if you don’t mind sharing afterwards. 👍🏻 |
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Post by lolli on Oct 9, 2024 7:57:44 GMT
Lots of £35 tickets for most dates now on ATG tickets
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Post by Dave B on Oct 9, 2024 10:47:34 GMT
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Post by greatauntedna on Oct 10, 2024 9:00:00 GMT
Apparently Act 4 Scene 1 has changed since last year, anybody know how?
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Post by ronweasley on Oct 10, 2024 19:16:26 GMT
Am I right in saying 20 front row seats at £25 are released everyday at the box office? I’m sure I read this but struggling to find details online
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Post by mistressjojo on Oct 11, 2024 7:16:43 GMT
Am I right in saying 20 front row seats at £25 are released everyday at the box office? I’m sure I read this but struggling to find details online Check their X feed for updates. |
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Post by bethxoxo on Oct 12, 2024 7:28:07 GMT
Update on waiting for tickets at the box office I came today sat (12th Oct) at just after 7, there was at least 7 or 8 people in front of me, and by now 8.30 there are about 6 or 7 people behind me. Hope that helps somone as I was looking for info like this before I came. Obvs this is just this particular day
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Post by bethxoxo on Oct 12, 2024 7:28:44 GMT
Update on waiting for tickets at the box office I came today sat (12th Oct) at just after 7, there was at least 7 or 8 people in front of me, and by now 8.30 there are about 6 or 7 people behind me. Hope that helps somone as I was looking for info like this before I came. Obvs this is just this particular day Forgot to say this is am as the box office opens at 10am |
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Post by ronweasley on Oct 12, 2024 20:47:01 GMT
That’s great, thanks! Did you get a front row seat? How was it?
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Post by aspieandy on Oct 13, 2024 18:54:15 GMT
Thanks. I planned on a quiet weekend but this was too tempting.
Would be interested in hearing your experience of seeing it standing, if you don’t mind sharing afterwards. 👍🏻
The standing is fine. You are at the back of the top tier so some way distant but it's ok. Having seen it before, I knew when the interval occurred and had scouted a handy empty seat which I slipped into for the second hour.
One thing that's a little curious for me is there is an interval (although they don't call it that), and this production is done inside 2 hours total. The play is effectively 1 hour 45. They have their reasons, I'm sure, but why not bite the bullet, add 10-15 mins of scenes and formalise the break .. it is abbreviated, imo.
Having said that, I enjoyed it here more than at the Donmar, where it was already pretty interesting. It fizzes along, aided by a much developed soundscape.
In what is a communal activity, it still feels somewhat incongruous to be wearing a headset, although it serves the aural purpose so well you can buy in.
Tennant gets to wear the kilt, Cush perfectly fine as the Doctor's assistant. Young audience; good to see.
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Post by dip on Oct 16, 2024 13:26:20 GMT
This version makes use of the headphones so much better than the original Donmar run.
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Post by aspieandy on Oct 16, 2024 15:57:10 GMT
Def. At the risk of an exaggeration, it felt like we'd gone from enthusiastic am dram to Jonny Greenwood* > There Will Be Blood
* who, afaik, has never come out (as neurodiverse) but presents with a full dance card.
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Post by parsley1 on Oct 16, 2024 22:51:19 GMT
I can’t believe tickets are £250 for what’s left in the stalls
This was one of the worst Macbeth’s I saw at The Donmar
The price people pay is amazing
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Post by aspieandy on Oct 20, 2024 17:18:24 GMT
parsley - Some days, it feels like you are pretty stuck for something to moan about. There is plenty of choice, online and day tickets. You can even see it for £20 as I did; booked 2 weeks ago, saw it last week.
It's an interesting Macbeth. I'd say more accessible than any other I have seen; you can either see that as a positive or sneer.
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Post by Being Alive on Oct 20, 2024 17:25:32 GMT
It's super accessible, with a star in it who is opening Shakespeare up to a wider audience who'd never consider going otherwise.
Whilst there were elements I didn't care for, I'm glad it's there and is doing well (and you can get in for cheap if you're smart about it)
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Post by parsley1 on Oct 20, 2024 20:21:02 GMT
parsley - Some days, it feels like you are pretty stuck for something to moan about. There is plenty of choice, online and day tickets. You can even see it for £20 as I did; booked 2 weeks ago, saw it last week.
It's an interesting Macbeth. I'd say more accessible than any other I have seen; you can either see that as a positive or sneer.
The only tickets available online on ATG are all at £250 My point was this is pretty outrageous even if it’s for a “accessible” and not even complete Macbeth People have expressed outrage at pricing for many other shows here I can’t see anything currently available to book under the price I mentioned This isn’t really “plenty of choice” nor “accessible” |
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Post by aspieandy on Oct 20, 2024 21:09:39 GMT
It's Sunday night, of course there isn't. No one's worked the website since Friday. You must know how this stuff operates.
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Post by ceebee on Oct 20, 2024 21:46:59 GMT
Fair is foul and foul is fair.
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Post by Jan on Oct 21, 2024 7:00:33 GMT
It's super accessible, with a star in it who is opening Shakespeare up to a wider audience who'd never consider going otherwise. I wonder if that's true ? With the ticket prices for the transfer I would doubt it beyond a handful of day ticket and concession people. Does the audience look notably different to that for any other expensive West End play ? |
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Post by kate8 on Oct 21, 2024 8:06:14 GMT
It's super accessible, with a star in it who is opening Shakespeare up to a wider audience who'd never consider going otherwise. I wonder if that's true ? With the ticket prices for the transfer I would doubt it beyond a handful of day ticket and concession people. Does the audience look notably different to that for any other expensive West End play ? New audience doesn’t necessarily mean lowest income. There are a couple of younger people in my office who have tickets, not normally theatregoers, certainly not Shakespeare, but they are DT fans. Good to get them into a theatre, as they’re the future middle class, middle aged professionals which theatre will need in 20 years. |
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Post by aspieandy on Oct 21, 2024 8:41:37 GMT
Fwiw, when I wrote 'accessible' it was in the context of the production itself, so I guess there are two discussions - this production and seat prices.
Imo, this production is unusully accessible as compared to other productions of the play (I have seen). It's a great way into Shakespeare.
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Post by duncan on Oct 21, 2024 10:06:09 GMT
I'm baffled as to how anyone could make a production that isn't accessible - its a very straightforward play.
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Post by aspieandy on Oct 21, 2024 10:08:38 GMT
I'm baffled that you're baffled. Now what?
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Post by duncan on Oct 21, 2024 12:06:25 GMT
Baffling isn't it!
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