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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2019 14:09:46 GMT
Nice, a good enough cast that it's worth people getting excited about it, but not enough for me to have to overcome my Pinter aversion. *phew!*
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Post by kathryn on Jan 10, 2019 14:22:43 GMT
Yes, she played Emma in the extract reading with Tom at the Pinter Gala. Plus they did the Intelligence Squared Dickens vs Tolstoy debate together. I had a sneaking suspicion there was something bigger brewing. They've definitely got chemistry. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2019 14:48:25 GMT
Ooooooooh me loves The Cox. And Charlie. Fnar. I'd tap him like a maple tree.  |
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Post by Marwood on Jan 10, 2019 15:47:56 GMT
Great news, I've just started watching Charlie Cox in Daredevil over the last couple of months and I've really been getting into it (shames its been cancelled, but heres hoping it gets another chance on the new Marvel TV channel we are supposedly getting), I also thought he was great in Boardwalk Empire.
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Post by lakeside on Jan 11, 2019 17:37:23 GMT
Really really glad that I have tickets to this (although somewhat surprised that there are quite a few good ones left, all that worry for nothing) and with the casting news of yesterday! Loved Zawe Ashton in various TV programmes and in The Maids a couple of years ago so really happy about that, but I'm very out of touch and haven't seen anything with Charlie Cox in since Stardust :/
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Post by learfan on Jan 11, 2019 18:31:23 GMT
Oh good. Kinda glad i didnt fork out after all. Very underwhelming co stars.
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Post by jadnoop on Jan 19, 2019 15:41:09 GMT
For anyone holding out for cheaper tickets. If you're under 30, a key worker or on JSA, a tweet just went out confirming that £15 tickets will start going on sale in Feb:
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Post by MrsCondomine on Jan 28, 2019 14:48:50 GMT
Cox cannot be a worse Jerry than Jeremy Irons.
Don't @ me.
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Post by kathryn on Feb 15, 2019 14:44:48 GMT
Probably no-one but me will care about this snippet of trivia - according to Zawe Ashton this production was only pulled together after the Pinter Gala in October. Literally she was being asked if they were in rehearsals for a full production by a bunch of people at the afterparty, which made them think they should actually do one.
Quick work putting the whole thing together, given that they announced in in November.
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Post by theatrelover123 on Feb 15, 2019 15:42:24 GMT
Probably no-one but me will care about this snippet of trivia - according to Zawe Ashton this production was only pulled together after the Pinter Gala in October. Literally she was being asked if they were in rehearsals for a full production by a bunch of people at the afterparty, which made them think they should actually do one. Quick work putting the whole thing together, given that they announced in in November. Literally she was being asked?  |
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Post by kathryn on Feb 15, 2019 16:15:25 GMT
That's what she says!
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Post by dillan on Feb 23, 2019 12:31:43 GMT
For anyone holding out for cheaper tickets. If you're under 30, a key worker or on JSA, a tweet just went out confirming that £15 tickets will start going on sale in Feb: I’m guessing this isn’t happening anymore  |
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Post by David J on Feb 23, 2019 20:43:16 GMT
For anyone holding out for cheaper tickets. If you're under 30, a key worker or on JSA, a tweet just went out confirming that £15 tickets will start going on sale in Feb: I’m guessing this isn’t happening anymore Had a chat with box office staff. Any announcements has been pushed back and back but it should be happening |
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Post by David J on Feb 23, 2019 20:43:44 GMT
I’m guessing this isn’t happening anymore Had a chat with box office staff. An announcement has been pushed back and back but it should be happening |
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Post by mistressjojo on Feb 25, 2019 11:40:57 GMT
Just tweeted now
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2019 12:19:59 GMT
Zawe giving it her best Meghan Markdown there . . .
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Post by Mark on Mar 3, 2019 11:22:43 GMT
Find it a bizarre set of criteria for being eligible for the £15 tickets. I saw the previous production here about 8 years ago and don't remember much about it (except I bought one of the now extinct £5 pillar seats in the stalls). Will wait for some opinions on here before deciding.
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Post by Latecomer on Mar 3, 2019 14:15:56 GMT
I went for standing ticket at the back of Royal Cirlce for £15 in the end.....as all other hideously expensive. Seemed to be on sale for next two weeks only so far
I loved those £5 pillar seats...
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Mar 5, 2019 21:51:28 GMT
Well that was minimalist.
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Post by Rory on Mar 5, 2019 22:07:19 GMT
Well that was minimalist. Will be interested to hear your thoughts! |
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Post by lynette on Mar 5, 2019 22:20:49 GMT
Well that was minimalist. We expect maxi malist for comments please. But love your style. 🤪 |
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Post by Steve on Mar 9, 2019 22:59:55 GMT
Saw this tonight. The expressive minimalist staging is a thing of beauty, the star of this production. Some spoilers follow. . . Jamie Lloyd's staging sculpts out everything extraneous to the shifting relationships of the three characters (the set is rarely more than two chairs, with spare characters placed precisely into the mise en scene to express the power and nature of their influence over the characters in the scene), choreographing Pinter's choreographed play as a dance. Unlike previous versions I have seen of this play, this one won't betray you if you lose concentration for a minute or two, as the visual staging speaks eloquently any words you miss: where people stand, whether they sit or stand, who is between who, who lurks behind, where they look, how fast they move, how far apart, whether they confrontationally face each other, sit aloof side to side, or touch each in intimate embrace; the blocking ever translates Pinter's fateful verbal power swings into movement, a dance. (Do pay scrupulous attention to the first scenes though. Pinter's play moves through time backwards, and this first set of scenes sets up EVERYTHING that follows). I'm loving minimalist sets and abstractly expressive staging at the minute: the Simon Stone "Medea," the Van Hove "View from the Bridge," and while this is more externally bloodless in it's meticulousness, and pared down acting style, less hysterical, more "Brief Encounter" in it's internalised anguish, than those more heightened affairs, this is nonetheless just as acutely poetically expressive. Charlie Cox evinces all the innocence and lightness he displayed in the Donmar's "Prince of Homburg," while hinting at a conspiratorial mind behind the lightness in flashes of dark hesitation, Zawe Ashton is breezily whimsical and romantic on the surface, yet suggests a lostness and sadness beneath; and star turn Tom Hiddleston is simultaneously the most civilised, urbane and controlled he's been, while welling up with visible despair and rage in the (Pinter) pauses. All the performances enhance Lloyd's dance. Tonight, betrayal spread from stage to audience, as huge swathes of the audience betrayed the actors by disappearing before the curtain call. One usher channeled Charlie Cox's innocent befuddlement, while a taller exasperated Hiddleston-like usher urbanely mused: "It's the rush for the stage door, darling." The audience joined the fateful onstage dance, betraying their love objects, while purporting to honour them. Jamie Lloyd, you open my eyes.  4 and a half stars. |
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Post by rumbledoll on Mar 10, 2019 8:53:02 GMT
Any news on possible dayseats please?
Sorry if it has already been answered here before - a bit short for time turning over 15+ pages now..
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Post by Mark on Mar 10, 2019 8:56:12 GMT
Any news on possible dayseats please? Sorry if it has already been answered here before - a bit short for time turning over 15+ pages now.. No dayseats but check out one page back has the details of the under 30/key workers rush. |
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Post by rumbledoll on Mar 10, 2019 14:24:24 GMT
Thanks, Mark!
I’m afraid I’m not under 30 anymore...
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