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Post by MrBraithwaite on Sept 14, 2021 12:27:15 GMT
Saw it two weeks ago, may not be the greatest play, but very glad I saw it. Would have been even better with Adrian Scarborough, would have loved to see him. Surprised, there was no intermission. Only theatre that checked vaccination status. Watched the IMAGINE doc about Stoppard and the play after, makes even more sense now.  7/10 |
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Post by schuttep on Sept 17, 2021 10:25:40 GMT
I saw this yesterday. What an amazing play. Highly recommended in a West End concentrating on re-commencing musicals.
As has been said, not TS's usual intellectualised content but quite complex family relationships played out over 56 years by the same cast can be confusing; but even without a programme, everything did seem to fall into place.
Listen out for a cracking joke about a business man wanting to smoke a cigar being mistaken for the mohel attending to conduct a circumcision.
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Post by scarpia on Sept 26, 2021 12:13:03 GMT
I saw this yesterday. What an amazing play. Highly recommended in a West End concentrating on re-commencing musicals. As has been said, not TS's usual intellectualised content but quite complex family relationships played out over 56 years by the same cast can be confusing; but even without a programme, everything did seem to fall into place. Listen out for a cracking joke about a business man wanting to smoke a cigar being mistaken for the mohel attending to conduct a circumcision. Out of curiosity, how full was it and how was the audience behaved, esp re masks? I REALLY want to see this before the end of the run (I had tickets in 2020), but am terrified by the behaviour I'm seeing at West End shows as shown in photographs/videos. |
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Post by Mark on Sept 26, 2021 12:16:42 GMT
I saw this yesterday. What an amazing play. Highly recommended in a West End concentrating on re-commencing musicals. As has been said, not TS's usual intellectualised content but quite complex family relationships played out over 56 years by the same cast can be confusing; but even without a programme, everything did seem to fall into place. Listen out for a cracking joke about a business man wanting to smoke a cigar being mistaken for the mohel attending to conduct a circumcision. Out of curiosity, how full was it and how was the audience behaved, esp re masks? I REALLY want to see this before the end of the run (I had tickets in 2020), but am terrified by the behaviour I'm seeing at West End shows as shown in photographs/videos. Don't go in expecting people to wear masks, they are no longer a requirement. Certainly not a lot wearing them when I went to see it. Not wearing masks doesn't really fall under bad behaviour though. |
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Post by scarpia on Sept 26, 2021 12:18:53 GMT
Out of curiosity, how full was it and how was the audience behaved, esp re masks? I REALLY want to see this before the end of the run (I had tickets in 2020), but am terrified by the behaviour I'm seeing at West End shows as shown in photographs/videos. Don't go in expecting people to wear masks, they are no longer a requirement. Certainly not a lot wearing them when I went to see it. Not wearing masks doesn't really fall under bad behaviour though. I thought it was a requirement of the venue? Or have DMT decided to drop that requirement? In their published COVID risk assessment they're claiming that they asking audience members to do so - www.delfontmackintosh.co.uk/downloads/generic/dmt-covid-19-risk-assessment.pdfDepressing but not surprising to learn that the English public is behaving selfishly as ever still. |
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Post by Mark on Sept 26, 2021 12:35:41 GMT
They aren't policing it.
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Post by andrew on Sept 26, 2021 14:10:06 GMT
Out of curiosity, how full was it and how was the audience behaved, esp re masks? I REALLY want to see this before the end of the run (I had tickets in 2020), but am terrified by the behaviour I'm seeing at West End shows as shown in photographs/videos. Don't go in expecting people to wear masks, they are no longer a requirement. Certainly not a lot wearing them when I went to see it. Not wearing masks doesn't really fall under bad behaviour though. It is the epitome of bad behaviour and selfishness as far as I am concerned. |
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Post by edi on Sept 26, 2021 14:27:15 GMT
I am in the theatre once a week and since masks became noncompulsory each week less and less people wear it.
