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Post by skullion on Mar 1, 2017 19:01:55 GMT
Looking at it, my guess would be some sort of system glitch. When that came up before you could click through and choose from the limited seats available
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Post by showgirl on Mar 1, 2017 23:06:49 GMT
I found the same, having been checking several times per day, for days on end, for possible returns. Given the issues I've had with some sites, I thought perhaps it was Chrome, or something else related to my laptop/OS/browser, etc, but evidently it's not just me. However, that said, I had previously seen tickets available on some dates and searching just now, I did find a single £40 seat for one date, which has happened before, but is more than I wish to pay.
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Post by Latecomer on Mar 3, 2017 22:15:42 GMT
Well I enjoyed this one enormously. Eat before you go...There is much cooking of delicious carbohydrates all of which I could have happily have killed for!
All the cast are excellent and well on top of this at 2nd preview. Allam uncanny as Jenkins. Play a bit heavy on exposition but hey,I lived through it so maybe it needs it!
Audience refused to stop clapping at the end...never seen such a long round of applause.
Glad I caught it...fine from row C of circle. ..go for low numbers in preference to high but most of action central.
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Post by lynette on Mar 3, 2017 22:26:51 GMT
Sounds good. Thanks for that, L
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Post by Mark on Mar 3, 2017 22:42:46 GMT
Sounds good!
In C 6/7 next weekend so sounds like we have decent seats too!
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Post by peggs on Mar 3, 2017 23:12:39 GMT
Was in C7 tonight and pleasantly surprised, it's no front row but better than expected really, you miss some bits when a cast member is faced the other way but you'd get that anywhere but central front. Latecomer has pipped me to the post by mentioning the do eat, I've just had to have cheese on toast, poor alternative to what's on offer on stage. Unfamiliarly with period and what went on but quite clear and for second preview in what is a very word heavy play with a fair bit of stuff to do on stage at time it was pretty sharp. As a zombie newly out of ofsted week at work and with not a lot of sleep had this went down quite well with me and would have been even better if i'd felt more alive I expect.
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Post by showgirl on Mar 4, 2017 5:17:42 GMT
Encouraged by comments so far as I yielded and paid more than I normally would for a return in the preview period. Had hoped OH would try to book Klaxon tix for us both but after 2 Mondays in a row when he failed even to remember to try, and given that dates we can both do are few, I told him he was on his own for this one. I hope he does manage to book as his interest in, and knowledge of politics is vastly superior to mine; I just like a good play but it sounds as though we would both be happy with this one.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2017 6:40:40 GMT
I really wanted to try Klaxon for this, because... Roger Allam. But is anyone able to say what exactly gets cooked onstage? (Sorry to be a wuss, but certain food smells make me queasy and in as small and enclosed a space as the Donmar, it could get pretty uncomfortable for me.) Spoiler tag it if necessary! ;-)
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Post by theatremad on Mar 4, 2017 7:33:38 GMT
There tonight, will endeavour to let you know food wise
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Post by Latecomer on Mar 4, 2017 8:05:21 GMT
Food smells..... {Spoiler - click to view}
Toast, white, yummy.
Fried onions, leeks and bacon bits.
Pasts cooked and drained and then assembled with cheese sauce and onion stiff and baked in oven to make Delia's macaroni cheese! This is baked and then eaten with salad. Hope this helps! |
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Post by Latecomer on Mar 4, 2017 9:04:58 GMT
Odd tickets available at the moment on 7th, 9th, 17th for those who find the website impossible to use! Lol!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2017 10:48:07 GMT
I really wanted to try Klaxon for this, because... Roger Allam. But is anyone able to say what exactly gets cooked onstage? (Sorry to be a wuss, but certain food smells make me queasy and in as small and enclosed a space as the Donmar, it could get pretty uncomfortable for me.) Spoiler tag it if necessary! ;-) You could wear a face mask. |
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Post by showgirl on Mar 4, 2017 23:52:56 GMT
I don't know whether time will clarify my views but at present I'm finding it really hard to know what to make of this - and I'm sure I did nod off at times, so I can only speak for what I did see. It was very well acted but though it could only be, as stated, an imagined version of events, I think it did suffer from exactly that, i.e. being based on truth and therefore allowing limited scope for dramatisation. Looking forward to reading more opinions - and to the critics' reviews.
