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Post by Dave B on May 26, 2022 9:36:26 GMT
Looks to be on-sale to Theatrecard members now, I'm able to get to the checkout. Just debating prices vs waiting vs using Theatretokens etc etc.
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Post by mkb on May 26, 2022 9:56:37 GMT
Just re-booked £82.50 seats using my £165.00 credit voucher and was made to pay an additional £3.80 "transaction fee" despite being a Theatrecard member.
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Post by mistressjojo on May 26, 2022 10:09:42 GMT
I didn't get the email as a 'previous ticketholder' and complained.
They sent me a link which worked to book tickets, but wouldn't let me use my account credit.
Just happy that it's actually happening when I'll be in London!
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Post by jampot on May 26, 2022 11:08:12 GMT
Just re-booked £82.50 seats using my £165.00 credit voucher and was made to pay an additional £3.80 "transaction fee" despite being a Theatrecard member. If you send a dm to them with details they will refund you.. |
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Post by theatremiss on May 26, 2022 16:26:30 GMT
I rang up to use my credit. I complained about being charged a booking fee when an ATG Member and they took the fee off there and then. It seems an age since I made the original booking
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Post by oxfordsimon on Jun 9, 2022 17:49:16 GMT
The marketing for this is describing it as a reimagining of the original.
Anyone heard whisper of what this might entail as it seems so specific a text in terms of setting, content and character that trying to deviate too far from that would rather defeat the entire point of the play.
Or perhaps it is just lazy marketing hype
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Post by mistressjojo on Jul 22, 2022 11:12:33 GMT
Sharon Small now playing Helen. Would seem Fenella Woollgar couldn't make it, which is a shame.
Having Sharon as the wife now makes me wonder if she & DT will using their real accents.
And the booking page now showing this as 'no interval' .
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Post by mistressjojo on Sept 22, 2022 0:40:03 GMT
Now opening early on 5th October.
And the booking page has been updated to 'this play has an interval' . So maybe they have added something or stretched some scenes out , as it's quite short on paper ?
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Post by lightinthedarkness on Sept 24, 2022 11:25:38 GMT
Anyone heard anything regarding day seats/rush/lottery for this?
I’ve become very limited to when I can see it (4 shows), and those dates are already nearly sold out. If there aren’t going to be alternatives I may have to just go for it and get a pretty expensive seat…
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Post by Mark on Sept 24, 2022 12:13:02 GMT
Anyone heard anything regarding day seats/rush/lottery for this? I’ve become very limited to when I can see it (4 shows), and those dates are already nearly sold out. If there aren’t going to be alternatives I may have to just go for it and get a pretty expensive seat… Usually not announced until performances start, so if your dates are very limited it might be an idea. They do sell SRO at that venue normally if that may be an option for you. |
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Post by lightinthedarkness on Sept 24, 2022 12:59:39 GMT
Anyone heard anything regarding day seats/rush/lottery for this? I’ve become very limited to when I can see it (4 shows), and those dates are already nearly sold out. If there aren’t going to be alternatives I may have to just go for it and get a pretty expensive seat… Usually not announced until performances start, so if your dates are very limited it might be an idea. They do sell SRO at that venue normally if that may be an option for you. Thanks! Last time I stood for a play I can’t say I enjoyed it a whole lot, so good to know that’s usually what they do Just had another quick browse of my dates and found a decent £25 one, so I think I’ll grab that instead of waiting and hoping! |
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Post by mistressjojo on Sept 25, 2022 6:44:30 GMT
Anyone heard anything regarding day seats/rush/lottery for this? I’ve become very limited to when I can see it (4 shows), and those dates are already nearly sold out. If there aren’t going to be alternatives I may have to just go for it and get a pretty expensive seat… They've just announced cheap seats for essential workers for every show, if that helps at all? |
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Post by Mark on Sept 25, 2022 9:13:33 GMT
Anyone heard anything regarding day seats/rush/lottery for this? I’ve become very limited to when I can see it (4 shows), and those dates are already nearly sold out. If there aren’t going to be alternatives I may have to just go for it and get a pretty expensive seat… They've just announced cheap seats for essential workers for every show, if that helps at all? How the times have changed as what defines as a key worker. Just two years ago it was supermarket and transport workers. Now it’s educational psychologists and traffic officers. goodtheplay.com/10-key-worker-tickets/ |
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Post by zahidf on Sept 27, 2022 11:07:21 GMT
They've just announced cheap seats for essential workers for every show, if that helps at all? How the times have changed as what defines as a key worker. Just two years ago it was supermarket and transport workers. Now it’s educational psychologists and traffic officers. goodtheplay.com/10-key-worker-tickets/This working for anyone? |
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Post by orchidman on Sept 27, 2022 11:11:35 GMT
How the times have changed as what defines as a key worker. Just two years ago it was supermarket and transport workers. Now it’s educational psychologists and traffic officers. goodtheplay.com/10-key-worker-tickets/This working for anyone? Not for me |
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Post by zahidf on Sept 27, 2022 11:47:10 GMT
Keyworker link working now
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Post by Mark on Sept 27, 2022 12:05:26 GMT
Very thankful my sister is a secondary school teacher! Row B stalls secured.
