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Post by Dave B on Aug 25, 2021 8:34:59 GMT
Stockard Channing(!) and Rebecca Night just announced.
22 Oct - 4 Dec 2021
General booking Sept 1.
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Post by londonpostie on Aug 25, 2021 9:00:43 GMT
'Tell me more, tell me more .... '
They don't mind a two-hander there, do they.
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Post by cavocado on Aug 26, 2021 13:34:36 GMT
I quite like the sound of this, but I am even more interested in seeing Peggy For You with Tamsin Greig.
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Post by anthony40 on Aug 26, 2021 15:20:03 GMT
I am there. The theatre is about a 20 minute walk for me.
(Despite her obvious plastic surgery) Rizzo hanging out in my neighbourhood; there are worse things I could do!
See what I did there?
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Post by theatrelover123 on Aug 26, 2021 15:29:24 GMT
I am there. The theatre is about a 20 minute walk for me. (Despite her obvious plastic surgery) Rizzo hanging out in my neighbourhood; there are worse things I could do! See what I did there? No |
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Post by anthony40 on Aug 26, 2021 15:36:43 GMT
I am there. The theatre is about a 20 minute walk for me. (Despite her obvious plastic surgery) Rizzo hanging out in my neighbourhood; there are worse things I could do! See what I did there? No There Are Worse Things I Could Do is the song that she sings as Rizzo in Grease |
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Post by TallPaul on Aug 26, 2021 15:46:47 GMT
I am even more interested in seeing Peggy For You with Tamsin Greig. In a case of life imitating art, Janet Plater, Alan's daughter, became an agent. And in a case of art imitating life, or something like that, she's also a playwright. 🙂 |
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Post by cavocado on Aug 26, 2021 16:08:59 GMT
Thanks for the book recommendation kit66 - I'll look out for a copy.
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Post by Jon on Aug 26, 2021 18:31:42 GMT
I'm only aware of 'night Mother because it was parodied by Forbidden Broadway,
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Post by mkb on Aug 26, 2021 21:44:13 GMT
Looking forward to these. Have booked my ticket for both 'night, Mother and Peggy for You.
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Post by londonpostie on Sept 1, 2021 9:08:07 GMT
Public booking opened early - suggest those interested get on it ..
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Post by vickyg on Sept 20, 2021 14:32:28 GMT
Does anyone who has been to the Hampstead before know why row M in the arcade is cheaper than row N? I'm booking a christmas present for a friend and I to take a trip but I don't want to give her a no leg room experience or anything.
Thanks in advance!
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Post by Mark on Sept 20, 2021 23:56:31 GMT
Does anyone who has been to the Hampstead before know why row M in the arcade is cheaper than row N? I'm booking a christmas present for a friend and I to take a trip but I don't want to give her a no leg room experience or anything. Thanks in advance! It’s not tiered. So you’re pretty much gonna be looking at the back of someone’s head. Wasn’t an issue when I saw the memory of water as the seats Infront were left empty for social distancing but I did think it would be a bit of an annoyance if someone had been sat in front. |
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Post by vickyg on Sept 21, 2021 12:25:38 GMT
Thanks very much Mark and kit66 I have bought the more expensive ones (big spender, obviously) as it's Christmas and my friend is short! |
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Post by justfran on Sept 24, 2021 17:18:22 GMT
Stockard Channing is a guest on The One Show this evening at 7pm.
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Post by pledge on Oct 23, 2021 21:50:29 GMT
Oddly uninvolving: it can be a shattering play, but above all it's a small-scale intimate piece which depends on a sense of claustrophobia: on a huge empty set on a (comparatively) huge stage the play looked a bit lost. Worse, somehow the production never quite caught fire - something was not quite right with the chemistry of casting, design and direction -t never quite adds up to the sum of its parts. I wouldn't say Stockard Channing exactly walked through her role, but I've definitely seen it played with more involvement, while to my mind Rebecca Night never really conveyed the underlying despair of her character: I know it's all presented in a deliberately matter-of-fact manner, but the best performances hint at an overwhelming darkness beneath. It's revealing that at a couple of the most intense moments someone next to me giggled rather than gasped, and the final climax felt, well, anti-climactic. A textbook example, I suspect, of how a production can look promising on paper, but then not quite come to life...Having said that, plenty of cheers at the curtain call, but a lot of shaking heads on the way out...
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Post by anthony40 on Oct 24, 2021 12:00:04 GMT
I am seeing this on Tuesday night
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Post by zahidf on Oct 24, 2021 16:14:20 GMT
What's the running time for this please?
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Post by Dave B on Oct 24, 2021 16:28:06 GMT
What's the running time for this please? Per today's 'Your Visit to Hampstead Theatre' email.
The show will start at 7.30pm and is 1 hour 20 minutes long, without an interval.
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Post by londonpostie on Oct 24, 2021 17:35:33 GMT
What's the running time for this please? Per today's 'Your Visit to Hampstead Theatre' email.
The show will start at 7.30pm and is 1 hour 20 minutes long, without an interval.
If you're going tomorrow and spot someone in the foyer dressed suspiciouly as a postman, come and say hello  |
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Post by zahidf on Oct 24, 2021 19:23:10 GMT
What's the running time for this please? Per today's 'Your Visit to Hampstead Theatre' email.
The show will start at 7.30pm and is 1 hour 20 minutes long, without an interval.
Cool thanks! I'm going in a couple of weeks |
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Post by Mark on Oct 25, 2021 20:25:12 GMT
Adding to what pledge has already written, I didn’t connect with this too well at all and it took a while to get going, but then never really ignited.
This won the Pulitzer? If there’s an outstanding play in there I didn’t see it tonight unfortunately. Stockard Channing was fine, although I liked her more in Apologia. Rebecca Night though I thought was pretty one tone throughout and never really connected with the text.
Disappointing really. The quality of “acting” compared to Love and Other Acts is like chalk and cheese. I never truly believed this was mother and daughter speaking to each other.
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Post by londonpostie on Oct 25, 2021 21:11:50 GMT
tbh, I feel like we should be calling out these two-hander, second-rate space fillers - when you see the effort and committment at the Young Vic, Almedia, Royal Court, and elsewhere you wonder what the AD in places like this were doing during furlough, apart from walking the Goldendoodle on the Heath.
The West End is buzzing with full-scale musicals and here were with another two-hander the AD hopes no one will notice becasue it's got someone from america in it. Do me a favour.
Sorry, long day.
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Post by Forrest on Oct 25, 2021 21:21:08 GMT
Ah, don't be so hard on Hampstead, londonpostie: they also put on "Big Big Sky" (which was beautiful!) and are bringing in Katie Mitchell to direct! But, yes, when something is bad, it's bad. And, of course, I have a ticket to see this soon with a friend - which is a birthday present to make up for last year's birthday plans that fell through, even though my new birthday is just around the corner! |
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Post by londonpostie on Oct 25, 2021 21:29:28 GMT
@forrest It was like when the female relatives come round at Christmas and the women all sit at the kitchen table going through every aspect of eveyone's lives, and the men quietly retire to the next room to watch the football. In other words, you might like it |
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