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Post by kathryn on Sept 16, 2019 19:31:29 GMT
Hmm, the BA press release has a dead link to the BA exec club pages and a link to the ATG website, so no help there. There is a note at the end of it about a reduced 12 month ATG membership fee of £25, which seems kind of odd given that priority booking is the main membership benefit. Badly drafted press release, I guess! mediacentre.britishairways.com/pressrelease/details/86/2019-319/11378 |
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Post by sam22 on Sept 16, 2019 21:07:04 GMT
I'm not an ATG cardholder but I got an email this morning saying booked a number of Jamie Lloyd shows before so can do priority booking. Wasn't planning to see it but got bored on the train so booked lol!
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Post by ftfadia on Sept 17, 2019 7:54:53 GMT
The booking queue this morning didn't turn out to be that bad and ended up with £15 seats. Not a great view but hey ho
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Post by couldileaveyou on Nov 4, 2019 12:20:26 GMT
Apparently there is nudity in it?
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Post by Jan on Nov 4, 2019 13:04:00 GMT
Apparently there is nudity in it? They should have made that clear by putting a big warning on the advertising material, it would have sold loads more seats. Surprised that given the involvement of Martin Crimp people aren't waiting for reviews of this before booking. |
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Post by theoracle on Nov 4, 2019 13:07:32 GMT
The booking queue this morning didn't turn out to be that bad and ended up with £15 seats. Not a great view but hey ho Managed to get F15 Dress Circle so glad it’s a central view. Would like to be closer though but for £15, I don’t mind. What’s the running time for this? |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2019 13:12:57 GMT
Apparently there is nudity in it? Yep James McAvoy runs around waving a long erect phallic like part of his face. I'm surprised the PC brigade haven't moaned about this play yet. |
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Post by couldileaveyou on Nov 4, 2019 14:09:03 GMT
The booking queue this morning didn't turn out to be that bad and ended up with £15 seats. Not a great view but hey ho Yeah me too, got a row N lateral seat, but for 15£ is still a blessing |
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Post by andrew on Nov 4, 2019 15:19:24 GMT
The booking queue this morning didn't turn out to be that bad and ended up with £15 seats. Not a great view but hey ho Yeah me too, got a row N lateral seat, but for 15£ is still a blessing There was quite a wide disparity in available seats, for one date I could only get restricted view, for another centre stalls... guess which I picked... |
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Post by Boob on Nov 4, 2019 17:22:55 GMT
Apparently there is nudity in it? They should have made that clear by putting a big warning on the advertising material, it would have sold loads more seats. Surprised that given the involvement of Martin Crimp people aren't waiting for reviews of this before booking. Oh, I most certainly am waiting for that very reason! |
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Post by Jan on Nov 4, 2019 18:03:20 GMT
They should have made that clear by putting a big warning on the advertising material, it would have sold loads more seats. Surprised that given the involvement of Martin Crimp people aren't waiting for reviews of this before booking. Oh, I most certainly am waiting for that very reason! Me too. Plus I’ve seen it a few times before, it’s not a great play, you sort of think it must be because it’s so famous but in reality it’s a bit dull. |
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Post by zahidf on Nov 24, 2019 13:59:35 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2019 20:44:51 GMT
NT Live screening on 20th February
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2019 20:50:30 GMT
Honestly, this looking boring. Handheld microphones... Groundbreaking. I wish Jamie Lloyd would do something else for a change. I bet the set will be entirely grey/blue. YAWN.
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Post by anactualbunny on Nov 27, 2019 8:45:18 GMT
Saw the pay what you can performance yesterday. The set looked unfinished and a bit boring, I know Jamie Lloyd favours minimalism but it felt a bit AmDram.
The play was very enjoyable and the audience seemed to love it.
