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Post by Phantom of London on Apr 8, 2016 12:32:27 GMT
Oh well tried dead on 1pm for a ticket.
Got the drop down for the front row on the date I wanted, tried to put this in my shopping basket and when looked in said basket, it was empty. All tickets sold out in 2 minutes. This is a hot ticket.
Wouldn't be surprised if this extended, played one of the bigger National theatres or transferred to the West End.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2016 12:42:57 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2016 13:04:24 GMT
Oh well tried dead on 1pm for a ticket. Got the drop down for the front row on the date I wanted, tried to put this in my shopping basket and when looked in said basket, it was empty. All tickets sold out in 2 minutes. This is a hot ticket. Wouldn't be surprised if this extended, played one of the bigger National theatres or transferred to the West End. I think that's unlikely, it needs a small, intiimate space to match the naturalism. In the US it famously infuriated some who expected something more traditionally 'real' (i.e not real at all but a construct for the stage). "whose three-hour length and periods of long silence have infuriated some audience members." "has prompted threats of subscription cancellations by some people walking out at intermission."
As the Playwright's Horizon director stated in response.
"I have to admit I was not totally prepared for it to be such a polarizing show. I love Annie’s work and thought this was just the play to introduce her to a wider audience. Here are three characters rarely portrayed on the stage these days and Annie imbues them with such humanity and integrity."
A little naive, there are always some who will complain about anything that is outside their understanding.
The one thing you can guarantee is that there will also be a number of people going on about it being 'boring', 'nothing happens' and so on here. artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/25/the-flick-prompts-an-explanation-from-playwrights-horizons/www.steppenwolf.org/watchlisten/program-articles/article.aspx?id=378 |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2016 13:20:43 GMT
Yep. I really liked this play in New York, but I'm expecting a serious blowback when UK audiences finally get to see it. Not from everyone, obviously, but this thread is going to get BUSY with the discussion.  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2016 13:27:29 GMT
How high's the stage?
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Post by Phantom of London on Apr 8, 2016 15:17:10 GMT
Thanks,
Still cannot fathom why this has became a hit, it isn't star driven and a little known show, I hadn't heard of it, until it came to the National. I would have thought that the excellent Motherf***er With The Hat, would've this kind of box office, but althought it was excellent, it was an hard sell.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2016 16:00:48 GMT
Only 43 performances scheduled in a theatre "which can hold up to 450 people".
So, fewer than 20,000 tickets for the entire run.
So, it sells out if 20,000 people want to see it, who might fill a West End theatre in three weeks.
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Post by partytentdown on Apr 14, 2016 14:45:35 GMT
A few tickets released for tonight on the website.
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Post by foxa on Apr 14, 2016 14:45:57 GMT
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Post by partytentdown on Apr 15, 2016 11:30:49 GMT
Hi there, I have a ticket I need to sell for this on 10 May, 7pm, £45, Row D of the pit.
I saw it last night from the same row (had to reschedule as I can't make the date above) and the view is fantastic, as is the show.
Let me know if you're interested!
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Post by Phantom of London on Apr 15, 2016 20:09:58 GMT
If no one wants your ticket, can you not return them to the National?
More tickets are on sale, managed to bag one for tomorrow night.
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Post by Phantom of London on Apr 16, 2016 23:11:21 GMT
Just came back from this, it came in at 3 hours 15 minutes and I felt very single minute of this. What this really resulted in was 2 people cleaning a cinema after each screening and their conversations and a co-workers fear that the clumpy cinema, which could have been an Soho porn palace, where thee is more than popcorn on the floor, that his place might god forbid go into digital projection.
This play may give you the shortest role in the whole of theatre, it also asked more questions than it gave answers, such as;
Why did Rose perform a random sexual act on Avery?
Why didn't Avery recipicae the advance?
How far on the autistic spectrum is Avery?
Still dumbfounded why this is a sell out, just proves you cannot second guess theatre with what will and what will not sell. Even so this could transfer into a bigger theatre or go down the route of the Effect, which I mean sell out, then close, not to be seen again. (Preferable).
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2016 23:38:40 GMT
LOVED this
Tender funny and 3 wonderfully portrayed characters
The acting is top notch
However
One of the actors (in fact the best of the 3) has a speech impediment which seems to be due a cleft palate repair from what I could see
This did make his speech difficult to comprehend at first but after a while became part of his charactersation for me
I am glowing after seeing this
Sitting smiling at home
Along with Ma Rainey and Les Blancs the NT has the 3 best plays in London at the moment
One in each auditorium
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Post by showgirl on Apr 17, 2016 4:25:56 GMT
From your description of the (in)action + low-key subject matter, Phantom, this sounds very like Beyond Caring which ran in the NT Shed (as it was called then) last year - but that was mercifully shorter and even if the two are actually very different, I'm not ready for anything remotely similar yet.
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Post by Phantom of London on Apr 17, 2016 13:09:50 GMT
Was we at the same performance Parsley? (Saturday Evening) incidentally I also saw ales Blancs in the afternoon.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2016 14:16:08 GMT
Yes I was
Wearing blue and white patterned jumper
I was in the stalls row D
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Post by Phantom of London on Apr 17, 2016 14:41:01 GMT
I was just a tad in front of you in row B, in a grey t shirt shame our paths didn't cross.
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Post by finalperformance on Apr 17, 2016 15:34:31 GMT
Checking the site daily in search of two 15£ seats. I will head over to the National on a day that has matinee and evening for the day seats.
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Post by Snciole on Apr 18, 2016 18:10:01 GMT
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Post by foxa on Apr 18, 2016 18:55:39 GMT
I just listened to an interesting interview with the director, Sam Gold on Front Row, BBC. It will be available shortly on the BBC iplayer: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0770qm6 |
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Post by Phantom of London on Apr 19, 2016 20:31:44 GMT
Lots of tickets now on sale, for various dates. I would get in the quick if you want to see this.
Just goes to prove, when does the National really sell out?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2016 20:36:09 GMT
Lots of empty seats at tonight's performance. Even more after the interval, I imagine; mine included.
It's an hour and forty minutes I'm never getting back, and that was just the first act.
It's just so dull. Nothing happens!
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Post by theatreliker on Apr 19, 2016 21:01:12 GMT
It's annoying that so many more tickets have gone on sale now and so cheaply in some cases. I looked to book when it first went on sale. Not being from London, I often rely on train journeys to see matinees. Train tickets are dear and it helps to book in advance. Did they have a reason to hold back tickets or did they say they were sold out to create the hype of a sell out?
I'll perhaps read the play instead if I can't see it. It might be quicker.
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Post by perfectspy on Apr 19, 2016 22:01:58 GMT
I just booked a ticket for a Saturday evening, thanks for the tip off but I don't get why the National held them back.
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Post by Snciole on Apr 20, 2016 11:28:07 GMT
It is rather outrageous, isn't it? How many booked £45+ seats because they thought they would have no other option. All this suspicion about how and why it was such a must see has suddenly been solved. It wasn't, the NT just wanted people to think it was.
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