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[achilles]

Lynette, on 10 September 2011 - 08:17 AM, said:

I agree the film misses it because the play depends on that live reaction.

The film needed to find the equivalent language of the play having to go on at all costs. Maybe they should have filmed each act in one camera shot. Perhaps they could have been very clever a made a film about making a film of stage production of Noises Off which contains Nothing on. Another level. Now this really could have been interesting. My favourite film about making films is perhaps 'Living in oblivion' or Truffaut's Day for Night, though having seen that again last year it was actually rather underwhelming.

[Honoured Guest]

Has anyone seen any of Alain Resnais's three Alan Ayckbourn films, the first two of which were two-handers from Intimate Exchanges?
http://ayckbourn.blo...lms-at-bfi.html

[Pharaoh's number 2]

Booked for this. Sounds like a good bit of Xmas fun... snow permitting!

[Lynette]

Honoured Guest, on 10 September 2011 - 11:21 AM, said:

Has anyone seen any of Alain Resnais's three Alan Ayckbourn films, the first two of which were two-handers from Intimate Exchanges?
http://ayckbourn.blo...lms-at-bfi.html

I know you know but just in case one of our less erudite friends is mislead, Noises Off ain't Acykbourn, it's Frayn.

[achilles]

Has the theatricality of ayckbourn ever worked on film. Michael Winner's A Chorus of Disapproval must have been one of the worst films ever made of a film. Sorry, one of the worst films ever made, but I guess that could be applied to the whole Winner canon. Never saw the Revenger's Comedies.

[Lynette]

Crud film, I agree and such a super stage play. It joins the list along with the movie version of the novel Fatherland - how could they mess that one up? But brings into focus the difference between stage and movie.

[Lynette]

Byzantine booking on the phone...they are charging £75 for the best stalls, then £49.50. Note stalls starts at Row E, omits I and O [ ???? ] and you can't book more than 7 on the regular number. Unless like me you are taking other people and need to fix date, I should wait for the preview offers if there are any. Not to mention the reviews!  

[Jan Brock]

Lynette, on 12 September 2011 - 10:06 AM, said:

Byzantine booking on the phone...they are charging £75 for the best stalls

Amazing. Who is in it ? I saw the original production (was it at the Savoy ?). Funny, but not £75 funny.

[VDCNI]

No cast announced yet.

Wasn't surprised by the £75 seats for Spacey in Richard III but there will have to be some cast to justify it here!

[Honoured Guest]

Lynette, on 12 September 2011 - 10:06 AM, said:

they are charging £75 for the best stalls, then £49.50.

VDCNI, on 12 September 2011 - 11:27 AM, said:

Wasn't surprised by the £75 seats for Spacey in Richard III but there will have to be some cast to justify it here!

You can see on the website that only a very few seats are offered at the premium price of £75. So you're quite safe to book a regularly priced seat. When a performance is heavily booked, some people will be willing and able to pay an additional £25.50 for an excellent seat in preference to one in a much less good location. I think this is a good idea of The Old Vic, although I'm much less supportive of other theatres who classify many many rows of seats as premium, as with The Children's Hour, initially, at the Comedy.