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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jul 28, 2017 14:21:09 GMT
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Post by mallardo on Jul 28, 2017 18:16:00 GMT
It's a bizarre play. I saw a fascinating production of it at the Lyric Hammersmith a few years ago starring a wonderful Denise Gough as Abbie.
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Post by martin1965 on Jul 28, 2017 19:14:32 GMT
I saw that production too, very tense claustrophobic production. Wont be going to Sheffield.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2017 12:08:03 GMT
Sheffield's my local, so I'm going. I don't know O'Neill's work at all, so I'm looking forward to it. At the season launch earlier this year, Robert Hastie was really enthusiastic about this one.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2017 13:18:40 GMT
The title sounds like a Mills and Boon novel.
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Post by QueerTheatre on Jul 29, 2017 19:07:16 GMT
Theo Ogundipe is FANTASTIC.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Sept 16, 2017 21:02:00 GMT
Strange thing going on with the ticket availability for this. The rear seats of the Crucible auditorium appear to be unavailable apart from odd pairs. Anyone know what's going on?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2017 9:31:57 GMT
Last time I was in the Crucible for Julius Caesar, they'd curtained the back rows off and not put them on sale. I don't know whether they were trying to look more sold out? I'm not thrilled with how they seem to be developing things under the new AD recently. I'm a member and in the last few years there were loads of things I wanted to see, I was over there all the time. But in the last year there seem to have been far fewer productions running for longer, and the prices have gone up too. Plus I'm massively unexcited about this year's Christmas musical. Oh, AND my member discount no longer covers all price bands or all shows, which is making membership far less useful.
I've just remembered as well, for JC they made a sort of walled walkway thing about 2/3 of the way up the seating rows, so the cast could run around up there and use the space. I think they must have blocked off two rows of seats. The tickets on sale for DutE look like they may have kept that perhaps, and then not sold any seats behind that space, apart from the wheelchair spaces. The grey ones near the doors in K and the ones in J are the wheelchair and easy access spaces I believe.
I wonder whether they think they'll sell fewer tickets and so want to concentrate everyone near the front instead of having everyone scattered around the theatre. Seems a shame if so - a couple of years ago things used to sell out regularly.
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Post by TallPaul on Sept 18, 2017 12:34:45 GMT
I can't add anything about ticket availability, but I do have breaking news on the 'set'. Logs and aggregate!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2017 21:34:56 GMT
Well. I went tonight & can report it eas 3/4 empty hence the lack of availability - they're concentrating the audience at the front and low sides.
I'm sorry, I'm sure it's all very worthy and good, but I hated it and left at the interval. The set is beautiful and there were many really gorgeous visuals but the plot is nonsense, the accents are atrociously all over the place and in many cases hard to understand. The new wife was bizarre - kept waving her arms around and shouting. There was zero chemistry between her and Eben, so when they started ripping each others clothes off it felt very odd. Matthew Kelly was the only one with a consistent and intelligible accent, and I didn't mind listening to his bits, but the rest made me check my watch repeatedly. Shame, because I really wanted to like this and it's had rave reviews. I read thr synopsis of the second half and it sounded ridiculous.
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