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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2016 15:17:04 GMT
The aisle is full of noises.
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Post by Polly1 on Nov 28, 2016 16:08:11 GMT
The aisle is full of noises. Oh, very good, HG  jeanhunt, I agree with Lynette, aisle seats are not great at the Barbican. A while ago there were still some central £10-ers for 2nd Aug when Im going with some friends - come and join us! |
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Post by zahidf on Nov 28, 2016 17:19:02 GMT
I got some £10.00 stall seats for this. remarkably simple!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2016 20:19:39 GMT
The aisle is full of noises. Oh, very good, HG jeanhunt, I agree with Lynette, aisle seats are not great at the Barbican. A while ago there were still some central £10-ers for 2nd Aug when Im going with some friends - come and join us! Aw, that's kind Polly1 but alas, I suffer with panic attacks that are triggered when I'm hemmed in by people, so sitting further in than one seat off the aisle is impossible for me. I wondered if they might do the aisle ones as day seats or something, which would be annoying. Ah well - might just make do with the cinema viewing instead and save some cash! |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2016 20:27:19 GMT
The Barbican box office are pretty helpful so you could try giving them a call to ask?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2016 20:57:15 GMT
The Barbican box office are pretty helpful so you could try giving them a call to ask? Could do. I usually just try to book online, because whenever I speak to a human about it they generally think I'm completely mental. Which possibly I am ;-) By the way, did anyone manage to outfox the RSI-inducing 'generate a date' system on the Barbican website? I was looking desperately for a 'view dates as calendar' setting but couldn't see one, so I ended up just having to view a date, then click out of it, then click that darn 'see more dates' button every flippin' time I needed to view a day beyond about 7 July. Compared to that, come back new NT site, all is forgiven!! The RSC site wasn't much better - 'hey, why don't you scroll through our exceptionally long list of Stratford AND London dates, which for some reason we've chosen to mash up into a tiny scrolling window at the top of a huge web page... You don't want to do that? OK, set preferences at the top for matinees and London dates only. The system will only remember the setting for one clickthrough, but never mind eh?' |
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Post by danielwhit on Dec 20, 2016 17:14:18 GMT
Went this afternoon - surprised myself at how much I enjoyed it. I always find the plot for this surprisingly complicated to get the intricacies, however beyond that the production values were superb.
Projections worked well for me, you could tell they've put a lot of effort into the concepts. The backdrop and floor had some lovely effects on them too.
I enjoyed all performances, agree with the 'young Colin Baker' point, and thought Mark Quartley's Ariel was the standout - projection effects or no projection effects.
I may well revisit in the cinema, as my front row seat probably wasn't the best to fully appreciate the scale of things at times.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2016 17:25:50 GMT
The Tempest has a plot?  |
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Post by danielwhit on Dec 21, 2016 10:14:37 GMT
The Tempest has a plot? Well, give or take.. |
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Post by crabtree on Dec 23, 2016 1:35:26 GMT
Absolutely loved The tempest tonight - gorgeously lit, but the famed motion capture characters added nothing and were clumsy next to the real actors. Totally unnecessary but the floor lighting exquisite. Nothing however matched the final two minutes of Prospero, stood in a cold circle of light, having dismissed a confused Ariel, and turning to the audience for that great last speech. No frills, no gimmick, just great acting and Shakespeare and theatre. So moving, especially just having watched Ariel almost making a sudden plea not to be released. Cut the gimmicky, clumsy motion capture and the bad animation, and there's a very special show there. The practical and old, old trick of disappearing food from the banquet got morer response than the awkward motion capture.
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Post by lynette on Dec 24, 2016 18:46:58 GMT
To echo Crabtree I absolutely loved The Tempest this afternoon. Second time and loved it even more. I think the techie stuff worked. It was comparable to what I suppose would have been in the original, a full on all effects 'show' but I do agree that the actual acting is what makes it shine. SRB on top form and everyone else matching him. I don't usually get 'emotional' at the end of this play but this time I did.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2016 23:12:27 GMT
I saw this on my last trip to the UK in early December and agree that the acting was the reason it was such an excellent emotionally charged show. SRB pulled all the stops out for the final part and did indeed tug at my emotions. The effects worked for me but only as a part of the excellent floor lighting and backdrop imagery. As a whole it was an impressive collaboration between Intel and the actors.
