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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2019 18:49:46 GMT
Perhaps the guide dog could have taught the audience some manners. I’ve never heard so many whistles and bleeps from mobiles as I did today, occasionally enlivened by a chap who seemed to have an AD contraption that you could hear all the way across the other side of the auditorium, one level up...
What with all that going on, I thought the cast did a brilliant job - though for me the play itself was a bit ‘meh’. So often with Miller, I find myself thinking, “If you folks had only had a frank conversation some years ago, we wouldn’t all have to be sitting here listening to you whinge/rage.”
The set may look fab but who decided to play so much of the action on the far left of the stage? I was in an aisle seat Grand Circle on the left, and about 50% of it was basically a radio play for me.
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Post by Rory on Apr 13, 2019 19:20:32 GMT
As per my separate thread on Beginning, I was at the Gate Theatre Dublin last night. They always have a man (dressed in full black-tie no less) who really lectures the audience on their phones, tells them to switch them right off and actually points to people who are lit up and shames them to switch them off. It's a bit irritating and OTT but it worked anyway!
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Post by harrietcraig on Apr 13, 2019 21:05:14 GMT
Completely irrelevant to this thread, but the mention of the guide dog reminds me of the time I was sitting in the next-to-last row of the Dress Circle at Carnegie Hall, and there was a guide dog in the space behind me. The dog was so well behaved I wasn’t aware he was there until the applause began at the end of the first half of the concert, when something whacked me hard in the back of the head. I turned around to glare at the person who had hit me, and discovered that it was a dog who was enthusiastically wagging his tail (which was what had hit me in the head). Apparently the dog liked the concert too, and tail-wagging was his way of showing his approval.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2019 21:11:31 GMT
Completely irrelevant to this thread, but the mention of the guide dog reminds me of the time I was sitting in the next-to-last row of the Dress Circle at Carnegie Hall, and there was a guide dog in the space behind me. The dog was so well behaved I wasn’t aware he was there until the applause began at the end of the first half of the concert, when something whacked me hard in the back of the head. I turned around to glare at the person who had hit me, and discovered that it was a dog who was enthusiastically wagging his tail (which was what had hit me in the head). Apparently the dog liked the concert too, and tail-wagging was his way of showing his approval. That has to be the most adorable example of ‘bad behaviour in the theatre’ ever! |
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Post by lonlad on Apr 13, 2019 23:44:24 GMT
Word is that Coyle is trying his damnedest to return to the production but may not be able (for health reasons) to do so .....
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Post by Rory on Apr 14, 2019 6:26:31 GMT
Word is that Coyle is trying his damnedest to return to the production but may not be able (for health reasons) to do so ..... I hope he makes a good recovery soon. |
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Post by theatreliker on Apr 14, 2019 16:36:34 GMT
Does anyone know if this has been filmed by the Digtial Theatre crew? They've done a couple of Miller plays now (All My Sons and The Crucible) and LDJIN with Suchet.
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Post by Mark on Apr 23, 2019 21:42:05 GMT
Word is that Coyle is trying his damnedest to return to the production but may not be able (for health reasons) to do so ..... He was still off tonight but understudy Sion Lloyd very good! I’ll agree with what others have said, it’s a bit slow to start but as soon as David Suchet enters he lights up the stage and the audience seem to wake up. Act two didn’t half go round in circles a bit. Loved the set!! Very impressive. ETA: can’t believe that was the same Sion Lloyd who was in the original London cast of Avenue Q as Brian! |
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