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Post by Rory on Oct 3, 2019 8:41:03 GMT
@theatremonkey Please could title and venue be amended?
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Post by Rory on Oct 3, 2019 10:03:45 GMT
Thank you! 🌝
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Post by mrbarnaby on Oct 3, 2019 23:49:11 GMT
The only theatre available that isn't booked up is The Garrick after Noises Off but I suspect something else is going there. The plan is to extend Noises off and then City of Angels opens there feb/March |
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Post by n1david on Oct 4, 2019 8:57:21 GMT
Menier has set up a mailing list explicitly "to be informed of a potential future West End transfer of THE WATSONS" so it looks like they have aspirations at least...
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Post by theatrelover123 on Oct 4, 2019 11:49:39 GMT
Maybe the Playhouse from March 2020?
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Post by Jon on Oct 4, 2019 11:59:31 GMT
Maybe the Playhouse from March 2020? I think The Jamie Lloyd Company have the Playhouse for a season |
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Post by nick on Oct 4, 2019 16:34:12 GMT
What surprises me is great reviews from what I have read, sold out and yet board members haven't seen it. Anyone booked to go? I saw it last Saturday. The problem is that it's very hard to write a review. The acting is good. The production and set work but don't set the world on fire. Personally I enjoyed it but I don't think the script is as clever as it thinks it is. It is very funny. No big spoilers but I'll say more in tags: {Spoiler - click to view}
The set up takes a long time - so much I thought I'd misunderstood what the play was trying to do and it was simply a straightforward version of the Austen book.. But it's worth the wait. |
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Post by Rory on Oct 5, 2019 13:13:29 GMT
Maybe the Playhouse from March 2020? I think The Jamie Lloyd Company have the Playhouse for a season It will have, and if the Garrick gets City of Angels after Noises Off, the only two available early next year would be the Trafalgar Studios 1 and the Ambassadors. Could it work in either of those? The Menier's not massive either! |
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Post by nick on Oct 5, 2019 17:17:41 GMT
I think The Jamie Lloyd Company have the Playhouse for a season It will have, and if the Garrick gets City of Angels after Noises Off, the only two available early next year would be the Trafalgar Studios 1 and the Ambassadors. Could it work in either of those? The Menier's not massive either! I don't know those stages but it probably needs a bigger space than the Menier - it's a big cast (15?) and there are scenes that could do with extra space. But then the set is quite intimate. Would work OK with a proscenium though. |
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Post by stefy69 on Oct 9, 2019 10:04:27 GMT
Would be a good fit for the Ambassadors I think
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Post by stefy69 on Oct 14, 2019 5:39:00 GMT
Saw this Saturday and loved it one of the best plays I've seen for a long time.
The large ensemble cast are all excellent and a transfer must be on the cards, if you can get a seat see it please !
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Post by schuttep on Oct 14, 2019 9:17:09 GMT
I saw this yesterday and thought it was hilarious. I can see how some thought it wasn't as good as it thought it was but I loved the meta approach.
And it's sold out for the whole run so no surprise they want to transfer it; Ambassadors or Trafalgar 1 would be fine. It's a large cast - 19 and there are times when they're all on stage together.
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Post by MrBunbury on Oct 17, 2019 14:23:41 GMT
I feel I am the odd one out but this did not live up to th hype for me. Excellent acting but not revelatory as everyone seems to say. I love Jane Austen and I found the concept of the author and characters facing the open future interesting, but it was not a "wow" production for me. Still happy if it trasnfers since most people likes the play and Laura Wade is a lovely person.
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Post by jadnoop on Oct 20, 2019 2:07:59 GMT
Wow. This was really rather good. It’s difficult to say much without spoiling the central conceit (although in my opinion the press photos and [wonderful] poster give the game away too much). However, I thought this was a clever, exciting, fun and funny way of making a play out of an unfinished Jane Austen story. Full of smart gags, Austen’s sharp wit, and lots of in-jokes, this will have you laughing away, even if your only experience is catching Pride and Prejudice on tv. The second half perhaps didn’t quite meet the excellence of the first, but it was still enjoyable, and the play ended in what felt like an appropriately optimistic & expansive way. The acting was uniformly great, and I also really loved the staging, which surprisingly rarely felt constricted by the small Menier stage. Media that take the approach of being about the creative process can risk feeling too self absorbed and naval gazing, especially when writers write ‘themselves’ into their art but I think The Watsons balanced this pretty well. While it wasn’t quite as smart or inventive as the meta-heights hit by the likes of Charlie Kaufman, Kurt Vonnegut or Grant Morrison, or as exhilarating as last year’s An Octoroon, this was certainly worth the trip to the theatre. A solid four stars for me. |
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Post by Rory on Oct 20, 2019 11:13:34 GMT
This would be a great show for the Haymarket if OFAH doesn't extend beyond 8th Feb.
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Post by firstwetakemanhattan on Oct 24, 2019 13:18:21 GMT
Thought I would post that I just noticed that the Thursday 14th November date has loads of tickets just appeared for an afternoon perfomance , in fact have they added an extra matinee possibly, as all dates were previously sold out with the exception of the odd return here and there. Very pleased as want to see this and I will be booking for the 14th.
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Post by stefy69 on Oct 24, 2019 13:44:12 GMT
Thought I would post that I just noticed that the Thursday 14th November date has loads of tickets just appeared for an afternoon perfomance , in fact have they added an extra matinee possibly, as all dates were previously sold out with the exception of the odd return here and there. Very pleased as want to see this and I will be booking for the 14th. Yes the only scheduled matinees were on Saturdays and Sundays. Good news ! |
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Post by Rory on Nov 11, 2019 18:42:33 GMT
Transferring to the Harold Pinter from 8th May. Until 26th September. Mon - Sat 7.30pm Wed, Sat 2.30pm Presented by Chocolate Factory Productions and Sonia Friedman Productions. www.thewatsonsplay.com |
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Post by Jon on Nov 11, 2019 18:55:58 GMT
Oddly the website doesn't confirm it. Seems like a long wait but I guess theatre availability is a factor. |
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Post by zahidf on Nov 12, 2019 7:47:14 GMT
Transfer confirmed to Harold Pinter via menier email
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Post by stefy69 on Nov 12, 2019 9:36:39 GMT
Just booked via Menier e-mail offer . Happy pre Xmas bunny here
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2019 15:32:56 GMT
Hmmm ... £40 for my usual partially restricted view seat in the stalls is more than I'm willing to pay to sit behind a pillar! Think I'll wait for offers on this.
During the priority period the Menier site was showing the front row of the stalls as £25 although off sale, so I guess these may be being held for day seats?
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Post by Jon on Nov 12, 2019 21:01:03 GMT
Used the Menier offer as well. Agree £39.50 is cheeky for N7. I'm guessing day seats on row A too. Clearly Sonia and David have been reading Theatreboard |
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Post by lynette on Nov 14, 2019 23:50:35 GMT
This is certainly an entertaining and thought provoking piece. I thoroughly enjoyed it, not least the way the acting styles defined the characters as opposed to Laura, the author. Not too long but the way the Menier audience meanders in at the start and at the interval added ten minutes.
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Post by firstwetakemanhattan on Nov 15, 2019 10:49:32 GMT
Was there for the matinee yesterday and thoroughly enjoyed it. Very funny and amusing to me at many points and liked the whole idea and conpect of the play. The intimate feeling of the Menier of course helps, liked the setting and stage and what they did with the small space, just an overall very entertaining piece of theatre. {Especially liked}
Towards the end when they sudenly start disco/rave dancing, hilarious stuff! |
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