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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2017 18:42:18 GMT
Oh Daniel, please, please say you'll take advantage of a ticket offer for this and see Rylance too. You'll get more out of 90 minutes watching him than you will out of a hundred gaudy Dreamgirls performances... Don't worry love, I still plan on seeing this this before it closes.  Dreamgirls was amazing though, and I don't regret my initial decision at all. |
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Post by Jon on Jan 6, 2017 18:59:35 GMT
Don't worry love, I still plan on seeing this before it closes. Dreamgirls was amazing though, and I don't regret my initial decision at all. I think you should try and see more plays this year, not that there's anything wrong with musicals but I think it's good to shake things up and experiencing different things. I know This House is marmite to some but I thought it was brilliant personally. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2017 19:02:21 GMT
Don't worry love, I still plan on seeing this before it closes. Dreamgirls was amazing though, and I don't regret my initial decision at all. I think you should try and see more plays this year, not that there's anything wrong with musicals but I think it's good to shake things up and experiencing different things. I know This House is marmite to some but I thought it was brilliant personally. I appreciate a play more now than I did. I saw more plays this past year than I ever had, and enjoyed most, if not all of them. And, at the moment, there seems to be more interesting plays than musicals announced at the moment anyway.  |
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Post by galinda on Jan 6, 2017 22:48:20 GMT
Definitely This House, by a mile. Thanks for the replies 👍 |
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Post by jaqs on Jan 7, 2017 16:26:05 GMT
I have a very sore bum from watching this from a cheap table seat.
Wish I had something nicer to say than terrific leg room.
Oh I do like orange so liked the snow suit.
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Post by kathryn on Jan 7, 2017 16:54:49 GMT
Ooh, we were at a table seat for the matinee too! I want to know what idiot decided to screw the seats down at angles to the stage. Seriously, is there anyone who buys a cheap pillar-in-sightline table seat for the sake of having overpriced drinks from the bar at a table? Why not arrange the seats for optimal theatre viewing instead of optimal table use, since that's what people are there for?
Having said that, I did quite enjoy the production. Not an earth-shattering piece of theatre but a pleasant enough whimsical 90 minutes.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2017 23:26:07 GMT
I was at the matinee too - but row G stalls, so perhaps I had a slightly more comfortable viewing experience...
I liked this. Magical, witty, melancholy and - in spite of the frozen setting - warm.
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Post by daniel on Jan 16, 2017 15:46:52 GMT
Cancelled tonight due to illness.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2017 16:39:49 GMT
Oh dear. Jim L was off when I went, but the others were all present and correct. Guess the lurgy has claimed several victims this time!
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Post by daniel on Jan 16, 2017 17:01:57 GMT
There was supposed to be a tweet embedded into my last post, which appears to have disappeared. It is Mark Rylance who is ill.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2017 17:28:03 GMT
Ah what a shame.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2017 17:55:39 GMT
Should have sipped his cod liver oil.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2017 18:16:58 GMT
Seems odd not to have an understudy? (Unless he's off sick too...)
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Post by theatremadness on Jan 16, 2017 18:19:35 GMT
Unless it's a predetermined case of "if Mark Rylance isn't on, there's no show"? Not entirely sure what the draw is without him!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2017 20:52:14 GMT
If only there were more shows that took that attitude, eh?! ;-)
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Post by floorshow on Jan 22, 2017 10:01:28 GMT
Saw the matinee yesterday, 's great until the introduction of the spear hunter but the middle passage did leave me cold. Once there are four onstage it just loses so much impetus. Rylance and Lichtscheidl are loads of fun but just seem a bit sidelined for a bit too long.
Still came out smiling but difficult to recommend as a must-see.
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Post by andrew on Feb 8, 2017 12:07:42 GMT
Might as well add my two cents. I saw this last night. I think my impression was similar to a lot of other opinions given, in that when the two leads were on I enjoyed myself, and as soon as the girl or the spear hunter appeared I just lost interest. There was a particular moment when Mark Rylance reappeared after being off stage for 10 minutes or so, and suddenly the play just kicked off again. Were he not the famous Mark Rylance, I still think he would have stood out as the highlight of the play. He gets laughs with just the way he slows down a sentence, or when he makes a slight noise. He's very much born for the theatre.
The last 5 minutes really sold this for me, I would have felt differently after the curtain call had there not been some acknowledgement of the style of the play or the notion of the audience trying to draw conclusions about what it means, or what had happened. I loved the absurdist trope of characters realising that they're in a play. The pacing of those moments in the play was quite well done I thought.
I must confess that I did not realise there was a puppeteer in this, in my head the small figures were being moved by a Disney-esque animatronic mechanism. Who knew?
Since it finishes earlier than most, I took the opportunity to get a ticket signed by Mark Rylance, who is now holding the joint prize with Ian McKellen as loveliest stage door presence. He even entertained the professional autograph sellers for a few minutes, which is not something I would bother with, were my signature worth more than the paper I write on.
Enjoyed.
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Post by Marwood on Feb 12, 2017 1:26:39 GMT
Saw this tonight, and I'll be generous and say it was...OK but nothing more, I'm glad I got a discounted ticket. Rather than say it was whimsical or poetic, I'd be more inclined to just say it was 'two blokes talking bollocks while fishing in a hole in the ice'. Rylance's Ron was like a Colin Hunt without the laughs after 10 minutes or so, how the plot didn't go Fargoesque and end up with him sleeping with the fishes, God only knows. But I thought the ending was kind of nice and semi-redeemed the previous 90 minutes, there was a nice little speech from Rylance at the end of the show too (his wife was in attendance, sat in a box), only a brief mention of the American President for those that care about those kind of things.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2017 1:42:40 GMT
Saw this tonight, and I'll be generous and say it was...OK but nothing more, I'm glad I got a discounted ticket. Rather than say it was whimsical or poetic, I'd be more inclined to just say it was 'two blokes talking bollocks while fishing in a hole in the ice'. Rylance's Ron was like a Colin Hunt without the laughs after 10 minutes or so, how the plot didn't go Fargoesque and end up with him sleeping with the fishes, God only knows. But I thought the ending was kind of nice and semi-redeemed the previous 90 minutes, there was a nice little speech from Rylance at the end of the show too (his wife was in attendance, sat in a box), only a brief mention of the American President for those that care about those kind of things. Isn't it interesting How they ended up discounting And even papering this play I am sure they had assumed people would be tricked into seeing it by the "name" Certainly just dumping him onstage in such an awful play didn't fool everyone |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2017 10:31:55 GMT
Yes, I think they underestimated the number of vegetarians and vegans in the theatregoing community of the London region.
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Post by Marwood on Feb 13, 2017 16:34:05 GMT
It's a shame it closed Saturday night, I would be quite willing to sell them that quote to put on their posters (and for less for than the price of one of those signed prints they were flogging in the theatre, too).
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2017 17:20:39 GMT
'two blokes talking bollocks while fishing in a hole in the ice' How I wish they had put that as the original synopsis before I forked out on a ticket. With the inclusion of an apostrophe at the end of the second word it becomes an entirely different play. |
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