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Post by learfan on Nov 23, 2018 18:11:32 GMT
You lucky lot with your flexible friends. I have wait til payday next Friday.
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Post by showgirl on Nov 23, 2018 18:58:20 GMT
I phoned! Three Sisters in May. I asked if they were gonna do it funny like, Three Brothers... she laughed rather nervously I thought. Well according to the blurb on the website, there IS a modern section. So your "wish" may come true, lynette... |
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Post by lynette on Nov 23, 2018 21:52:26 GMT
Noooooo!
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Post by showgirl on Nov 24, 2018 4:49:41 GMT
Did you look before you booked, Lynette? I'd already checked, & decided nothing appealed to me, back when the season was announced, but as that was a while ago I'd forgotten all about it until people here posted about actually booking.
I haven't changed my mind but will see what early posters say about Three Sisters when the time comes. Likewise with Terry Johnson's version of Uncle Vanya at Hampstead, which starts previewing next Friday & is potentially more appealing to me - plus I much prefer Hampstead to the Almeida.
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Post by lynette on Nov 24, 2018 8:44:45 GMT
I’ve waiting for a Three Sisters. It hasn’t been on for a while and it is one of my favourites. It provides excellent roles for women. I’m hoping they don’t mess with it too much. It is already 'relevant' about the position of women and also, unusually , unfulfilled men. So right on the money.
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Post by Jan on Nov 24, 2018 10:19:32 GMT
I’ve waiting for a Three Sisters. It hasn’t been on for a while and it is one of my favourites. It provides excellent roles for women. I’m hoping they don’t mess with it too much. It is already 'relevant' about the position of women and also, unusually , unfulfilled men. So right on the money. There was a reasonable production at the Union Theatre last year. Before that the truly appalling Southwark Playhouse hatchet job where it was relocated to Dubai with references to suicide bombers not in the original. And before that in 2012 the excellent Young Vic production with Vanessa Kirby (which several here didn’t like at all). |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2018 10:21:33 GMT
The Southwark one was the one where they kept going on about how hard it was to get to Moscow despite the fact they all had iPads so could have used Expedia
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2018 10:32:12 GMT
I wasn't going to book anything but then I saw Fisayo Akinade was in 'Shipwreck' and caved. He's really smashing and has pretty much stolen every play I've seen him in recently.
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Post by zahidf on Nov 24, 2018 11:27:38 GMT
Patsy Ferran and Rebecca Frecknall sold "Three Sisters" to me. "Shipwreck" I just didn't feel like seeing. Ditto I'm three sisters. I got a cheap ticket for shipwreck, I'll write it off if reviews are terrible |
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Post by Someone in a tree on Nov 24, 2018 15:47:11 GMT
Patsy Ferran and Rebecca Frecknall sold "Three Sisters" to me. "Shipwreck" I just didn't feel like seeing. Ditto I'm three sisters. I got a cheap ticket for shipwreck, I'll write it off if reviews are terrible If its a trainwreck of a production ? |
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Post by bgarde on Nov 24, 2018 17:40:49 GMT
Ferran was so good in Summer and Smoke that I'll look forward to even a potentially modernised Three Sisters and the straightforward tenner tickets are a real bonus.
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Post by Steve on Nov 24, 2018 22:49:00 GMT
Ditto I'm three sisters. I got a cheap ticket for shipwreck, I'll write it off if reviews are terrible If its a trainwreck of a production ? If it's a "trainwreck" of a production, rather than a "shipwreck," you will be entitled to your money back under the trade descriptions act.  |
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Post by learfan on Dec 2, 2018 13:52:52 GMT
Just noticed there is a "warning" on the website that Richard II contains the use of latex!!!
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Post by Polly1 on Dec 2, 2018 15:11:12 GMT
Annoying that the Almeida won't give any idea of running time until after the first preview on the 10th. Even an indication such as 3 hours + or 90 mins would be helpful. Regretting booking an evening but seems little chance of being able to swap to a matinee now.
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Post by lynette on Dec 2, 2018 23:32:28 GMT
Latex? OMG
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Post by popcultureboy on Dec 3, 2018 8:02:00 GMT
Annoying that the Almeida won't give any idea of running time until after the first preview on the 10th. Even an indication such as 3 hours + or 90 mins would be helpful. Regretting booking an evening but seems little chance of being able to swap to a matinee now. I think Hill-Gibbins will be aiming for the 90 minutes end of the running time, rather than 3 hours, so if a late finish time is concerning you, you *should* be fine. |
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Post by theatrefan77 on Dec 3, 2018 8:31:48 GMT
I also hope it won't be an overlong production. Going on a Friday evening, kind of regret not having booked a Saturday matinee instead.
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Post by learfan on Dec 3, 2018 10:43:56 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2018 11:00:59 GMT
I guess this means that there is a danger of balloons flying into the audience? Or can an allergic reaction to latex be triggered just by looking at them rather than touching them? |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2018 11:49:51 GMT
What are you objecting to? The existence of allergies? Or the principle that people with allergies should be warned about them? In a space the size of the Almeida, if there are balloons on stage it's not unlikely one could end up in the audience. Can't see why anyone should object to a theatre warning people about this - only impact on anyone who isn't affected is you've had to read 5 extra words on a web page. |
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Post by Jan on Dec 3, 2018 13:23:50 GMT
Nasty flashback to those giant rubber balls Maria Aberg deployed in King John, eh Lynette ? There was a time when Adrian Noble used to use balloons in Shakespeare productions, notably in the Jeremy Irons "Winter's Tale". |
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Post by lynette on Dec 3, 2018 13:48:59 GMT
Fortunately I don’t have allergy to balloons or other latex, ahem. But I do have allergic reaction to rubbish direction. ( not wanting to make fun of serious allergic reactions which I know are no laughing matter)
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Post by David J on Dec 3, 2018 14:02:51 GMT
Fortunately I don’t have allergy to balloons or other latex, ahem. But I do have allergic reaction to rubbish direction. ( not wanting to make fun of serious allergic reactions which I know are no laughing matter) This warning triggered long repressed memories of Maria Abergs King John didn’t it? |
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Post by popcultureboy on Dec 4, 2018 8:05:44 GMT
I guess this means that there is a danger of balloons flying into the audience? Or can an allergic reaction to latex be triggered just by looking at them rather than touching them? It's the latter. The Almeida received a complaint during the run of Hamlet from someone with an allergy to latex so severe that just seeing the balloons had triggered it. I asked at the box office about it when I saw Hamlet in its final week and the warning was up. |
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