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Post by keepitupstairs on Jun 18, 2022 21:03:00 GMT
Possibly a stupid question but how can this be having an NT Live in a month’s time if the final performance was tonight and a new show is moving into the venue? Was it just filmed sometime during the run and they’re showing it ‘as live’?
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Post by jm25 on Jun 18, 2022 21:34:02 GMT
Possibly a stupid question but how can this be having an NT Live in a month’s time if the final performance was tonight and a new show is moving into the venue? Was it just filmed sometime during the run and they’re showing it ‘as live’? It was filmed earlier this week. There are some photos on Twitter of the various cameras they had set up! |
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Post by alessia on Jun 19, 2022 6:22:12 GMT
Yes it was filmed this Tuesday 14th. As I was checking for returns online this annoying pop up kept appearing, saying that it would be filmed etc. Also, there were no day seats for that day
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Post by jampot on Jun 19, 2022 10:33:16 GMT
Yes it was filmed this Tuesday 14th. As I was checking for returns online this annoying pop up kept appearing, saying that it would be filmed etc. Also, there were no day seats for that day Where did the footage for the ntl trailer come from as that's been doing the rounds for a few weeks now..maybe they have filmed more than once...or just got some specific footage needed...? |
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Post by talkingheads on Jun 19, 2022 14:34:44 GMT
Yes it was filmed this Tuesday 14th. As I was checking for returns online this annoying pop up kept appearing, saying that it would be filmed etc. Also, there were no day seats for that day Where did the footage for the ntl trailer come from as that's been doing the rounds for a few weeks now..maybe they have filmed more than once...or just got some specific footage needed...? They most likely filmed a rehearsal for the trailer. |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jul 20, 2022 18:06:52 GMT
Cinema broadcast 21st July.
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Post by jm25 on Jul 20, 2022 18:21:02 GMT
Got my ticket booked for tomorrow - really looking forward to it! Especially because the cinema seems to have messed up and only charged me £7 for my ticket when most places round me are now selling them at £25 each.
I've never watched a filmed version of a play I've seen before, so I'm keen to see how well it translates to the screen.
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Post by alessia on Jul 20, 2022 18:27:47 GMT
Yes booked a while ago, and it sold out at my local everyman. After wasting my time on a day 'seat' up in the gods, and seeing nothing & nearly melting in the heat, I look forward to properly seeing this play!
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jul 21, 2022 6:24:48 GMT
A taster
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2022 20:25:52 GMT
I'm not sure I can formulate anything more to say right now than my god Jodie Comer is exceptional.
Wow. And wow again.
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Post by talkingheads on Jul 21, 2022 21:27:20 GMT
I honestly can't find enough superlatives in the English language to describe how incredible Jodie is in this, and if that sounds like hyperbole, it isn't. This is the kind of performance that defines a part, I can't imagine anybody else doing it, and it's her West End debut - this is Jodie at the beginning of her acting life, how lucky we are that she has her entire career ahead of her. Astonishing.
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Post by Being Alive on Jul 21, 2022 22:15:08 GMT
It's truly insane that this is her stage debut.
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Post by jm25 on Jul 21, 2022 22:59:05 GMT
Absolutely sensational. It's going to be such a privilege following Jodie's career. She's clearly a once in a generation talent but what I love about her is that she chooses projects which really seem to matter. Post-Killing Eve I'm sure she'd have had her choice of roles, but Help and Prima Facie have felt so timely and relevant. (Even The Last Duel seems to have been building towards Prima Facie.) On a production level, I thought this was fantastic. Great editing and great directing. Knew exactly what it had to do to let the central performance shine. Minor spoilers: {Spoiler - click to view}
If I had to be picky - and this is exceptionally minor - I'd say that the lights going up on the audience in the final monologue didn't quite have the same impact on screen that it did in the theatre. In person and up close, that moment was probably the most profound and affecting theatregoing experience I think I've ever had. On screen, tracking back through the audience felt slightly like it was taking you out of the moment. But on the other hand, the moment where she looks right down the camera was incredible. Gave me chills. Wonderful, wonderful stuff. Can't remember the last time I've been so taken in by a play. Will probably try to catch an encore screening! |
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Post by margoc on Jul 21, 2022 23:27:48 GMT
It was so good to see it again! Still can't get over how phenomenal Jodie is as an actress. I really hope it returns to the west end at some point.
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Post by alessia on Jul 22, 2022 6:25:02 GMT
JC amazing, truly. However, I haven't changed my mind about the play- I still don't think it's that good. If it wasn't for Comer's exceptional performance, this would be a pretty average. She really takes it up a notch, and the design/music/lights are very good too.
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Post by vickyg on Jul 22, 2022 17:23:31 GMT
I was so excited to see this and was even contemplating trying to get a ticket for Broadway but now I'm not sure. It was as though a starter's pistol had been fired and under no circumstances was Jodie Comer going to come up for air until the curtain call. Her energy was amazing and it must have been very challenging to do that 8 times a week for months, but to me it was 100 minutes of borderline shouting.
