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Post by Snciole on Dec 18, 2017 19:43:20 GMT
Not irritated at all, I imagine the actors were more annoyed than the audience. The elderly lady later got up and left with her companion to get further medical attention.
I am sorry you were offended, Dani but Hampstead's clientele are elderly (I don't mean Roger Allam elderly), something I suspect the theatre have encouraged as they have disposable income and time. I know lots of elderly people, many too poor and ill to go to the theatre in the first place so don't make assumptions about me because of sensitivity to a comment made in jest.
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Post by Snciole on Dec 18, 2017 19:45:51 GMT
Snciole didn't actually say that she was irritated by the old lady collapsing though. The Hampstead Theatre audience are generally rather elderly to be fair. I love going there. They always do a lovely sausage roll and I always feel like such a spring chicken plus I can get to the bar first with nary a sprint. It's a win win situation all round. And you never know, that woman might have collapsed because she fancied Roger Allam in his wig. I tried that once when I saw 'The Last Five Years' at The Other Palace in the hope that dear Jonny B would jump down off the stage and give me mouth to mouth. I ran back to my seat quicker than Usain Bolt when I saw Samantha Barks galloping up the stairs towards me though, I can tell you. She did bolt up to leave when it was some non-Roger Allam looking young usher checking she was alright so I think you might be on to something... She was all the way in the circle as well so probably much fitter than me who had front row stalls. |
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Post by dani on Dec 18, 2017 20:18:02 GMT
don't make assumptions about me because of sensitivity to a comment made in jest I didn't make an assumption, I made an inference. Anyway it's useful to know that it's okay to make offensive ageist comments round here and then say "just kidding" or "you're being oversensitive". |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2017 21:00:12 GMT
don't make assumptions about me because of sensitivity to a comment made in jest I didn't make an assumption, I made an inference. Anyway it's useful to know that it's okay to make offensive ageist comments round here and then say "just kidding" or "you're being oversensitive". I might even move up to a 'crikey'. |
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Post by profquatermass on Dec 18, 2017 21:32:54 GMT
I like Roger Allam but his agent needs to stop fixing him up with plays at Hampstead as he's done three turkeys in a row there
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Post by showgirl on Dec 19, 2017 5:01:40 GMT
Mr Allam himself does presumably have some say in the matter? Apart from his views on the play offered, he might like the venue or its location or have some other quite prosaic reason for choosing to work there. In fact, wouldn't it be interesting to know generally why some actors accept particular roles?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2017 8:18:56 GMT
Yes and no. It would be interesting when the reason isn't particularly prosaic, but I think it would get depressing after a while hearing "I needed to pay the bills and this is what I was offered". I've heard before now that even well-established actors - the ones who do primarily stage with maybe some television, at least - find that is their reason more often than not.
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Post by Snciole on Dec 19, 2017 9:52:15 GMT
Television doesn't pay as well as it used to so combined with stage not paying as well as it used to it may put actors who are fortunate to keep working in either field reasonably secure.
There is also the possibility that Allam lives local to Hampstead. Don't we all want a nice commute with a short day at the office?
Whilst I didn't hate it as much as some I can't see a lot of people staying beyond the added interval. It is a lovely off-West End play to enjoy with your G&T, I don't think the conflict is there to keep people in their seats.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2017 10:01:52 GMT
I liked it but to sum up Hampstead's audience the play had to be stopped mid way because some elderly woman collapsed. So to the conclude there is a market for soon dead people and young women who fancy Roger Allam, even in that wig. Irritating for you, but presumably deeply upsetting for the elderly lady and her companions, if she had any. Referring to someone who collapsed at the theatre as representative of a group called "soon dead people" shows zero compassion. I don't know if you have elderly relatives, but do try this phrase out on them and see how warmly they respond. This is probably going to sound morbid but now that I am older I realise that we are all “soon dead people”. When I was younger I thought I was invincible but I have had quite a few friends and acquaintances pass away in the last few years and only one was elderly. The rest were under sixty and the youngest was six months old. |
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Post by Snciole on Dec 19, 2017 10:14:38 GMT
Irritating for you, but presumably deeply upsetting for the elderly lady and her companions, if she had any. Referring to someone who collapsed at the theatre as representative of a group called "soon dead people" shows zero compassion. I don't know if you have elderly relatives, but do try this phrase out on them and see how warmly they respond. This is probably going to sound morbid but now that I am older I realise that we are all “soon dead people”. When I was younger I thought I was invincible but I have had quite a few friends and acquaintances pass away in the last few years and only one was elderly. The rest were under sixty and the youngest was six months old. We are all one accident, illness or boring play from death. I am in admiration of these very elderly people having great nights and thinking they are invincible only to collapse in their seat or fall down the horrible Other Palace StairsSomeone I know works in a theatre. His CEO brought his 80 year old mum to their ballet. She had a lovely time and the theatre got the news she had died the following morning. |
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Post by lynette on Dec 19, 2017 13:24:53 GMT
Well, what a way to go. Hamlet for me so watch out....
