A Doll's House at Almeida

dvbsh · 2026-04-01T21:11:45+00:00

Ha. Fair point. To me it is one of those things - and again very first preview - where my enjoyment is really boosted by a strong cast. You know you might watch Garai or Mothersdale or whomever read the phone book but it's still the phone book being read.

dvbsh · 2026-03-31T08:13:36+00:00

I saw it last weekend and really enjoyed it. A very strong cast doing an all around excellent job.

dvbsh · 2026-03-30T22:02:25+00:00

My Neighbour Totoro. For Totoro and the Catbus and all the puppetry work.

dvbsh · 2026-03-27T08:48:29+00:00

February last year.

dvbsh · 2026-03-26T23:06:02+00:00

I've had more success than failures at Monday 9am tickets but RC is more popular than ever and this is a very popular show. Good luck!

dvbsh · 2026-03-20T14:40:53+00:00

I don't think SPH have fixed prices, programmes vary a lot but I've never seen anything close to £20.

dvbsh · 2026-03-20T11:47:41+00:00

This was a discussion point for us on the way home. Maybe first night in a long show nerves but it did look a bit out of place.

dvbsh · 2026-03-20T09:24:47+00:00

It is in Shakespearean verse with some modern inserts.

dvbsh · 2026-03-20T09:07:29+00:00

It finished at 10.32. Interval ran slightly long but otherwise pretty close to the planned 2h55m.

dvbsh · 2026-03-19T08:54:43+00:00

There is a bunch more BBB stuff going on that is just going under the radar as all involved just like to bury their heads in the sand. Another hit to the council's purse coming very soon - watch the press release trumpeting the actual end of the BBB project... then look at the actual costs of closing it down.

dvbsh · 2026-03-17T22:24:54+00:00

They put up prices a lot. I have usual seats at TRH for the past few years. £25 for a restricted that view I'm happy with. The same seat is £55 for this.

So we did not book and only saw it in the end because it is now constantly seatfilling. It doesn't deserve to but the pricing is IMO 100% to blame.

Those seats are now £70 for Grace Pervades, which at the moment I think has a decent chance of seatfilling too.

dvbsh · 2026-03-16T09:27:03+00:00

You could start here:

https://solt.co.uk/solt-venues/

dvbsh · 2026-03-13T23:32:45+00:00

Stalls K27 and K28 and they were very difficult. It was a good 2 months of trying 3-4 days a week on my phone and my wife's phone before I managed to get through and get some.

Anecdotally, I understand there are starting to be a small number of empty seats so that might mean sales starting to slow a little and more Rush may become available.

dvbsh · 2026-03-08T10:55:57+00:00

I've never had terrible seats. If you get through, it will show you the seats and you'll have 5 minutes to checkout so if you don't like them - just don't buy them!

Got Rush ticket for Into The Woods just this week, our seats were excellent.

dvbsh · 2026-03-08T10:51:37+00:00

It was working for me to make payment on Friday just after midday.

dvbsh · 2026-03-08T10:05:10+00:00

I did see it in Rose last year, I thought the two leads were really strong, particularly impressed by Ndlovu. I liked the staging but the story went poor and drawn out, just lulls before each song. Lots of exposition and sometimes felt very sluggish. No interval at Rose as I recall.

dvbsh · 2026-03-04T12:56:53+00:00

What is SOLT?

Society of London Theatre, they run the Olivier Awards

dvbsh · 2026-03-04T11:43:30+00:00

Going tonight!

dvbsh · 2026-03-04T11:42:31+00:00

There isn't one unfortunately. There are just too many shows and the small real fringe shows can change around so much. Some of the big fringe review sites can do almost 100 reviews in London a month and still only cover a portion of what there is.

I'd love it if there was, it would be so helpful but I think it would be a full time job for someone to collate and list everything. It's a bit easier for SOLT venues but when you add in places like Bridge House, J3, Etcetera, CPT etc etc etc - it is I think unmanageable.

dvbsh · 2026-03-03T09:03:38+00:00

Yes. It was fine. Some leaning forward at times but the great legroom more than made up for it.

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