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Post by couldileaveyou on Mar 17, 2021 11:28:52 GMT
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Post by bordeaux on Mar 17, 2021 11:41:36 GMT
Great news!
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Post by lynette on Mar 17, 2021 15:36:50 GMT
This will be good. Someone else did it a while ago - Stephen Dillane was it, someone will remember. It was brilliant. Will def tempt me into a theatre.
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Post by smallperson on Mar 18, 2021 10:09:43 GMT
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Post by smallperson on Mar 18, 2021 10:11:38 GMT
Chard Witlow: Brilliant parody by Henry Reid read by Dylan Thomas!
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Post by lynette on Mar 20, 2021 13:30:58 GMT
Yep that was it. Can’t remember which date I saw/heard it. Eliot has dramatic skills, no doubt, skills which funnily enough come through in this, with skilled actor, in some ways more than in his actual plays. |
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Post by lynette on Mar 20, 2021 13:36:30 GMT
Chard Witlow: Brilliant parody by Henry Reid read by Dylan Thomas! Brilliant of course. All sorts of things to say about this like I wish I had heard it at uni when trying to decipher the poetry or later when I was trying to teach it. Can you imagine,I was teaching this to a sixth form comp group who didn't know anything about Christianity ( I swear I explained the whole of European Christianity in twenty minutes) let alone had ever read anything like it despite my best ministrations at the ‘O’ level teaching the year before. But don’t let me put you off. On the contrary, go and be mesmerised. You will be thinking of the lines in years to come. |
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Post by bordeaux on May 27, 2021 9:06:49 GMT
I enjoyed this very much in Bath last night despite having the worst seat in the auditorium - required some craning of head to see Fiennes from time to timeas I was in the slips. Great to be in the theatre, and to be made to listen hard to demanding material. It's simply staged - a couple of chairs, a desk, two big slabs at the back of the stage which are occasionally moved. Of course a lot depends on whether you like Fiennes and Eliot, or rather the later Eliot of these quartets; the religiosity, the fondness for paradox are very parody-able - see above. There is a touch of lugubriousness about Fiennes early on but that is the nature of the material. He makes the poems as clear as they can be and the shifting moods come across very well.
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Post by joem on Jun 16, 2021 19:27:43 GMT
Enjoyable. Fiennes makes the text come to life with a clear and expressive delivery.
Hot day in Oxford, the place a mixture of those in love with life and those who are afraid of it.
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Post by fossil on Jun 23, 2021 16:27:17 GMT
Cambridge Arts Theatre have just added several extra performances. These are all matinees. Good news for me as previously only evening performances were available which I was reluctant to book.
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Post by couldileaveyou on Jul 1, 2021 9:31:04 GMT
Transferring to the Harold Pinter Theatre from Nov. 18 to Dec. 18
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Post by lynette on Jul 1, 2021 12:04:26 GMT
Transferring to the Harold Pinter Theatre from Nov. 18 to Dec. 18 Yep just booked for 27 Nov matinee, so nice tea to follow… let’s hope eh? Pricey, pricey……and then it says limited leg room! But I booked end of a row so I’m hoping at least one of us can put a leg somewhere. 🤪 |
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Post by lynette on Sept 22, 2021 23:04:48 GMT
Transferring to the Harold Pinter Theatre from Nov. 18 to Dec. 18 Yep just booked for 27 Nov matinee, so nice tea to follow… let’s hope eh? Pricey, pricey……and then it says limited leg room! But I booked end of a row so I’m hoping at least one of us can put a leg somewhere. 🤪 Just to add that I’m thinking all the punters will be over 70 and so triple jabbed, eh? 😁 |
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Post by Jan on Sept 23, 2021 6:46:12 GMT
Transferring to the Harold Pinter Theatre from Nov. 18 to Dec. 18 Pricey, pricey……and then it says limited leg room! But I booked end of a row so I’m hoping at least one of us can put a leg somewhere. 🤪 I wouldn't mind seeing old Rigsby in this but I'm guessing that TodayTix will have very cheap Rush or Day tickets, it is pretty standard for this venue even for sold-out shows like the Toby Jones "Uncle Vanya". |
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Post by londonpostie on Sept 23, 2021 13:55:17 GMT
If anyone gets a sniff of cheaper pricing, could you please mention it on here  |
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Post by Jan on Sept 23, 2021 14:07:36 GMT
If anyone gets a sniff of cheaper pricing, could you please mention it on here Only after I secure a cheap ticket for myself. £155 for a stalls seat for a one-man show that lasts 1:15. This will be on TodayTix offer no problem. |
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Post by Dave B on Sept 23, 2021 14:25:19 GMT
Looking at my bookings, I booked this back in July through LoveTheatre (there might have been an offer at the time, I don't recall). Two restricted view tickets in row A of Royal Circle were £22.80 each. They don't seem on sale now maybe worth keeping an eye out there? Short, one man show I can't imagine the seats will be that bad... (I hope).