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Post by jek on Mar 5, 2017 10:05:55 GMT
We really enjoyed this. I was 17 and growing up, actively involved in Labour politics, in nearby Stepney at the time of the events and so remember them quite clearly. So many details rung true. I know that locally we were all slightly in awe of the fact that the very glamorous David and Debbie Owen had made their home in our frankly dingy neck of the woods (this was long before gentrification) and that their children went to the local nursery. And Roger Allam's Roy Jenkins is uncanny. We were all also very aware that another early gentrifier Delia Smith was represented by Debbie Owen for her cookbooks.
I was apprehensive about the play since I had real reservations about Steve Waters' earlier piece 'Temple'. I suspect that part of this was due to the fact that with Temple I was expecting greater depth than could be delivered in a 2 hour play. Limehouse isn't deep - though it certainly prompts thought - but it is good fun and well structured with pointers to Labour's current predicament (I speak as someone still hanging on in after over 35 years as a Labour Party member).
The only seats we could get were front row stalls and I was quite apprehensive about sitting so close to the action. But there is a bit of a physical barrier which meant that it didn't feel intimidating in the way I had feared. Would certainly recommend this to others interested in politics.
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Post by showgirl on Mar 5, 2017 11:19:58 GMT
These are really interesting insights, jek. I was a bit older at the time (well into my twenties), not local and have never been involved in politics at any level, and whilst I vaguely remembering it all happening, I honestly couldn't even have said in which decade it did, never mind which year. I'm sure my OH would make a much more appreciative audience member than I did (not only is he interested in politics, as I've already said, but he has also been active in the Labour Party and another), so I hope he does see it.
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Post by Latecomer on Mar 5, 2017 11:59:35 GMT
I was 17 too and just about to start university!  |
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Post by theatremad on Mar 5, 2017 17:20:54 GMT
Sat in C11 and 12 last night for this, great view. Really loved this show, can't say I understood everything that went on, if it hadn't been for the voice I would never have recognised Roger Allam under his Roy Jenkins make up. Great set, and I hate the end product of the cooking but the prep for it smelt good |
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Post by skullion on Mar 5, 2017 17:33:25 GMT
Just listened to an interview on Radio 4 where it was said that the three surviving members of the Gang of Four have been invited to the press night and are believed to be attending.
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Post by jek on Mar 5, 2017 18:09:43 GMT
Just listened to an interview on Radio 4 where it was said that the three surviving members of the Gang of Four have been invited to the press night and are believed to be attending. I heard this too and immediately felt for the actors portraying the surviving members. Bet Roger Allam is pleased not to have to worry about Roy Jenkins turning up! |
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Post by showgirl on Mar 5, 2017 18:19:53 GMT
It must surely work both ways? I know people in the public eye must be used to biting lips, biding their time, etc, but imagine if you were the real person, watching a fictional portrayal of a key period from your past, and you disliked or disagreed with the playwright's interpretation? However strongly you felt, you would have to sit there silently and would be expected to applaud at the end. And this play has no interval so even if you were really outraged, you couldn't leave unless you walked out in mid-performance.
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Post by profquatermass on Mar 6, 2017 12:50:22 GMT
My first Klaxon experience. Only remembered at 12.30 - 15th in the queue and there were still a few tickets on the only day I could go. Hurrah!
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Post by sondheimhats on Mar 6, 2017 17:41:54 GMT
Still some scattered tix available for those looking! Just picked myself up a £10 seat in the Circle. I'll be seeing it the same day that I see Hamlet at the Almeida. Should be an interesting day...
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Post by theatrelover123 on Mar 6, 2017 18:50:57 GMT
3 dates currently with available tickets at most prices. Most of the stalls available for Wed 15th March it seems
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Post by profquatermass on Mar 6, 2017 21:25:06 GMT
My first Klaxon experience. Only remembered at 12.30 - 15th in the queue and there were still a few tickets on the only day I could go. Hurrah! Or indeed 150th in the queue. Would definitely do it again |
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Post by joem on Mar 6, 2017 22:09:17 GMT
I really find this experiment in virtual crowd control distasteful and, behind the egalitarian statements of intent, just a way to show us who is boss.
Having said that, I got a couple of crap tickets for March 25th, but to be honest I am not fussy when I really want to see something.
Anyway, Soylent Green is people.
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