To Kill A Mockingbird - Gielgud

[eliza]

Relieved this has been moved, my Come From Away tickets had been moved to the same date I was booked for in July, although I'm expecting that to be moved again too.

[Fleance]

[Jon]

Did anyone receive their e-tickets for To Kill a Mockingbird? Bit odd they've emailing it this early considering it doesn't start until March.

[jampot]

Nov 24, 2021 19:12:27 GMT Jon said:

Did anyone receive their e-tickets for To Kill a Mockingbird? Bit odd they've emailing it this early considering it doesn't start until March.

Got mine this am

[drmaplewood]

Rafe Spall's Atticus Finch will be joined by Pamela Nomvete, Jim Norton, Jude Owusu, David Moorst, Gwyneth Keyworth and Harry Redding.

[Stephen]

First preview on Thursday. Anyone seeing this in the first weeks? My ticket (having been moved many times due to covid is now later in the run)

Rafe Spall has promised a performance entirely different from Jeff Daniels and Ed Harris.

[Dave B]

Mar 7, 2022 23:52:07 GMT Stephen said:

First preview on Thursday. Anyone seeing this in the first weeks? My ticket (having been moved many times due to covid is now later in the run)

Rafe Spall has promised a performance entirely different from Jeff Daniels and Ed Harris.

Ours got moved around a lot too but due the first week of April now.

[jampot]

Mar 7, 2022 23:52:07 GMT Stephen said:

First preview on Thursday. Anyone seeing this in the first weeks? My ticket (having been moved many times due to covid is now later in the run)

Rafe Spall has promised a performance entirely different from Jeff Daniels and Ed Harris.

19th March for me..

[NeilVHughes]

TodayTix All Rise offer, £15 tickets, booked centre row R for this price and seems a very generous offer.

[zahidf]

Yup got Stalls Row J for next week

[jamb0r]

Very pleased with that offer! Looks like the seats they are offering in the stalls are usually £77.50 later in the run. They're disappearing pretty quickly!

[Phantom of London]

I see this very good offer, but find it disappointing.


I see a seat available and selecting, then I get the whirly thingy come up saying loading, then keeps coming up as error. Very frustrating,

[forevercolours]

I caught the matinee today after grabbing front row tickets in the TodayTix £15 rush today.

All I can say is… WOW!

I really, thoroughly enjoyed this play. The performances were just phenomenal from everyone but especially Rafe Spall, Gwenyth Keyworth, Harry Redding and David Moorst.

As a fan of Sorkin’s writing for many years, I knew I had to see this. I attempted to see it while on a trip to NYC but the ticket price was too high for me. There were so many Sorkin-isms I spotted throughout the dialogue which just added to my overall enjoyment. There was also a good level of humour laced throughout which was balanced perfectly and didn’t encroach on the heaviness of the overall plot. Several audible gasps at points where the fates of characters were revealed which perhaps highlights the amount of people seeing it without having read the book.It’s also impossible to not comment on the relevance to recent global events, with several lines of dialogue hitting very close to the case of George Floyd and BLM as a whole which brought tears to my eyes on several occasions.

I can see why this was so well received on Broadway and I see it doing really well over here!

[swill]

I saw this last night. It is so good. Every element of this production is special with the cast universally excellent but especially from Spall, Moorst, Redding, Keyworth and O’Keane. Must see! 5 stars.

Geilgud theatre staff however was very loud with glass clearing in the second half and ran at 3 hours and 5 minutes but I imagine this will come down because it was only the second preview and it seemed slow in places. Set was clever and fit nicely with the piece as a whole.

[Stephen]

Oh I'm so happy hearing the great response come in already. Can anyone please let us know either having had seen it or if you are going soon if they have posters on sale? I'd really like to get one when I go!

[londonmzfitz]

Dunno about posters but £12 for a mug! I said no.

Loved the kids, especially Dill. Would have liked a bit more gravitas from Spall. I saw this some years ago at The Barbican with Robert Sean Leonard, a quieter, somber Atticus. That felt more in accordance with the book.

I love Sorkin's writing and have been waiting for so long to see this, but will admit to being a little underwhelmed. I know the book backwards and forwards and there were some bits that felt a bit "over-egging". Would be different to an audience who come fresh to this, I guess.

Want to think more about it, but it's "Good" from me, not Amazing.

How high is the stage? I was second row, which is C, in seat 8. Stage is high but I don't think you miss anything.

