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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2016 0:22:33 GMT
I was there too today so missed you again, Parsley. Timely seeing it at this point, too, given the happenings in Birmingham. More thoughts to come later about forgiveness, prisons both physical and mental and where the nation stands now. You could have paid £50 for the day, by the wat, and had just as good a view on the (not very far) back row. I'd also put The Tempest at the top, JC second and Henry IV a little further back; partly concept but also given the relative proportion of how much Harriet Walter you get. Yes I paid £50 The person next to me £150 Was there dynamic pricing here? Must have been Also there was a major error on my ticket Said Tempest started 2030 when in fact it was 2000 Only made it as they were running so late for each play |
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Post by mikey on Dec 18, 2016 0:28:10 GMT
I was there today, was an incredible experience to see all three plays in one go. What a terrific cast.
Really loved Sophie Stanton as Falstaff and Caliban.
As some other people have already commented on, I don't think The Tempest utlised the prison setting as well as the previous two plays.
I do agree that there was no need for dynamic pricing when all seats would have given very good views, I'd imagine.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2016 0:29:12 GMT
I was there today, was an incredible experience to see all three plays in one go. What a terrific cast. Really loved Sophie Stanton as Falstaff and Caliban. As some other people have already commented on, I don't think The Tempest utlised the prison setting as well as the previous two plays. I do agree that there was no need for dynamic pricing when all seats would have given very good views, I'd imagine. What row were you in please? |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2016 0:30:41 GMT
I was there today, was an incredible experience to see all three plays in one go. What a terrific cast. Really loved Sophie Stanton as Falstaff and Caliban. As some other people have already commented on, I don't think The Tempest utlised the prison setting as well as the previous two plays. I do agree that there was no need for dynamic pricing when all seats would have given very good views, I'd imagine. What row were you in please? I think the dynamic pricing came into play after the reviews came out During the incredibly long preview period they were papering all 3 plays That stopped soon after the 5 star reviews and the gushing press quotes were used in advertising! |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2016 0:31:12 GMT
Macbeth is reasonably tedious, and the Globe and RSC do it all the time. It's also reasonably safe as a West End or other major theatre or fringe theatre production. I've seen three different productions of it this year alone courtesy of Punchdrunk (sort of), the Young Vic, and the Globe. If you're not seeing enough Macbeths for your liking, then it's you who's not making the effort, not the theatres. As mentioned It's not been done at the NT Donmar or Almeida The YV version was hardly well received or a faithful staging I don't do The Globe The RSC last staged it in 2011 and before that 2004 So it's not staged "all the time" I wish people would check their facts first I don't know what to tell you except I've seen it fifteen times over the last few years in a variety of venues and guises, which is a more than reasonable production rate for *any* play. Is it done as often as Hamlet, Lear, or As You Like It? No, of course not, *nothing* is done as often as Hamlet, Lear, or As You Like It. Has it been done of late in the small handful of specific theatres you name in your post? No, it is indeed a correct fact that it hasn't been done of late in the small handful of specific theatres you name in your post. But if you chill your li'l boots the next production will be along in no time at all, and I don't see why your refusal to patronise a particular theatre should count against the number of productions that exist of a particular play, that's a very strange point to make. By the by, there is this forthcoming at the National: www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/macbeth but I expect you'll have some equally strange point to make for why this one doesn't count either. Honestly, "check their facts", like I don't keep detailed records of all my theatre-going and am just pulling nonsense out of thin air.  |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2016 0:35:21 GMT
As mentioned It's not been done at the NT Donmar or Almeida The YV version was hardly well received or a faithful staging I don't do The Globe The RSC last staged it in 2011 and before that 2004 So it's not staged "all the time" I wish people would check their facts first I don't know what to tell you except I've seen it fifteen times over the last few years in a variety of venues and guises, which is a more than reasonable production rate for *any* play. Is it done as often as Hamlet, Lear, or As You Like It? No, of course not, *nothing* is done as often as Hamlet, Lear, or As You Like It. Has it been done of late in the small handful of specific theatres you name in your post? No, it is indeed a correct fact that it hasn't been done of late in the small handful of specific theatres you name in your post. But if you chill your li'l boots the next production will be along in no time at all, and I don't see why your refusal to patronise a particular theatre should count against the number of productions that exist of a particular play, that's a very strange point to make. By the by, there is this forthcoming at the National: www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/macbeth but I expect you'll have some equally strange point to make for why this one doesn't count either. Honestly, "check their facts", like I don't keep detailed records of all my theatre-going and am just pulling nonsense out of thin air. The last proper high profile one I saw Was Branagh And before that Patrick Stewart Compared to the Lears and Hamlets we have had to endure Paltry |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2016 10:15:19 GMT
Compared to the Lears and Hamlets we have had to endure Paltry No one has to endure anything. We all see a personal selection of the available productions. Even individual critics make such choices. |
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Post by Jan on Dec 18, 2016 13:32:12 GMT
How come Macbeth doesn't get staged that often The NT or Donmar not done for ages And Almeida not a proper version other than some bastardised thing if I recall correctly? It's a much better play than Hamlet and that gets done all the time! You have forgotten Simon Russell-Beale's eminently forgettable, and conventional, Macbeth which was at the Almeida in 2005. Same year as Stephen Dillane's one man version at the same venue I think. Over the years Macbeth has been staged quite often, significantly more often than As You Like It for example (despite the comment further up this thread). The last one I saw was John Heffernan at the Young Voc. Tempest is one of the most frequently staged. Of the more famous plays in the canon the ones that get staged surprisingly infrequently are Romeo & Juliet and Antony and Cleopatra (both are hard to cast I think). |
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Post by lynette on Dec 18, 2016 16:36:17 GMT
Macbeth is a GCSE set book probably because it is short and Shakespeare, ever considerate of the struggling student, sign posts everything so well! The best Macbeth I've seen was the one at Stratford where they made the witches children. We don't get at all bothered these days about evil witches which still were a reality, just, to the Jacobean audience, but we are very frightened of evil children in the modern world. It was chilling and of course fitted into the child metaphor strand in the play. But it is hard to get right on stage for all sorts of reasons: hence I think the suspicions surrounding it.
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