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Post by peggs on Sept 23, 2021 11:47:41 GMT
It better be flipping awful after all this.
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Post by asfound on Sept 23, 2021 11:52:22 GMT
Saw a whole bunch of front row tickets become available for matinee which doesn't seem to exist on the Almeida website calendar (13th October). Clicked them and - oh joy! - they are only £25 for NHS workers! Tried to add two to my basket only to get some nonsense error message about "your order is too complex". Tried again and they had all gone. Boo!
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Post by wannabedirector on Sept 23, 2021 11:57:36 GMT
Struggled with this today. Got over 2000 in the queue, but managed to get through on the phone just in time to get a ticket (after a lot of trying).
Am assuming that the half term performances are blocked off as part of Almeida for Free (as they did with Andrew Scott’s Hamlet and Summer and Smoke).
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Post by cavocado on Sept 23, 2021 12:20:51 GMT
Struggled with this today. Got over 2000 in the queue, but managed to get through on the phone just in time to get a ticket (after a lot of trying). Am assuming that the half term performances are blocked off as part of Almeida for Free (as they did with Andrew Scott’s Hamlet and Summer and Smoke). That's a very good reason. Credit to the Almeida for not cashing in on their star names. |
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Post by fiyerorocher on Sept 23, 2021 12:36:11 GMT
Managed to get a £10 ticket in the circle a few minutes ago - worth refreshing to see if the odd return pops up
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Post by ThereWillBeSun on Sept 23, 2021 12:48:23 GMT
Managed to get a £10 ticket in the circle a few minutes ago - worth refreshing to see if the odd return pops up which date please? thank you - well done! |
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Post by fiyerorocher on Sept 23, 2021 12:49:46 GMT
Managed to get a £10 ticket in the circle a few minutes ago - worth refreshing to see if the odd return pops up which date please? thank you - well done! Random Wednesday matinee in October - which I only realised was a matinee after I booked, so I'll be taking a day off work, it seems... |
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Post by lynette on Sept 23, 2021 14:07:15 GMT
which date please? thank you - well done! Random Wednesday matinee in October - which I only realised was a matinee after I booked, so I'll be taking a day off work, it seems... Working from Home which for us is ( or used to be ) the theatre… |
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Post by Forrest on Sept 23, 2021 22:16:18 GMT
I just came to say that, of course, I had a meeting at the exact time the tickets went on sale and I didn't manage to get one. By the time we finished talking, they were all long sold out.
I am beginning to think that me and James McArdle are not meant to meet at the Almeida after all... :( (...although I did bump into him and Ronan presumably going home from rehearsals the other day on Upper Street. That might be the closest I'll get to this production, it seems...)
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Post by jampot on Sept 28, 2021 16:11:14 GMT
First night off..
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Post by couldileaveyou on Sept 29, 2021 0:08:04 GMT
Sorry what does this mean? Has the first performance been cancelled? Yes, the performance supposed to take place on October 1st has been cancelled |
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Post by theoracle on Oct 3, 2021 20:37:09 GMT
Did anyone have a chance to see this last night? Could someone report a running time please?
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Post by altamont on Oct 3, 2021 21:03:34 GMT
All I've picked up from Twitter is that there is an interval
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Post by foolswhodream on Oct 4, 2021 22:02:23 GMT
Did anyone have a chance to see this last night? Could someone report a running time please? Finished about 10:10pm this evening! |
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Post by theoracle on Oct 4, 2021 22:54:15 GMT
Did anyone have a chance to see this last night? Could someone report a running time please? Finished about 10:10pm this evening! Thanks for this. I was there too this evening and thoroughly enjoyed it. James McArdle is extraordinarily articulate on stage and breathed life into Macbeth. Naturally he had great chemistry with Saoirse who also delivered a fine performance. I actually felt the whole cast did a great job and Yael Farber has done a fantastic job on the material. It certainly didn’t feel like 3hrs 10mins but I had to run out the door to catch a train from Paddington. |
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Post by oxfordsimon on Oct 5, 2021 14:42:09 GMT
3 hours 10 for a Macbeth?  ? The text is 2 hours, possibly 2 hours 20. How??? |
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Post by NeilVHughes on Oct 5, 2021 14:55:53 GMT
My thoughts, the only 3hr Macbeth I have seen was the Ningawa and that was because the Cherry Blossom was as much an integral character as Macbeth and the staging was unbelievably impressive.
A play that works best when staged straight through without an interval and an ~2hr running time.
Intrigued to see how they make it last 3hrs but cannot see how it can be done without becoming turgid as it is a play that requires pace to build tension as the tragedy unfolds.
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Post by couldileaveyou on Oct 5, 2021 15:02:32 GMT
I'm ready to bet there's a lot of ritualistic stuff going on
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Post by Jan on Oct 5, 2021 15:18:00 GMT
3 hours 10 for a Macbeth? ? The text is 2 hours, possibly 2 hours 20. How??? At one time Katie Mitchell was planning a production of Macbeth. I bet she could have pushed the running time up to 3:45 easily. |
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Post by theatrefan77 on Oct 5, 2021 16:09:53 GMT
Good to hear some positive things. My friend didn't like it much, although he praised the acting. He doesn't like Yael Farber style though and thought that this production is worse and more ill conceived that her Salome at the National theatre.
I'll reserve my judgement until I see it |
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Post by Jon on Oct 5, 2021 22:00:41 GMT
Considering Yael Farber's production of The Crucible was 3 hours 45 minutes when I saw it, 3 hours 10 minutes doesn't sound as bad!
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Post by couldileaveyou on Oct 6, 2021 14:38:50 GMT
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Post by peggs on Oct 6, 2021 19:32:40 GMT
And some for tomorrow's matinee at range of prices.
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Post by stevemar on Oct 7, 2021 20:07:44 GMT
This was excellent - a full throttle elemental production with Lady Macbeth centre stage and real connection between the two characters. Saoirse Ronan and James McArdle superb. Yes, entirely with the Yael Farber signature direction, but particularly effective on the smaller Almeida stage. Surpassed my expectations given that Macbeth has never been a satisfactory play for me.
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Post by londonpostie on Oct 7, 2021 21:13:45 GMT
I've got a different starting point for this; it's interesting when you have a talented actress who hasn't done Shakespeare before at all (no drama school to force her!), who is playing a mature married woman for the first time in her career, on the London stage for the first time aaaaaaand isn't third player in Hamlet or third witch in Macbeth but takes on the role of ... Lady Macbeth.
Quite the challenge then for her and, it turns out, for the director and production.
fwiw, I liked Yael Farber's aesthetic very much. Otherwise, I'm going to think on this ...
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