Slight spoiler - mentioned earlier in this thread about nudity but there is no nudity in the show
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Post by Boob on Nov 27, 2019 23:13:19 GMT
Saw the pay what you can performance yesterday. The set looked unfinished and a bit boring, I know Jamie Lloyd favours minimalism but it felt a bit AmDram. The play was very enjoyable and the audience seemed to love it. Slight spoiler - mentioned earlier in this thread about nudity but there is no nudity in the show Maybe because the set is by Soutra Gilmour and she’s opening at least three shows in London in the same month?! |
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Post by theoracle on Dec 3, 2019 9:03:17 GMT
So I saw this last night and I still can’t make up my mind whether this was trying too hard to appeal to a younger crowd or was this a successful reinvention of Edmond Rostand’s classic play. I won’t lie, there are moments of actual genius in Martin Crimps adaptation such as during Cyranos first love letter to Roxanne, who by the way was also brilliant. At other times however, I was confused by the racking and the setting of the piece. Is Cyrano a soldier, a gangster or a rebel student genius? It’s very clearly a Jamie Lloyd piece with the minimalist staging and hand held mics but how effectively this works for this piece is very much up for debate
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Post by sydneyboi on Dec 3, 2019 9:13:15 GMT
Hello Peeps, Please can somebody advise the running time, or the time that it finished? Thank you  |
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Post by argon on Dec 3, 2019 18:24:25 GMT
Hello Peeps, Please can somebody advise the running time, or the time that it finished? Thank you Started @ 7.38 Finished @ 10.32 Millennials aplenty McAvoy was good the production didn't impress |
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Post by Dave B on Dec 4, 2019 10:17:11 GMT
McAvoy is very good, as are most of the cast. The production.... yikes. I was actively bored a lot in the first half. After the interval, there was a small but notable number of empty seats, not just up in the nosebleeds where we were (front row upper circle) but down in the much higher priced stalls.
It is very funny at times but drifts all over the place.
I don't know if it was just last night but I found the sound to be less than great it seemed to just be McAvoy and yes in particular at his quieter moments but there were several points where I couldn't make out his words at all.
My better half enjoyed it a lot more than I did so I could be entirely wrong. I am looking forward to the reviews, maybe it all just flew over my head and it'll be a smash hit....
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Post by maggiem on Dec 9, 2019 11:28:35 GMT
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Post by ruperto on Dec 10, 2019 0:15:29 GMT
Just out from this. Blimey o Riley... Well, it’s always great to see James McAvoy on stage - I still have fond memories of him crashing into my feet while he was having a fight in The Ruling Class at the Trafalgar Studios a few years back. And Martin Crimp’s new version of Cyrano is, quite often, very witty and a pleasure to listen to. But by god, this was a bit of a slog - though naturally the critics are having orgasms. It’s punishingly modish - having watched Noah Baumbach’s brilliant film Marriage Story on Netflix yesterday, this looked a bit like the sort of thing that Adam Driver’s avant-garde Brooklyn theatre director would put on. Which for some people might be a recommendation... (Or maybe it’s the play that the film director Carson Clay in Mr Bean’s Holiday would stage if he moved into theatre). As we near the end of this theatrical year, can we maybe have a moratorium on ugly, bare wooden sets, school plastic chairs and - one of this year’s repeat offenders - hand-held microphones? Please?
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Post by MrBraithwaite on Dec 10, 2019 8:13:12 GMT
God, am I glad I didn't book this. This looks exactly as it could be a production at any German ciy theater by some hip new director. And that's what I always find amusing about British directors praising German theatre...if you are a subscriber and have seen the fiftieth production like this, you long for a production of Cyrano with costumes and set to speak of and a Cyrano with a long nose. Or as German comedian Loriot said it once (about the Ring-cycle): "I have seen so many Wotans with a briefcase, I would love to see one with a spear."  |
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Post by ruperto on Dec 10, 2019 11:14:52 GMT
Yes, I think you're more likely to like this if you liked, say, Grief is the Thing With Feathers at the Barbican or Summer and Smoke at the Almeida/West End - and I know a lot of people did really like those two shows.
For me, as a production, this Cyrano is aggressively non-traditional, to the point that it felt a little like it had been calculatedly designed to provoke, which for some reason I found irritating. It was also very in love with itself (which is not a crime, I know).
The last in-my-opinion 5-star play I saw was Hansard at the National, so maybe I'm just too old for shows like this! After last night, I felt like I needed to restore my equilibrium by watching an old-fashioned drawing room drama...
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Post by jaqs on Dec 16, 2019 7:09:20 GMT
I really quite enjoyed it. Didn’t mind the microphones or bare stage. Thought the actors were all very good. Yes it’s a bit too down with the kids at times but I still had a good time.
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