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Post by Mr Crummles on Mar 30, 2017 14:14:35 GMT
I thought this was a really moving production, with a Hamlet as I always imagined him to be: a clever, sharp, sensitive young man, full of energy, dynamic, but distracted and edgy. His pain and distress keep pushing him to the limit of his endurance. He seems to be on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
I particularly liked the way his soliloquies are delivered. He talks directly to the audience, sharing the tumultuous feelings shaking his soul. When he discusses suicide, we can feel how almost unbearable his pain is.
Along the play he hugs many of the characters, starting with the ghost of his father, in a scene I found to be particularly touching. It felt to me that in his helplessness, in his sense of being lost, he needed to physically connect with people and with the world around him.
I thought the whole cast was excellent.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2017 14:33:41 GMT
Almeida says priority booking to members on midnught April 1.. Does that mean the night from Friday to Saturday? Just a tiny bit confusing.. Never came across a theatre ticket booking that starts at midnight before.. It's Saturday to Sunday ... |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2017 14:46:22 GMT
This is why some places do things at 0:01, "a minute after midnight" is far less ambiguous than "midnight on the dot".
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2017 14:48:33 GMT
Tsk. That would never have happened if Nana Mouskouri was in charge of the Almeida.
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Post by alnoor on Mar 30, 2017 19:22:45 GMT
Juliet Stevenson is in the show until Saturday 1 July, as per Almeida's website
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Post by rumbledoll on Mar 30, 2017 20:17:18 GMT
Thank you, xanderl!
Pity Juliet Stevenson will go before I can possibly catch the show. She's a marvel.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2017 15:17:24 GMT
Another route to priority booking ...
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Post by rumbledoll on Mar 31, 2017 16:36:17 GMT
Too many routes to priority booking means that no one will care when it goes public.. what's the point?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2017 18:53:11 GMT
Staggers it, dunnit. Almeida friends at midnight, Sonia Friedman mailing listers twelve hours later, random priority after another twenty six hours, etc. They're clearly hoping to spread it out a bit rather than let everybody all descend on the website at once. Better to have "sold out the day public booking opened" headlines than "fans enraged by sh*tty website" ones.
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Post by theatrelover123 on Mar 31, 2017 19:27:45 GMT
I have guttingly had to return a ticket for tomorrow's matinee. It's seat C21 in the Circle and it was £30. I don't think they will put it back online tonight but hopefully it will be for sale on the phone tomorrow morning so worth calling the BO and asking for that seat which has been returned.
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Post by Jan on Mar 31, 2017 19:54:09 GMT
If you loved this HG you'd also have loved his Oresteia. Never mind. I missed Summerfolk.  You missed Summerfolk ? You kept that quiet. It was brilliant. Of course I had tickets for and missed the Grandage Othello, Branagh Hamlet, Simon Russell-Beale R-III but I expect they were rubbish. On your previous comment about audibility, I assumed they were speaking g quietly in parts to draw the audience in, I mean the gravedigger was practically whispering and I could hardly hear although I was quite close. |
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Mar 31, 2017 20:46:56 GMT
I can't help but wonder if they will mic the actors on Broadway. The acting is all so understated, especially Scott. Many of his soliloquies were very quiet. It was fine I never the Almeida, but I wonder if it will carry in the Pinter without amplification. Going to Broadway?? |
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Post by sondheimhats on Mar 31, 2017 21:14:24 GMT
I can't help but wonder if they will mic the actors on Broadway. The acting is all so understated, especially Scott. Many of his soliloquies were very quiet. It was fine I never the Almeida, but I wonder if it will carry in the Pinter without amplification. Going to Broadway?? No, sorry. I made another post earlier in the thread correcting that mistake. I meant West End. I'm American - just a force of habit to say "Broadway" |
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Post by vickster51 on Apr 1, 2017 23:24:27 GMT
Well booking for the west end is a nightmare. Website won't let me checkout due to no standard delivery method available and says to contact box office. It's 12:30 for god's sake. Rubbish.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2017 23:39:23 GMT
Well booking for the west end is a nightmare. Website won't let me checkout due to no standard delivery method available and says to contact box office. It's 12:30 for god's sake. Rubbish. I'm having the same problem :-(. Stayed up for nothing...nearly 2am here. Guess noone will fix this issue until Monday. |
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Post by vickster51 on Apr 1, 2017 23:48:37 GMT
I see one person on twitter is saying she has booked, which I don't understand when everyone else is saying they can't!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2017 23:51:57 GMT
Maybe that person is a member of the theatre itself or ATG? Have a suspicion that it's the Almeida members who are having trouble booking...
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Post by n1david on Apr 1, 2017 23:52:05 GMT
Well booking for the west end is a nightmare. Website won't let me checkout due to no standard delivery method available and says to contact box office. It's 12:30 for god's sake. Rubbish. Having exactly the same issue here. It also looks like only a handful of stalls seats are being made available for each show at this stage - presumably they will add more seats for each release, but there aren't that many seats available for booking, even if it was possible to check out... |
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Post by sherriebythesea on Apr 2, 2017 2:07:07 GMT
How much are the tickets going for?
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Post by bellboard27 on Apr 2, 2017 5:39:47 GMT
How much are the tickets going for? Seem to range from £15 (balcony) & £20 in stalls up to £95 for premium tickets for previews & £5 more for each category once it has opened. On the ATG site booking is working normally for members & most of the seats are on sale. The exception is the first few rows (possibly cos stage might extend? Day seats? Lottery?, etc). |
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Post by moelhywel on Apr 2, 2017 7:59:44 GMT
I tried booking via the Almeida priority and found the range of seats on offer so limited that I decided not to bother as they were either too expensive or too restricted so I gave up. I then suddenly remembered that ATG priority also opened at the same time and found a much better selection of seats where I managed to get the seat I wanted.
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Post by rumbledoll on Apr 2, 2017 8:34:05 GMT
Any info about 30 pound tickets (300 for each show as they say) scheme? Are these gonna be sold later during the ran?
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Post by bellboard27 on Apr 2, 2017 8:44:48 GMT
No news on the £30 seats. In my earlier post I said the bottom price was £15 for previews. Sorry, this is for after opening. It is £10 for previews.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2017 8:48:39 GMT
The quote about £30 tickets was -
" I’m so happy that we are able to offer 300 tickets for under £30 to every performance in the West End run to allow everybody a chance to see the play.”
so I presume this refers to all of the lower price seats currently on sale, and also any day seats (if that's happening), rather than a release of 300 £30 seats later on.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2017 10:42:50 GMT
Almeida have tweeted that a problem preventing members booking online has been fixed - so if this affects you, you've got 20 minutes before the Sonia Friedman list priority booking starts!
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