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Post by zahidf on Sept 2, 2020 9:05:04 GMT
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Post by lynette on Sept 6, 2020 12:40:49 GMT
Quality
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Post by barrowside on Sept 7, 2020 21:17:42 GMT
This is a dilemma. I love Brian Friel but have never seen Faith Healer. I missed out on seeing Donal McCann in the early 1990s due to snow on the evening in question. I was due to see it at The Abbey this spring with Aidan Gillen, Niamh Cusack and Nigel Lindsay before lockdown cancelled it. I have to decide now do I watch this or wait to see it for the first time live in the theatre. I believe its a very special play in the right hands.
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Post by MrBraithwaite on Sept 8, 2020 7:29:06 GMT
Joined the queue for fun at some point yesterday with number 1899, waited more than an hour, the little man walked, but the number 1899 didn't count down. When I was allowed to go to the website, I got an error message. Re-joined with number 4000+. God, what fun is real theatre...  |
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Post by crowblack on Sept 8, 2020 9:16:00 GMT
I joined at 9.30 using two servers, got in the 700s for both, got through after 50 mins or so and got a £10 ticket but had a bit of trouble checking out.
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Post by viserys on Sept 8, 2020 10:16:13 GMT
As it's streamed, there's no limit to tickets, really. I started around 2,000 in the queue, waited an hour, then booked my £10 ticket.
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Post by MrBraithwaite on Sept 8, 2020 12:30:22 GMT
There is no limit to tickets for a stream, but the Old Vic always said that they would sell only as many tickets as there were seats in the theatre, which is what I mocked before. Why else would you need a sale date with priority sale and queue otherwise...
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Post by viserys on Sept 8, 2020 13:10:20 GMT
Marketing 101: Create buzz and demand.
They would be incredibly stupid to not sell as many tickets as they can in these dire times when they badly need the income. The FAQ also state clearly that everyone will have the same view, no matter how much they've paid for the ticket. They just hope that people will be generous by forking out £30 or £40.
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Post by rumbledoll on Sept 10, 2020 6:30:26 GMT
Still, they do have limit on 10 and 20 quid tickets..
For me this time was painless and quick!
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Post by lynette on Sept 10, 2020 16:55:22 GMT
I csn do the zooming thing but it is difficult for my OH to see on my iPad and his laptop isn’t much bigger but he uses it on a desk in front of him so not easily portable to a comfy setting. I can watch You tube too on my super smart tv but does anyone know how I could get a zoom onto the tv screen? I know it is something about syncing the devices but i am not very teccy. Anyone help? If I could do this them the streamed onto zoom stuff out there would be very much more appealing.
To avoid boring the cognoscenti, could you DM me if you can help. Ta.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2020 20:29:49 GMT
They give a couple of options here - www.oldvictheatre.com/news/2020/07/guide-to-zoomThe simplest (assuming your laptop and TV both have an HDMI socket) is to connect your laptop to the TV using an HDMI cable. Then you are basically just using your TV as an external monitor on your laptop. Alternative is to get a Chromecast (which costs about £30) - this would let you stream from your laptop or iPad using the Zoom app. |
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Post by lynette on Sept 13, 2020 10:39:52 GMT
They give a couple of options here - www.oldvictheatre.com/news/2020/07/guide-to-zoomThe simplest (assuming your laptop and TV both have an HDMI socket) is to connect your laptop to the TV using an HDMI cable. Then you are basically just using your TV as an external monitor on your laptop. Alternative is to get a Chromecast (which costs about £30) - this would let you stream from your laptop or iPad using the Zoom app. Ta, mate. I will check out both options. |
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Post by peggs on Sept 14, 2020 17:51:04 GMT
I'm so going to forget I have a ticket for this.
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Post by barelyathletic on Sept 17, 2020 11:22:10 GMT
They do a good job of building the excitement and buzz of live theatre in the fifteen minutes before, and I thought Michael Sheen was quite brilliant in this but... I gave up after the second monologue. It's just all too grim at the moment and this was remorselessly bleak, terribly terribly wordy and static. I just found it a really hard watch and couldn't concentrate even though I was sitting in a dark room,just me and the laptop. I suddenly remembered half way through why I've never bothered with this live. Time for the Old Vic to do something a little lighter in this series perhaps?
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Post by drmaplewood on Sept 18, 2020 8:04:46 GMT
Sorry to be that guy but can anyone let me know the running time please?
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Post by crowblack on Sept 18, 2020 8:44:53 GMT
Sorry to be that guy but can anyone let me know the running time please? It finished about 9.55, though it didn't have an interval, just brief gaps for the set/scene changes. |
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Post by drmaplewood on Sept 18, 2020 11:50:12 GMT
Sorry to be that guy but can anyone let me know the running time please? It finished about 9.55, though it didn't have an interval, just brief gaps for the set/scene changes. Oh blimey, that's quite long. Sure it was only 2 hrs or so with interval at the Donmar, have they added anything? |
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Post by peggs on Sept 18, 2020 11:58:10 GMT
I don't think so. Couple minute introduction, I guess few minutes over all between monologues gaps, just played bit slower I guess. Didn't seem particularly long or slow once I'd bedded in.
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Post by crowblack on Sept 18, 2020 14:06:33 GMT
Didn't seem particularly long or slow once I'd bedded in. It did for us, partly because it was so remorselessly downbeat! It's great to have live theatre back, but I do wish the OV would choose more upbeat stories. |
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Post by ceebee on Sept 18, 2020 21:00:14 GMT
I've just watched this and thought it was excellent. A fabulous way to spend a couple of hours. Well worth it!
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Post by floorshow on Sept 18, 2020 21:18:02 GMT
I thoroughly enjoyed what I saw but missed everything after Teddy and the copper, the downside of watching from home and the possibility of interruptions..
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Post by peggs on Sept 19, 2020 9:10:24 GMT
Was such an odd experience watching this, the bell warnings and pre crowd noise made me grin then had to keep reminding self it was live and not just another youtube re run. So took a while to relax into it but the intimacy was great and of course most people in the old vic would never be that close up.
Was worried I'd be interrupted, relieved not to be. I'd do it again.
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Post by NeilVHughes on Sept 19, 2020 10:03:02 GMT
After a weekend of live Theatre last week just couldn’t get into this as the glass barrier was impossible to break through and my attention continuously wavered.
Missing that invisible thread that links the audience and actor.
Have another two show day today to top up my live Theatre tank before the inevitable lockdown returns, hopefully after the 3rd Oct as I have the remaining 2 Talking Heads booked at the Bridge on that day. (selfish and maybe reckless I know)
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Post by ceebee on Sept 19, 2020 13:00:10 GMT
After a weekend of live Theatre last week just couldn’t get into this as the glass barrier was impossible to break through and my attention continuously wavered. Missing that invisible thread that links the audience and actor. Have another two show day today to top up my live Theatre tank before the inevitable lockdown returns, hopefully after the 3rd Oct as I have the remaining 2 Talking Heads booked at the Bridge on that day. (selfish and maybe reckless I know) Nope, I've had the same selfish reckless thoughts! |
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Post by marob on Sept 19, 2020 18:44:13 GMT
I posted in the Three Kings thread that I was going to give this one a wide berth, but thanks lynette for telling me to give it a go, as I actually really enjoyed it. |
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