Imo the section at the end with the lights up was not necessary at all. It was a repetition of what had been shown to the audience throughout the performance and was then being explicitly stated with the subtlety of a sledgehammer in case we were too stupid to understand it the first time. I found it almost cringeworthy. I can see how it would have been more effective in the theatre, the discussion of statistics with the audience members able to see one other and understand that they are the statistics. But overall not at all what I was expecting from the pretty much universal gushing.
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Post by A.Ham on Aug 15, 2022 17:11:57 GMT
If you’re a Sky customer, they’re offering up to two free tickets to cinema screenings in various towns/cities on Sept 13th via Sky VIP in the My Sky app. Only some locations still have availability but worth checking back regularly as they release tickets in batches.
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Post by grannyjx6 on Aug 16, 2022 22:11:23 GMT
I saw it tonight (got soaking wet too, but we need the rain don’t we?). I agree with others, she really shouts at first and I started thinking what’s all the fuss about, but then it gets properly into the story and really grabs you. I left at the part where the lights were all on the audience as I had a bus to catch. Maybe I should have waited a bit, but I thought that was the end?
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Post by og on Aug 17, 2022 8:57:44 GMT
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Post by A.Ham on Sept 13, 2022 21:24:14 GMT
I finally saw the NT Live cinema screening of this tonight and was almost as impressed as when I saw it live! Great to get the close ups of Jodie’s emotions and to spot those details I couldn’t see from mid-stalls. On that note, I spotted that when she’s barefoot, she has bandaging on both feet - did anyone else notice or know what this is for? I wondered if it’s to help prevent her slipping when she’s climbing onto and standing on the desk that’s wet from the rain effect?
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Post by jm25 on Sept 13, 2022 22:57:53 GMT
It's great that this is still running! I read that it recently overtook Fleabag as the highest grossing event cinema release. Well deserved! I believe that the grips on her feet were indeed to prevent slipping on the table and the floor after the rain.
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Post by A.Ham on Sept 14, 2022 10:59:16 GMT
It's great that this is still running! I read that it recently overtook Fleabag as the highest grossing event cinema release. Well deserved! I believe that the grips on her feet were indeed to prevent slipping on the table and the floor after the rain. Yes it was a free screening for Sky customers - they were on nationwide last night. I saw it in Southampton and the cinema was full. And thank you, I assumed that must be what the bandages/grips were for. |
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Post by Being Alive on Sept 14, 2022 11:04:27 GMT
its on a 55% split with NTLive for cinemas regardless of how many tickets you sell, hence why my local curzon is showing it twice a day and has been for the last 3 months... - there's no fee or minimum amount payable to NTLive so just keep adding screenings.
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Post by David J on Sept 29, 2022 22:01:07 GMT
Just saw a repeat screening.
I fall under the brilliant performance, flawed play camp.
Jodie Comer makes this performance undoubtedly.
It's like two plays in one. It starts strong, as we follow her characters life and I enjoyed her quick paced narration. And we gradually see the issues surrounding sexual assault cases seep through. Bold, but character driven and at times nuanced. Just how I like it
Then it turns into the 'issue play' I dread really. And I've seen better 'issue plays'. On one hand I like how we get to see the torment the character goes through. But it comes to a point where the play has nowhere else to go as it hammers this through. And in that moment when Jodie looks out at the audience and talks about the statistics, Tess becomes Suzie Miller's mouthpiece.
It's perhaps a drawback of a one character play that we can't take a step back for a breather and see this from another character's perspective. Say the mother's for an instance
I felt the length of the play at times. There are sections I enjoyed initially, such as Tess' narration of her case at the beginning, but goes on for too long. I'd tune out and be jolted by the sudden leaps back and forth in time.
4 stars for Jodie Comer. 2.5 for the play.
So 3.25 stars over all
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Post by joem on Oct 10, 2022 22:20:32 GMT
Well finally got to see this today. Thank goodness for cinema broadcasts, never seen one before although of course had to see stuff online when the theatres were all dark.
I have to say what an astounding, mesmerising performance by Jodie Comer. I could have watched this for four hours and not got tired of it at all. At first I was going to quibble and say that maybe it was too fast-paced and needed more variety in the first section but nah, it's a really feeble quibble. If she decides to do more work on the stage we are in for a treat for decades to come.
The play is excellent too. The sheer audacity of writing such an emotional and complex work as a monologue already deserves plaudits but the best of it is it actually works! I am sure that Jodie's genius makes this jump off the page big time (like Rylance in Jerusalem) but it has to be on the page first and Suzie Miller's deft and sensitive exposition and exploration of such a difficult, painful subject does not deserved to be dissed as only good because Jodie Comer's in it. It is far better than that.
Wish I'd seen it on stage but glad I've seen it at all. Genius.
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