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Post by ncbears on Feb 2, 2017 17:32:18 GMT
I see this will be screened on 7 February, again. How was the cinema broadcast? It's coming to the States in March - although not yet close to my locale.
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Post by Jan on Feb 2, 2017 18:50:55 GMT
Seems odd there is such a big gap before the Barbican opening.
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Post by lou105 on Feb 2, 2017 19:13:12 GMT
I see this will be screened on 7 February, again. How was the cinema broadcast? It's coming to the States in March - although not yet close to my locale. I didn't think the storm scene came across very well, but after that it was fine. I suspect the effects in general don't work quite as well on the screen, but the performances are worth seeing anyway! I loved Joe Dixon as Caliban. |
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Post by bee on Jul 9, 2017 7:40:43 GMT
I saw this at The Barbican yesterday. It's a very enjoyable production. SRB is excellent, especially the very moving final speech, and I also thought Daniel Easton and Jenny Rainsford were funny and rather sweet as Ferdinand and Miranda. As most people have said, the motion capture effects don't really add much, but some of the other visual stuff is good. I was actually pleased to have an upper circle seat as I think I got the full benefit of the floor lighting effects from there.
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jul 10, 2017 18:54:25 GMT
Seems odd there is such a big gap before the Barbican opening. To give SRB enough time to turn down another knighthood I heard |
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Post by vabbian on Jul 18, 2017 22:43:26 GMT
Saw this tonight. 3/5
Was impressed with the special effects, they have made good use of the Barbican stage.
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Post by wickedgrin on Jul 19, 2017 15:50:52 GMT
I thought it was fabulously staged beginning with a great shipwreck/storm/tempest scene. Superb lighting and projections and fascinating avatar computer work. Some scenes were truly beautiful to behold. It is a testament to the cast that they were not upstaged by the staging.
Edit - the Barbican is in an awful location to get to.....
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Post by peggs on Jul 22, 2017 21:24:24 GMT
Noooooo where were you this time theatremonkey I'm starting to think you don't look like your profile pic at all.
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Post by crabtree on Jul 22, 2017 22:00:13 GMT
yep the special effects are the least special thing about this production. The real special thing is SRB standing alone in a spot releasing the audience at the end. Beautiful and emotional and perfect and real.
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Post by Backdrifter on Jul 22, 2017 22:28:16 GMT
I'm aiming to try for dayseats for this. Whatever shortcomings it might have I'm sure £10 will be worth it for the good stuff.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2017 7:16:39 GMT
Well. Someone has been hard at work on their projector slides with this one. You can't even see it when they change the sheet over and have to adjust the focus. And no-one was tempted to make shadow hand puppet animals to fill in the gaps either. I was most impressed.
It's a jolly old tale really and the evening fairly zips by and doesn't outstay its welcome. The huge set is really rather wonderful as the hull of this great ship (it's like being set in the depths of the Vasa ship) and the cast are terrific. SRB is marvellous and he just has such a wonderful voice, he sounds like he speaks Shakespeare verse in his normal everyday life it's so natural. Simon Trinder as Trinculo (with more than a hint of Reece Shearsmith as Mr Jelly in Psychoville), Joe Dixon as Caliban and James Hayes as Stephano make a great trio of comedy characters and Tom Turner is delightfully villain-esque as Sexy Sebastian. Daniel Easton is also a really lovely Ferdinand and the old gag where he is struggling with a heavy log and Miranda just picks it up easily is always funny. There's some really lovely singing going on and a nice jig to pep things up for those who like that sort of thing.
I do wonder why, if stories are to be believed, SRB turned down a knighthood when he's accepted a CBE. He would so suit being Sir SRB.
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Post by argon on Jul 23, 2017 8:26:08 GMT
Yes great for the bells & whistles in this production but SRB performance although extremely good was slightly Learish.
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Post by Backdrifter on Jul 23, 2017 10:13:49 GMT
Yes great for the bells & whistles in this production but SRB performance although extremely good was slightly Learish. Do you mean like his shouty NT Lear? |
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