[Deleted]

From what I recall when I saw it on Broadway it ran close to 3 hours so I'm not sure the run time will come down that much.

Doesn't matter if it's good though - Small Island is 3 hours 15 but didn't feel over-long at all.

[Stephen]

Any news on a playtext for this being published? I haven’t found anything about it so far and thought there might not be because of the Harper Lee estate/wanting to only have one printed TKAM but it’s a real pity if that’s the case.

It would be lovely as a companion piece when students are covering the novel in schools!

[Jon]

Mar 14, 2022 16:21:41 GMT Stephen said:

Any news on a playtext for this being published? I haven’t found anything about it so far and thought there might not be because of the Harper Lee estate/wanting to only have one printed TKAM but it’s a real pity if that’s the case.

It would be lovely as a companion piece when students are covering the novel in schools!

Yeah, I find it weird that there isn't a playtext published.

[BurlyBeaR]

Seen it? Rate it! Poll added.

[sfsusan]

I saw it tonight and thought overall it was good, but not great. I thought the actor playing Scout was great, but Rafe Spall was uneven. At times it seemed his cadences and inflections were channeling Jeff Daniels. And there were odd pauses in his delivery that seemed out of place or just too long.

I also think there were a couple of missed cues by the judge in the courtroom scenes. Mr. Spall just continued on after a brief silence in one instance and in the other he prompted the judge. But, it's still in previews, so those minor things are to be expected.

They also play with time in a way I found hard to follow at times.

There were a lot of empty seats in the stalls tonight. I was in Row H (maybe the 7th row or thereabouts) and could count 15-20 empty seats in front of or next to me, which had been empty from the beginning (so not people who arrived late or left at the interval). I'm not sure I'd want to be closer, as the stage is very high. I was eye level with the stage and luckily the four seats in front of me were among the empty ones, so I had no sightline issues.

I'm glad I saw it (I'd forgotten most of the book and the Gregory Peck movie), and it was very affecting in parts, and there were some stirring speeches and some that were meant to be stirring but just didn't quite make it.

[Dr Tom]

I saw this last night and thought it was good, but not outstanding. Ran almost exactly three hours.

I was in Row N Stalls with an excellent value £15 Rush seat. The seats showed sold out initially (despite my attempts at split second timing) but some more became available a few minutes after 10am.

I'm not quite sure how this became such a runaway success in New York, but maybe it's a cultural thing. I have read the book (and I saw the previous play at the Birmingham Rep a decade or more ago), but this is changed around so much and refocused on the adults, it's almost as if it's a version for people who remember the book from when they were a child and now want to see the grown-up version. Not too sure how well this will play to the GCSE crowd, if that is the intention.

It wasn't completely full and some people (like the lady next to me) didn't return after the interval. There is a chance she moved to a better seat. There were just so many coughers (and so few other people wearing masks) that I'm expecting to get my ping from the NHS app any time now. And the staff leave the side Stalls doors without them being covered by curtains so the glass reflects light from the stage all the way through, which is very distracting (not as bad as the person near me with a light up watch, although thankfully the usher stepped in there).

I also cannot understand why people laugh at the most inappropriate times, but this is far from the only play where that happens.

The performances are all strong, although I didn't warm to Atticus as a character (perhaps how this was intended). Glad I saw this, but I would say don't rush out to buy premium priced seats. I imagine there will be plenty of offers.

[londonmzfitz]

Mar 15, 2022 10:53:33 GMT Dr Tom said:

....... but this is changed around so much and refocused on the adults, it's almost as if it's a version for people who remember the book from when they were a child and now want to see the grown-up version. Not too sure how well this will play to the GCSE crowd, if that is the intention.

My biggest gripe, walking to the tube, was that THE big line, the line that everything pivots from, was said by an adult when it's a child's line, in the book and in the film and in the production I saw at The Barbican years ago.  My interpretation of the book/film was that this is the perspective of children of how this story is played out, the injustice etc which to a child would be (Oh, Gawd, I'm going there) black and white, just and unjust, fair and unfair without any nod to adult's prejudice, which is reflected in the staging at several times in this play (and that works really well), but to give *THAT* line to an adult - it jarred for me.  

[floorshow]

Is Boo Radley still in if its an adult perspective?

[Dr Tom]

Mar 15, 2022 14:29:32 GMT floorshow said:

Is Boo Radley still in if its an adult perspective?

Yes, but that aspect of the story is rather downplayed (at least from how I remember the book).