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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2019 20:56:48 GMT
Not seen pigeons in there but I did see a couple of ducks getting annoyed that the building is closed on Sundays
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Post by Someone in a tree on Feb 28, 2019 19:32:33 GMT
As my working day ended near the Nash I thought I would pop in to buy the new Company script. Wasn't on the Sondheim shelf with all the Follies merchandise and accedimic books it also wasn't with Sondhdeim's other scripts. I had to ask for it as it was in the warehouse.
The staff are all very nice and polite but when they can't manage a release...
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Post by sf on Mar 1, 2019 3:54:30 GMT
As my working day ended near the Nash I thought I would pop in to buy the new Company script. Wasn't on the Sondheim shelf with all the Follies merchandise and accedimic books it also wasn't with Sondhdeim's other scripts. I had to ask for it as it was in the warehouse. The staff are all very nice and polite but when they can't manage a release... It was on the shelves in the bookshop on Wednesday afternoon. How do I know? I bought one. Oddly, they didn't have it on the souvenir stand in the lobby at the Gielgud on Wednesday night (I saw Follies in the afternoon and Company in the evening). |
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Post by Someone in a tree on Mar 1, 2019 6:59:13 GMT
As my working day ended near the Nash I thought I would pop in to buy the new Company script. Wasn't on the Sondheim shelf with all the Follies merchandise and accedimic books it also wasn't with Sondhdeim's other scripts. I had to ask for it as it was in the warehouse. The staff are all very nice and polite but when they can't manage a release... It was on the shelves in the bookshop on Wednesday afternoon. How do I know? I bought one. Oddly, they didn't have it on the souvenir stand in the lobby at the Gielgud on Wednesday night (I saw Follies in the afternoon and Company in the evening). LOL. I wonder at which point the staff releasised they had broke the embargo? |
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Post by joem on Mar 1, 2019 8:08:55 GMT
Not seen pigeons in there but I did see a couple of ducks getting annoyed that the building is closed on Sundays Were they queueing for Ibsen? |
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Post by Someone in a tree on Mar 31, 2019 15:40:41 GMT
I spotted the mouse on Friday. It was running away from the lyttelton theatre and towards the river. I guess it couldn't take any more of Top Girls
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Post by sf on Mar 31, 2019 17:25:27 GMT
I spotted the mouse on Friday. It was running away from the lyttelton theatre and towards the river. I guess it couldn't take any more of Top Girls
To be fair, Caryl Churchill's work sometimes has that effect on me as well.
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Post by shady23 on Apr 5, 2019 19:38:15 GMT
Thought this thread may be of interest
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2019 21:30:54 GMT
We had soup,coffee and cake before seeing Follies but as The NT is a public space (we saw a lady doing yoga and a man with his bike in the building as well as people on laptops)and as there are no signs saying the cafe is only for theatre-goers,I can’t see why the staff are being so invasive.Surely if you are a paying customer you should have the right to eat at your own speed.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2019 23:53:31 GMT
Coincidentally I stumbled across this policy of ‘making way for ticket holders’ on their website earlier today, and it was brand new info for me as I never I turn up early enough for any of this to apply (aside from that time I got my dates wrong and turned up 24 hours too early).
The amount of seats around the place, why don’t they just corner some off for folk not seeing something? I can’t imagine there’d be that many people around (not seeing something) when the masses arrive to need many seats. Or better yet, open the auditoriums earlier so those who get a seat early enough (and are seeing something) don’t feel a need to keep said seat until 5 minutes before the performances start.
It all just feels a bit pedantic.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2019 0:31:52 GMT
I’ve even seen people there during the day having tutorials with their students (not about theatre, I think it was economics).