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Post by lynette on Nov 1, 2021 20:00:43 GMT
Very puzzled. Having now found the booking, or rather been told what it is by the love theatre people I see that I happily booked something saying limited leg room, seats C stalls 20/21.my OH now wants to make sure he can actually sit there!
But when I look at the seating plan they are at the end of a row and have limited sight which i dont mind for this particular show as it is one bloke who i hope will walk about a bit.
So I’m wondering if any of you guys has been to this at the Harold Pinter and can tell me if the leg room has been compromised or is it a mistake and they mean sight lines?Or shall I suffer a difficult evening…..
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Post by Jan on Nov 1, 2021 21:03:02 GMT
Very puzzled. Having now found the booking, or rather been told what it is by the love theatre people I see that I happily booked something saying limited leg room, seats C stalls 20/21.my OH now wants to make sure he can actually sit there! But when I look at the seating plan they are at the end of a row and have limited sight which i dont mind for this particular show as it is one bloke who i hope will walk about a bit. So I’m wondering if any of you guys has been to this at the Harold Pinter and can tell me if the leg room has been compromised or is it a mistake and they mean sight lines?Or shall I suffer a difficult evening….. Never had a legroom problem at this theatre but who knows - quite a good innovation if they’re warning you, they should be like the airlines and give precise measurements of seat spacing. Worst legroom in London bar none is the Weston Theatre at the Museum of London (not used for theatrical events thank goodness). |
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Post by couldileaveyou on Nov 4, 2021 2:20:23 GMT
Very puzzled. Having now found the booking, or rather been told what it is by the love theatre people I see that I happily booked something saying limited leg room, seats C stalls 20/21.my OH now wants to make sure he can actually sit there! But when I look at the seating plan they are at the end of a row and have limited sight which i dont mind for this particular show as it is one bloke who i hope will walk about a bit. So I’m wondering if any of you guys has been to this at the Harold Pinter and can tell me if the leg room has been compromised or is it a mistake and they mean sight lines?Or shall I suffer a difficult evening….. Yeah I sat at C21, which is just behind a pillar. The view is perfect but I found the legroom very limited - and I'm just 5'7". For the three hours of Virginia Woolf it was quite excruciating but this is shorter so it might be more bearable |
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Post by lynette on Nov 4, 2021 19:58:28 GMT
Thanks for that. I have asked theatre about it , waiting for response. I will prob be ok with it.
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Post by Mark on Nov 10, 2021 11:40:59 GMT
Did they not sell the gallery for this? Or did they all go in the initial sales?
Lots of availability for this, not surprising with the cheapest ticket being £54
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Post by lynette on Nov 10, 2021 23:21:02 GMT
They changed my tix - had to pay more. What the ? Last time , last time, I tell you. No refunds, no credit.
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Post by lynette on Nov 22, 2021 18:26:10 GMT
Me again. I apologise. Just want to ask you guys who have been to this ( anybody) in London that is, how the checking is done for the covid stuff. They are asking for proof of vaccination etc. One of us has covid pass on phone, t’other doesn’t, but has letter from NHS. And it isn’t actually clear if the vaccination status is 2 or 3 jabs. Some people would only have had one cos of their age. So v unclear.
Does it mean hanging about while they gawp at the phone and documents or like other places do they just wave you in? Any advice welcome. TA
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Post by zahidf on Nov 22, 2021 23:40:08 GMT
Me again. I apologise. Just want to ask you guys who have been to this ( anybody) in London that is, how the checking is done for the covid stuff. They are asking for proof of vaccination etc. One of us has covid pass on phone, t’other doesn’t, but has letter from NHS. And it isn’t actually clear if the vaccination status is 2 or 3 jabs. Some people would only have had one cos of their age. So v unclear. Does it mean hanging about while they gawp at the phone and documents or like other places do they just wave you in? Any advice welcome. TA It's for 2 jabs They pretty much wave you in after checking the date on the app. |
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