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Post by Jonnyboy on Sept 27, 2022 18:06:37 GMT
Well this seems unfair. I can now get two key worker seats due to working in the NHS but I’ve already paid full whack. I wonder if they’d refund me??
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Post by Steve on Oct 12, 2022 16:58:39 GMT
This is a dark, pared down production of CP Taylor's play, which attempts to answer the question of how good men allow bad things to happen, by focusing laser-like on the mind of David Tennant's John Halder. The play is exposed as one that asks but does not answer questions, which frustrated me a bit, but I love that the questions are asked. On the plus side, Tennant is unforgettably haunting and convincing as a man who goes along with things, and Elliot Levey and Sharon Small provide him with outstanding support. Some spoilers follow. . . If you look at the cast list, you can guess Dominic Cooke's re-imagining of this play. By and large, he casts Elliot Levey as all the male characters and Sharon Small as all the female characters, and he places the characters into a claustrophic set that resembles a prison cell, the mood of which is altered by lighting. The effect, so different from prior productions with a fuller cast, is to accentuate a study of this one "good" man's mind, and his potential seduction by evil, as effectively he is the only constant for the audience, and the set gives him nowhere to hide. It is a brilliantly effective directorial approach, magnifying everything about Tennant's Halder, by denying us focus elsewhere, thus forcing us to contemplate his motivations, as his life is slowly drawn towards the machinations of the Nazis. It is not an open exploration of his mind-state, as one implication of all the other characters being somewhat interchangeable might be that Halder himself sees people as interchangeable, as if this interchangeability erupts from Tennant's Halder's own narcissistic psyche. It is to Elliot Levey's credit that his principal character, Maurice (Halder's best friend), comes across so distinctly and engagingly, as am intelligent, decent but self-hating everyman, given the other characters he plays. Although I don't feel the play actually answers any questions about why good people do bad things (for that, a study of the hold that propaganda and fear, distraction and tribal nationalism have, over the mind of many Russians living under Putin, might prove more fruitful), I do feel this production is a powerful portrait of a seemingly inevitable descent of one narcissistic dreamer into degeneracy. Unsatisfying philosphically, the direction and acting (and Tennant sings too!) are fascinating, and have me constantly thinking about the production, so this gets 3 and a half stars from me.  |
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Post by lonlad on Oct 12, 2022 22:57:38 GMT
Simply tremendous: I've seen all three major London productions of this play (alan howard, charles dance, now david tennant) and this one is by some measure the best, not least because Tennant uniquely amongst the three men plays goodness sliding into its opposite: a terrifying trajectory made more so by the hallucinatory approach taken by the production and a singularly brilliant design team in which the set, lighting and especially sound conjoin to overwhelming effect. Howard was great to watch (that voice!) but played the ending from the beginning, and Dance was more or less a nonentity in the role, alas.
Applause tonight seemed almost irrelevant at the end given the play's resonance with so much happening in the world at large just now. One wonders what it would be like to see this and CABARET on the same day. Not sure my nerves could take it, and I noticed Eliot Levey during the show tonight wiping away tears at one point. He wasn't the only one.
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Post by alessia on Oct 13, 2022 9:32:15 GMT
The prices for this are appalling...I wouldn't mind seeing it but not at for that much
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Post by bordeaux on Oct 13, 2022 9:35:22 GMT
Lovely to read these reviews. I must admit I wasn't going to go, having been slightly disappointed by the Michael Grandage/Charles Dance version at the Donmar in 1999 but will think again. Dominic Cooke really is on a roll - becoming the Howard Davies de nos jours in my view, coming up again and again with brilliant fresh productions of classic plays.
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Post by rumbledoll on Oct 13, 2022 9:50:02 GMT
The prices for this are appalling...I wouldn't mind seeing it but not at for that much Also the fact that they don’t even bother about day seats/rush/lottery or at least ANY discounts avail for general public really puts me off… Would live to see that too, but not for 100 quid in a restricted seat view.. |
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Post by bordeaux on Oct 13, 2022 13:06:22 GMT
It's fascinating: who's got £310 to spend, as a couple, on seeing a relatively little-known play from the early 1980s? And it's not as if David Tennant is a big Hollywood star who will only come over here once or twice in your theatre-going lifetime, an Al Pacino, say, or Dustin Hoffman. I'm not saying only rich people can go - I'll get £35 seats - but I am amazed at how many people are happy or at least willing to pay that price for this production.
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Post by Jon on Oct 13, 2022 13:09:31 GMT
People are forgetting it's show business, not show charity.
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