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Post by andrew on Apr 6, 2019 9:40:18 GMT
They could, of course, just turn off the wifi for 90 minutes before each performance... The cafe studier knows the ways of the world TM, and if WiFi goes suddenly mobile hotspots will be activated en masse. Those concrete walls make it a bit slow, but nothing tears a student from a warm place with a desk (apart from food). I've sat there to do a bit of work in the afternoon when not seeing a play on weekdays off, but if I'm a member is that not allowed? Or maybe just the line "I sat through Macbeth. All the way through Macbeth. I've earned this". |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2019 9:50:13 GMT
nothing tears a student from a warm place with a desk (apart from food). Food? No. Alcohol. |
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Post by talkingheads on Apr 6, 2019 17:46:07 GMT
I don't see why they've made such an issue. If you're a ticket holder then you're about to be sat down for 2 hours +. Why the need for a seat in the foyer? If you need to eat then get there early enough like any eatery!
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Post by learfan on Apr 6, 2019 17:53:52 GMT
They could, of course, just turn off the wifi for 90 minutes before each performance... I wondered about that. |
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Post by shady23 on Apr 6, 2019 18:58:02 GMT
I don't see why they've made such an issue. If you're a ticket holder then you're about to be sat down for 2 hours +. Why the need for a seat in the foyer? If you need to eat then get there early enough like any eatery! When I go to a show I go along and then go to my seat. In very few theatres there are places to sit down outside the auditorium beforehand. |
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Post by Dawnstar on Apr 8, 2019 18:05:40 GMT
I don't see why they've made such an issue. If you're a ticket holder then you're about to be sat down for 2 hours +. Why the need for a seat in the foyer? If you need to eat then get there early enough like any eatery!
I arrived an hour early for Follies, having been standing/walking around London for 2 hours since the 4.30pm finish of my matinee. I was very glad to be able to find a seat once I got to the National. |
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Post by Someone in a tree on Jul 7, 2019 14:19:01 GMT
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Post by Jon on Jul 7, 2019 14:37:38 GMT
Sounds like they were removed for being disruptive than for being lesbians
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Post by londonpostie on Jul 7, 2019 15:17:03 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2019 16:25:17 GMT
It’ll be interesting to see if we ever get anything like the full story on this one. Maybe someone could suggest a public discussion, a la Tree? ;-)
One thing’s for sure - at the moment nobody’s coming out of it well.
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Post by Backdrifter on Jul 7, 2019 18:04:36 GMT
It’ll be interesting to see if we ever get anything like the full story on this one. Maybe someone could suggest a public discussion, a la Tree? ;-) One thing’s for sure - at the moment nobody’s coming out of it well. Tree? I reckon that's that one done. From tomorrow, possibly even from about 8.40 this evening, no-one will care or in some cases remember it. |
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Post by lynette on Mar 9, 2020 11:13:01 GMT
I know you know I am not a fan of this mausoleum of a theatre but does anyone else think the fun has gone out of visiting the NT, especially the Dorfman? The foyer is dark and the benches to sit on are uncomfortable and too few. The ‘cafe stall’ is pathetic and the auditorium is a dark cave most of the time. I know dark is essential for theatre but not until the play starts. All those West End venues with their baroque decoration have a point. You want to feel you are somewhere special. It ain’t cheap these days and I do think some thought should be given to the punters to let them enjoy a night out. Light, music, live if possible, decent food and drink, seating and so on....all would help this. I’m no fan of the architecture which was brought about by one person’s obsession with ‘brutalism’ and a lack of cash but I feel this has seeped into the ambience even more than ever. There is a decent outside space to the Dorfman. I wonder if that could be used for entertainment and more food options once the weather improves. When I go there I always feel I am in the foyer of the undertaker. There aren't’ even any cast or production photos, pinned up or projected up inside the foyer, nothing to say it is a theatre. Ok, first rant of the year on NT over. Can’t promise there won’t be more.
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Post by MrBraithwaite on Mar 9, 2020 14:57:17 GMT
Never understood, why people hate the NT so much...perhaps I as a foreigner see it differently (Do the British people want a National Theatre? Of Course not!) I think the Olivier is one of the greatest stages in the West End. But yes, I do really hate the Dorfman, cramped seating and dark and unfriendly. Went for the first time last year and one time since...don't like it at all.
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Post by crowblack on Mar 9, 2020 15:26:37 GMT
I do really hate the Dorfman I like the theatre space itself, but hang around in the main NT building or on the riverbank promenade thing before a show. It's in a shady, cold alley and I don't think there's much that can be done about that. |
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