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Post by n1david on May 25, 2016 11:21:40 GMT
23 Sep - 17 Dec The Tempest, Henry IV and Julius Caesar in rep - there will be special 3-show days (schedule to be announced) Directed by Phyllida Lloyd - revivals of the last two and new production of The Tempest In a new temporary theatre, seating 420 in the round. Public booking opens 15 June, Friends from 9 June Discount tickets for under 25s being sold weekly (like Front Row tickets) Link here: www.donmarwarehouse.com/whats-on/donmar-warehouse/donmar-kings-cross/2016/shakespeare-trilogyCast: Jade Anouka Sheila Atim Jackie Clune Shiloh Coke Karen Dunbar Clare Dunne Zainab Hasan Jennifer Joseph Martina Laird Sophie Stanton Sharon Rooney Carolina Valdés Harriet Walter |
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2016 11:26:05 GMT
MAN ALIVE but The Tempest is a boring play I've seen too much of recently. Couldn't they think of anything better?
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Post by stefy69 on May 25, 2016 11:29:35 GMT
Presumably this is the temporary theatre that will house Lazarus when it opens....
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Post by raiseitup on May 25, 2016 11:40:54 GMT
FREE tickets for under-25s, amazing.  Artists impression - looks like its going to be at the bottom of Kings Boulevard right next to the station with the King's Cross Theatre at the top. |
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2016 11:44:57 GMT
One hopes it works and they do get out to the non-theatre-going under-25s they're aimed at, rather than being snapped up by under-25s who already go to the theatre a lot and don't need to be enticed. But I don't know how you'd be able to spread the news to the non-theatre-goers without alerting existing theatre-goers first...
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Post by altamont on May 25, 2016 12:04:38 GMT
A slight correction - it is Henry IV not Henry VI
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Post by Jon on May 25, 2016 12:40:13 GMT
I assume The Tempest will be 2 hours no interval like the other two.
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Post by Phantom of London on May 25, 2016 13:03:17 GMT
Did the Donmar do the Tempest?
A lot of Shakespeare around at the moment and coming up.
Taming the Shrew - Globe
A Midsummer's Night Dream - Globe
Macbeth - Globe
The Merchant of Venice - Globe
King Lear - Barbican
Cymeline - Barbican
Romeo and Julliet - Garrick
Love Labour Lost - Haymarket
Much Ado About Nothing - Haymarket
King Lear - Old Vic
Richard III - Almedia
Hamlet - Almedia
Two Gentlemen of Verona - Sam Wannamaker Theatre
Tempest - Donmar/Kings Cross
Julius Caesar - Donmar/Kings Cross
Henry IV - Donmar/Kings Cross
Henry V - Regents Park Open Air
Twelfth Night - National
Have I missed any? No one can complain of lack of Shakespeare!
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2016 13:12:36 GMT
I see they are asking Old People to contribute money for a free ticket for Young People. Sod that for a game of soldiers! Nobody (other than my parents!) ever bought me theatre tickets when I was under 25.
I also think free (rather than cheap) tickets is a bad idea - do you value something if it's free? do you bother turning up? do you sit there taking selfies instead of watching the play? And 25% of tickets being given away seems a huge proportion.
Rant over!
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Post by n1david on May 25, 2016 13:15:22 GMT
Did the Donmar do the Tempest? The Tempest is a new production. |
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Post by n1david on May 25, 2016 13:18:15 GMT
I see they are asking Old People to contribute money for a free ticket for Young People. Sod that for a game of soldiers! Nobody (other than my parents!) ever bought me theatre tickets when I was under 25. I also think free (rather than cheap) tickets is a bad idea - do you value something if it's free? do you bother turning up? do you sit there taking selfies instead of watching the play? And 25% of tickets being given away seems a huge proportion. Rant over! Inclined to agree, especially about the free vs cheap - there is ample evidence that people don't value free stuff as much as what they have to pay for - so we might well see a bunch of empty seats as people were successful in the ballot and then don't bother on the night. That's why events like TV recordings are so over-ticketed to make sure that they end up with a full house. What concerns me is that this might be a trial for the same scheme at the Donmar itself... |
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2016 13:24:33 GMT
I see they are asking Old People to contribute money for a free ticket for Young People. Sod that for a game of soldiers! Nobody (other than my parents!) ever bought me theatre tickets when I was under 25. I also think free (rather than cheap) tickets is a bad idea - do you value something if it's free? do you bother turning up? do you sit there taking selfies instead of watching the play? And 25% of tickets being given away seems a huge proportion. Rant over! The Donmar as it is seats 251 people plus the capacity for 20 to stand. This new venue seats 420. Even if you do give 25% of the seats away for free (105 per performance) then that's still 315 left for the elderlies to purchase, which is still 44 seats more than a full-capacity-with-standing Donmar. So I agree it's a large proportion of this new venue, but I'd argue it shouldn't make much difference to us who are deemed elderly enough that clearly we have ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD to spend on theatre tickets. Hope there's a good range of prices... I don't like going over £20 a ticket, and with ATG booking fees involved, the Donmar is slowly heading towards "for special occasions only" territory. |
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Post by Flim Flam on May 25, 2016 13:33:04 GMT
Well, I will certainly miss my £10 Barclay tickets if they do replace it with this under 25 freebie scheme at the Donmar. Hopefully lots of the little darlings will not turn up, and this will scupper the scheme? Could we be that lucky? I am all for encouraging young people to attend the theatre, but not when it actually affects me!  |
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Post by couldileaveyou on May 25, 2016 15:00:08 GMT
I'm 20 and a regular theatregoer, i'll surely take advantage of this! And sorry, but it's idiotic to think that people don't value things only because they are free...
