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Post by Rory on Apr 21, 2018 9:46:32 GMT
Lucy Cohu and Amanda Drew now announced to join the cast.
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Post by bordeaux on Apr 21, 2018 11:00:50 GMT
Just been looking at the Theatre Royal Website for this where it's playing before the West End. Top price tickets £47.25. They do offer reductions to OAPs, children and the unwaged, though, of £1.00.
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Post by lynette on Jul 5, 2018 16:04:07 GMT
Just received an email for this, offering to upgrade from middle price to top price etc. I don’t think I can manage to go anyway but when I look at the actual top price which is £95 I wonder who is kidding who? So I’m assuming this is a reduction in light of 1. The weather 2. The football 3. Somebody realised what a stupidly high price it was.
Having said all that, will I be missing much. Anyone in the know?
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Post by lou105 on Jul 5, 2018 16:09:00 GMT
This is an Early Bird offer, for performances in October, so not really to do with current preoccupations!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2018 16:22:13 GMT
Love the writer - The Father was brilliant - but the prices for plays are ridiculous. Have a look at the Delfont/Macintosh website and see how Red & Imperium are doing at the moment.
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Post by learfan on Jul 5, 2018 17:26:23 GMT
I booked for matinee on final day, 1 Dec.£12.50 absolute bargain! Will book for The Son at the Tricycle (sorry the new name is stupid) when booking opens in September.
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Post by theatrelover123 on Jul 5, 2018 17:32:48 GMT
I booked for matinee on final day, 1 Dec.£12.50 absolute bargain! Will book for The Son at the Tricycle (sorry the new name is stupid) when booking opens in September. How did you get a ticket for £12.50? Where are they please? |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2018 17:38:16 GMT
Love the writer - The Father was brilliant - but the prices for plays are ridiculous. Have a look at the Delfont/Macintosh website and see how Red & Imperium are doing at the moment. This one does star a couple of bona fide theatre grandees though. |
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Post by showgirl on Jul 5, 2018 19:04:47 GMT
I booked for matinee on final day, 1 Dec.£12.50 absolute bargain! Will book for The Son at the Tricycle (sorry the new name is stupid) when booking opens in September. How did you get a ticket for £12.50? Where are they please? I too would love to know this, please - checked a few dates and can't find tix at £12.50 on any date. If it was in a Delmac email, I do wish they'd send them to everyone who has booked with them! |
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Post by learfan on Jul 5, 2018 20:16:13 GMT
Row A in Grand Circle, i got it at the box office a few weeks ago.
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Post by showgirl on Jul 6, 2018 3:36:42 GMT
Ah, thank you. I will bide my time, then, as I'd rather sit in the stalls or dress circle and take my time choosing online.
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Post by crowblack on Oct 5, 2018 10:10:46 GMT
I've got a cheap row A grand circle seat for Saturday evening I can't make it for, if anyone's interested. Please let me know today because I'll be travelling so won't be able to phone the box office to transfer the ticket tomorrow.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2018 11:09:49 GMT
Well. This left me a little cold I'm afraid. There's a LOT of "Oh look at me, I'm ACTING darling!" going on except from Lucy Cohu and Dame Eileen Atkins who I thought were just lovely. Eileen was probably too distracted by having to peel bags full of mushrooms throughout the play to do anything else I suppose. Does anyone still peel mushrooms? I'll drink to that. She was rather heavy handed with chopping an onion too. I don't think she had a very sharp knife.
Everyone got a bit caught out by the end of the last but one scene which resulted in a round of applause as I think people perhaps thought it had ended. Or wished that it had. Or perhaps they were simply showing their appreciation for James Hillier's sterling work at stomping around in the background chomping on an apple, I couldn't quite tell.
It's quite similar to his other plays with the same scenes being repeated but I just didn't really care a fig for any of the characters. I'd have disinherited those daughters for a start.
And someone needed to have cleaned those windows. They were filthy.
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Post by peggs on Oct 5, 2018 14:11:23 GMT
Oh @ryan I do love your posts, just needed that this afternoon, I'm sure that review is far more entertaining than actually watching it.
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Post by dani on Oct 10, 2018 10:08:37 GMT
There are some very positive reviews for this today. A friend suggested going, but then mentioned that the seats she liked were £104 each. I would rarely pay even half that.
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Post by stefy69 on Nov 1, 2018 7:07:58 GMT
Saw this yesterday and loved it ! Jonathan Pryce : what an incredible actor he is.
I would thoroughly recommend this ( if of course you can get a ticket ! )
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Post by Rory on Nov 1, 2018 17:10:32 GMT
^Sadly, ticket availability (£10 off weekdays) isn't an issue. Although it looked almost sold out when I checked a few dates on the DMT website. |
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Post by TallPaul on Nov 1, 2018 17:14:20 GMT
I received my 'special offer' email from DMT just this morning.
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Post by TallPaul on Nov 2, 2018 13:25:13 GMT
And there was me thinking I'd been personally chosen to receive special treatment, as a close friend of Sir Cameron. ☹
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Post by tommy on Nov 2, 2018 20:07:57 GMT
Saw this yesterday and loved it ! Jonathan Pryce : what an incredible actor he is. I would thoroughly recommend this ( if of course you can get a ticket ! ) Looking forward to see this tomorrow afternoon! |
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Post by sherriebythesea on Nov 7, 2018 10:21:22 GMT
I saw this last night and the two leads were incredible. It took me a bit to figure out where they were in story but such a thrill to be able to see Jonathan Pryce and Eileen Atkins do their thing
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Post by mallardo on Nov 7, 2018 15:23:32 GMT
I saw this last night and the two leads were incredible. It took me a bit to figure out where they were in story but such a thrill to be able to see Jonathan Pryce and Eileen Atkins do their thing Yes, it does take a bit of an effort to sort out what is going on in this - which is always the case with a Florian Zeller play. But because Zeller is such a master of structure things clarify at exactly the moment of maximum impact. In this one we have a death in the family but we don't know who because all of them are still there interacting with each other and one of them is undergoing the onset of dementia. The focus keeps shifting until it arrives at a poignant and masterful final scene which is so quietly devastating because we are now, at last, confronted with the truth.
It's a great cast, for sure, but the play is worthy of them.
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Post by tommy on Nov 11, 2018 20:49:15 GMT
I agree with the amazing performance of Jonathan Pryce - what an actor compared to other often different roles he created, and some of the other actors not in the least Dame Atkins, but I also agree that the very beginning of the play was less impressive, but wonderful how it all worked out later on. I was lucky to have seen this.
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Post by joem on Nov 12, 2018 20:18:45 GMT
Does anyone have experience of the boxes at the Wyndham? Specifically, one of the Royal Circle boxes is described as "slightly restricted view" and the other is "side view". Not sure which would be the better option.
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Post by orchidman on Nov 23, 2018 1:48:21 GMT
I preferred this to The Father, which I felt didn't really have anywhere to go past the halfway mark, but I find it weird that the same playwright would cover such similar ground in such short order.
This felt like it was a couple of rewrites away from fulfilling its potential, a shame because it was very promising.
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