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Post by lynette on Dec 19, 2017 13:34:37 GMT
Don’t judge me, I was just feeling the lovely arras.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2017 13:43:34 GMT
Well, what a way to go. Hamlet for me so watch out.... I think I'd quite like to go while watching a play too. Talk about upstaging the actors. |
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Post by RedRose on Dec 21, 2017 10:52:53 GMT
Television doesn't pay as well as it used to so combined with stage not paying as well as it used to it may put actors who are fortunate to keep working in either field reasonably secure. There is also the possibility that Allam lives local to Hampstead. Don't we all want a nice commute with a short day at the office? Whilst I didn't hate it as much as some I can't see a lot of people staying beyond the added interval. It is a lovely off-West End play to enjoy with your G&T, I don't think the conflict is there to keep people in their seats. ITV pays rather well for Endeavor - don't think Allam does this transfer for the money. |
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Post by profquatermass on Dec 21, 2017 14:18:18 GMT
He has quite young kids I think. Maybe this is paying their school fees?
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Post by n1david on Jan 19, 2018 1:19:02 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2018 8:21:04 GMT
Maybe big Rog is just the kind of actor who doesn't like to be out of work long? as much as he's a bit 'known' he's always been a 'jobbing actor' type- consistently working and yes with critical acclaim BUT it's hard to shift that mentality of 'take each job it could be your last' when you've lived like that. Or maybe Mrs Allam gets fed up of him underfoot for too long and told him to 'go and do a nice play dear'  And to add to the previous discussion, if you gotta go (and we all gotta go sometime) I can think of worse ways than after a night at the theatre. And for some of us on this board 'leaving' (in the ultimate way) at the interval seems very apt... |
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Post by RedRose on Jan 19, 2018 8:24:19 GMT
Is that to use on the ATG Tickets website? |
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Post by n1david on Jan 19, 2018 8:32:03 GMT
Is that to use on the ATG Tickets website? Yes, sorry, I chopped that bit! The button below takes you to the listing on the ATGTickers website. |
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Post by Mr Snow on Jan 19, 2018 9:20:15 GMT
Not sure if there's a separate thread for offers, or if its worth starting a new one, but happy to share the following.
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Post by Dawnstar on Jan 19, 2018 13:41:34 GMT
And to add to the previous discussion, if you gotta go (and we all gotta go sometime) I can think of worse ways than after a night at the theatre. And for some of us on this board 'leaving' (in the ultimate way) at the interval seems very apt... Oh no, not in the interval, you'd miss Act 2. It would be especially awful if it was a piece you'd never seen before & therefore you'd never find out how it ended! Much better to die just as the curtain calls end. |
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Post by n1david on Jan 19, 2018 13:47:26 GMT
And to add to the previous discussion, if you gotta go (and we all gotta go sometime) I can think of worse ways than after a night at the theatre. And for some of us on this board 'leaving' (in the ultimate way) at the interval seems very apt... Oh no, not in the interval, you'd miss Act 2. It would be especially awful if it was a piece you'd never seen before & therefore you'd never find out how it ended! Much better to die just as the curtain calls end. Probably a topic for a new thread but I'd happily watch Act 1 of Pippin many times but I never want to see Act 2 again... so dying in the interval would be a relief! There must be other plays where leaving early would give one with a better impression than lasting to the end... |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2018 13:48:31 GMT
Depends on what happens after we die. If haunting where you died is an option, no reason to miss out on act 2. You'd have to hope it was a theatre with plenty of turnover though, could be a slightly tedious afterlife if you opted to hang around for the second half of Thriller, thinking you had the option to move along Shaftesbury Avenue as the urge took you, only to discover you're stuck in a two metre radius of your place of death. If I had to pick a theatre to die in, it'd either be the National (for obvious reasons) or the Globe ('cos it'd be quite nice for the Globe to have a ghost). |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2018 13:51:27 GMT
And to add to the previous discussion, if you gotta go (and we all gotta go sometime) I can think of worse ways than after a night at the theatre. And for some of us on this board 'leaving' (in the ultimate way) at the interval seems very apt... Oh no, not in the interval, you'd miss Act 2. It would be especially awful if it was a piece you'd never seen before & therefore you'd never find out how it ended! Much better to die just as the curtain calls end. Oh I quite agree- it's was more a comment on a few of our posters who seem to leave more often at the interval than the end!
@baemax I quite agree at the Nash at least you'd get variety. Though there's also a few Globe regulars who could do with a good haunting.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2018 13:55:55 GMT
@emicardiff, am I a bad person for laughing at that, or am I a bad person for thinking "actually, they're more likely to get to the ghost stage before me"? |
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