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2016 16:05:50 GMT
Perhaps when you grow up a bit, you'll realise that saying "And sorry" doesn't make it OK to call someone idiotic.
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Post by n1david on May 25, 2016 16:09:01 GMT
I'm 20 and a regular theatregoer, i'll surely take advantage of this! And sorry, but it's idiotic to think that people don't value things only because they are free... It isn't idiotic, it's a known phenomenon: www.eventbrite.com/blog/ds00-why-people-dont-value-free-events/It's why BBC and ITV routinely issue twice as many tickets as they have room for at the recording of TV and radio shows: because lots of people sign up for them and then don't attend. I'm not saying that there's an exact analogue between a recording of Have I Got News for You and a Donmar production, but it will be interesting to see how much last-minute seat-shuffling has to go on to fill empty seats (as already happens with the existing Front Row seats) |
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Post by firefingers on May 25, 2016 16:26:38 GMT
I'm 20 and a regular theatregoer, i'll surely take advantage of this! And sorry, but it's idiotic to think that people don't value things only because they are free... It isn't idiotic, it's a known phenomenon: www.eventbrite.com/blog/ds00-why-people-dont-value-free-events/It's why BBC and ITV routinely issue twice as many tickets as they have room for at the recording of TV and radio shows: because lots of people sign up for them and then don't attend. I'm not saying that there's an exact analogue between a recording of Have I Got News for You and a Donmar production, but it will be interesting to see how much last-minute seat-shuffling has to go on to fill empty seats (as already happens with the existing Front Row seats) Yep. It is also why casts of shows only get a few free tickets, but often can get people to buy them at a great rate. If they have to pay a little they are far more likely to turn up. |
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Post by lynette on May 25, 2016 17:13:25 GMT
I don't know what I think about the free tix thng and us 'elderlies' making it possible. I have concerns that people will get the freebies who can well afford them. I would have thought a project through schools in inner London would be better. Then the teachers and pupils invest in the project and will feel part of something. You need a bit of a kick into theatre if your parents don't take you so teachers could do this with the help of real theatre people from the Donmar. I think a scheme that is just open to the Internet public is bound to be open to abuse. And as someone who supports theatre I would quite like to be supporting a particular project for a school rather than this nebulous scheme. Or am I being a bit behind the times?
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Post by lynette on May 25, 2016 17:15:01 GMT
Somebody mentioned Twelfth Night at the NT. Is this on? When?
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Post by kathryn on May 25, 2016 17:15:37 GMT
It's true, people don't value what they get for free - at least, not until it is taken away. Then it becomes an outrageous attack on something they felt entitled to.
I was having a poke around the website earlier and they seem to be doing stuff with schools as well as this. I know Josie Rourke has talked on the past about doing workshops with school kids and how amazing that was.
I'm pretty sure this is being funded separately from the schools stuff, which is why we're being asked for donations. I too suspect that the people who benefit will already have the theatre bug - you can take a horse to water...
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2016 17:15:56 GMT
Next spring, with Tamsin Greig as Malvolia.
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Post by couldileaveyou on May 25, 2016 17:43:33 GMT
I wasn't calling you idiotic, just your idea. I simply can't understand how and why people can complain about the fact that for once young people get something for free. I'm a student and we all know that living in London is very expensive, so having something like this surely help more students/young people to go to the theatre. A lot of my uni mates love theatre but never go because it's too expensive for them and there is something very wrong when drama students can't go to theatre. Now, I love the NT policy of 5£ tickets for under 25, this is how I have seen and will see most of their productions in excellent seats. But these tickets sell out very quickly and if you don't buy them on the very day they go on sale there are good chances that you won't see that play. I know a lot of people who would be overjoyed to go to theatre for free and they would never waste this opportunity.
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Post by foxa on May 25, 2016 18:05:30 GMT
The Donmar does fantastic work with schools like schools matinees with tickets for only £5 each and included in that price was a free in-school workshop before the production with a theatre practitioner (and we had some TERRIFIC practitioners including the director Simon Evans.) There were also Q&A's afterwards (again some really memorable ones like Eddie Redmayne talking about Richard II and Simon Russell Beale showing how a rather gruesome contraption for The Philanthropist worked.) And special workshops at the theatre if you are really lucky. I LOVE the Donmar's outreach. But - I'm not sure about the free tickets either, I think people may not use them. But maybe they'll have a special policy if people don't turn up they can't get them in the future or something.
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Post by kathryn on May 25, 2016 19:26:30 GMT
. But these tickets sell out very quickly and if you don't buy them on the very day they go on sale there are good chances that you won't see that play. I know a lot of people who would be overjoyed to go to theatre for free and they would never waste this opportunity. These will go just as fast, so do get your friends up to speed before they go on sale. The point people are making is that this scheme is trying to reach a new audience, who aren't necessarily drama students, and are not overjoyed about watching a Shakespeare play or aware of the quality of Donnar productions. They are unlikely to see being offered a ticket for free as a valuable opportunity. |
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Post by lynette on May 25, 2016 21:03:27 GMT
The Donmar does fantastic work with schools like schools matinees with tickets for only £5 each and included in that price was a free in-school workshop before the production with a theatre practitioner (and we had some TERRIFIC practitioners including the director Simon Evans.) There were also Q&A's afterwards (again some really memorable ones like Eddie Redmayne talking about Richard II and Simon Russell Beale showing how a rather gruesome contraption for The Philanthropist worked.) And special workshops at the theatre if you are really lucky. I LOVE the Donmar's outreach. But - I'm not sure about the free tickets either, I think people may not use them. But maybe they'll have a special policy if people don't turn up they can't get them in the future or something. This is good to hear. I think 'getting' 'em young is the way to go. 24/25 is already out of uni, in work ( I know, not necessarily) |
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