Only one theatre enforced the policy so far, but I am not surprised. It's a policy not requirement so hard to enforce it.
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Post by edi on Sept 26, 2021 14:29:19 GMT
BTW I expected a lot from this but somewhat fell short of those expectations. Too much politics talk and not much family life to add some every day human touch to the story. As if almost forse fed the politics...
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Post by schuttep on Oct 14, 2021 11:04:18 GMT
Scarpia - sorry I've taken so long to respond, but I've been on holiday (yippee!)
The theatre was full. People were being good about masks, though, even though no-one actually has to wear one now.
This play is arguably a different demographic to those where "bad behaviour" can occur.
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Post by Marwood on Oct 14, 2021 15:24:08 GMT
I wore a mask to the Royal Court last week because they asked me but I wear glasses and they mist up when wearing a mask so if I can, I don’t wear one: I’ve been vaccinated so I don’t appreciate being called selfish if I don’t want to wear one, there’s no point being vaccinated if we all have to wear masks every time we go out for the rest of our lives.
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Post by scarpia on Oct 14, 2021 22:00:41 GMT
I wore a mask to the Royal Court last week because they asked me but I wear glasses and they mist up when wearing a mask so if I can, I don’t wear one: I’ve been vaccinated so I don’t appreciate being called selfish if I don’t want to wear one, there’s no point being vaccinated if we all have to wear masks every time we go out for the rest of our lives. I wear glasses all day long as I'm blind without them. They don't have to mist up if you wear the right mask; mine have never done that in the theatre. And the point of being vaccinated is not so much to assist you but to assist others by lowering transmission. That is what masks are designed to do too. The pandemic's not over yet and it certainly won't be any time soon if people are so lax about this. There's a reason the UK's response to COVID has been considered one of the worst in the world and why we are the no. 1 COVID hotspot in Europe. Anyway, I finally saw the play tonight and loved it. Fortunately the audience were well-behaved and most around me wore masks. They also checked everyone's vaccination/COVID status at the door, which also made me feel a lot safer. Tom Stoppard was also in the audience; at least, I assume he was because he was outside on Charing Cross Road immediately after the play was over. I am not expecting the same at ALW's Cinderella next week. Also the programme note from Cameron Mackintosh re his "spectacular new productions" of Poppins and Phantom...um, does this man know any other adjectives? And since when does scaling down both shows make them spectacular? |
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Post by MrBraithwaite on Oct 15, 2021 8:15:57 GMT
I wear glasses and wore a mask in every theatre when I visited London last month, no problem. This was the only theatre that checked vaccination status, so I felt safer there than elsewhere....except the Dominion, which had social distancing.
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Post by amp09 on Oct 20, 2021 12:30:30 GMT
Screening in cinemas 27 Jan. On sale soon.
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Post by Jon on Oct 20, 2021 18:45:34 GMT
Screening in cinemas 27 Jan. On sale soon. Surprised it's not screening in November. |
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Post by fiyerorocher on Oct 20, 2021 21:43:11 GMT
January 27th is Holocaust Memorial Day. I haven't seen the play but from a quick look at the Wikipedia page, I'd imagine that's why they chose that day.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jan 24, 2022 8:19:53 GMT
Bump for the cinema release on 27th January
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Post by danielwhit on Jan 27, 2022 21:57:22 GMT
January 27th is Holocaust Memorial Day. I haven't seen the play but from a quick look at the Wikipedia page, I'd imagine that's why they chose that day. Ah, of course, that makes perfect sense. I'm just on my way home from cinema. Still very much in processing mode about the play itself however the filming itself I thought was first class. |
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Post by ruthieh on Jan 27, 2022 22:08:01 GMT
Seen it tonight for NTLive. That was so good. And so moving to see it today on Holocaust Memorial Day.
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Post by NorthernAlien on Jan 28, 2022 13:15:42 GMT
I too saw it last night on NT Live. I thought it was exceptional. Yes, there's a lot of 'info dumping' and that isn't subtle - but I don't think it's meant to be - it feels a lot like Stoppard is standing on top of a hill somewhere, screaming his lungs out to get people to see that this stuff happened before*, happened again, and will continue to happen. The 1924 scene also taught me a lot about the inter-war Austrian experience - something I knew nothing about previously, other than what we've been presented with in 'The Sound of Music'. {Spoiler - click to view}
I've read back through the comments, and I noticed that some people mentioned the sheer number of characters, and how confusing it was to keep track of who everyone was in later scenes - I do agree that, especially in 1924 when the kids from 1899/1900 had suddenly grown up, keeping track was difficult. But again, I think that's the point. Being shown the sheer number of characters at the start, seeing that number being added to in 1924, and then seeing how few of them there are in 1955 is, I think, rather the point. We can be told frequently about the scale of the Holocaust - shown the numbers, and the lists, and the footage of concentration camps. But seeing all those people in the background of the final scene, as Leonard reads the names on the family tree, as Rosa and Nathan provide commentary as to their relatives' fates, really brings home the extraordinary scale of the loss. Intellectually, I knew going in that the global Jewish population is today, some 70+ years after the end of the Second World War, still significantly fewer in number than it was before the 'final solution' was implemented, but that still feels abstract. Seeing the reality of that industrialised death makes it human, and real. And it is a story we need to be told, as the survivors become fewer with each year that passes. As Grandma Emilia says at the start - (paraphrasing) 'you have to know who everyone was, talk about them whilst you're still alive, pass on their stories, otherwise everyone forgets who they were, and stops talking about them. And they are lost to history'.
I hope this comes back, either in the West End, or as an encore on NT Live, or onto NT at Home, because I think it's such an important story that as many people as possible should be able to see it. Yes, it may not be a perfect piece of theatre, but some moments transcend the need for art to be ranked on a scale of stars out of five, or points out of ten. *One of the early long speeches, where Merz and Ludwig(?) talk about the early- to mid-19th Century Austrian Jewish experience, especially with the wearing of the yellow tags, was something I never knew about. But it's hugely indicative of 'all this will happen again', as we know it did in the 1930s and 40s. And the mention of the Jewish relatives living further east, who always had bags packed, ready to flee - I have a Jewish friend who lives in south London - she has a bag packed with emergency cash, in several currencies, in her house, available at a moment's notice. Stuff hasn't changed, even if it's people of other races/ethnicities/beliefs also being targeted today. |
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Post by Jon on Jan 28, 2022 15:22:38 GMT
I imagine Broadway is on the cards as Stoppard usually does well there.
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Post by lynette on Jan 29, 2022 11:29:52 GMT
I imagine Broadway is on the cards as Stoppard usually does well there. This was, I believe the plan before the virus. |
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Post by harrietcraig on Feb 4, 2022 15:35:25 GMT
Leopoldstadt is not going to be shown in the US as an NT Live screening — I just got an answer to that effect from the NT, in reply to a question I had asked in a YouTube chat window about a month ago. (The fact that the NT Live website says “Showtimes coming here soon” when I search for New York showtimes for Leopoldstadt is apparently just a tease.) While that’s disappointing, hopefully it means there are plans for a Broadway transfer.
A production of Leopoldstadt that had been scheduled to play in Toronto in January and February of this year was canceled because of omicron. It seems likely that that production had been intended as a pre-Broadway tryout, with plans to transfer to Broadway later this spring. It’s unclear what the Toronto cancellation means for the timing of a potential Broadway production.
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Post by djdan14 on Mar 1, 2022 10:35:36 GMT
Anyone going to the Sky VIP screening tomorrow?
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Post by fiyero on Mar 2, 2022 15:46:42 GMT
Anyone going to the Sky VIP screening tomorrow? I was but double booked myself so released the tickets. |
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