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In Topic: Donmar New Season

Yesterday, 03:44 PM

The seating plan has been updated with the standard Front Row arrangement http://www.donmarwar...nus#SeatingPlan

In Topic: The Tempest At The Globe

08 May 2013 - 08:18 PM

 peggs, on 08 May 2013 - 06:45 PM, said:

One of the reviews I read lauded the fact that this wasn't a production that was revenge focused, it was rather ensure future of Miranda focussed. Now I can't remember how revenge filled the last production i saw was (long distance from top of the haymarket) but is it really about revenge that much, is he really on the verge of assassination? If he was really out for revenge would he not end it differently? Or is does he undergo a change of heart part way? I liked the version of Prospero where he was ultimately more bothered about the future of his daughter than on getting his own back and I disagree that there wasn't the threat of something dark under it all. I think Allam is so much better than just a comedy actor, I didn't see his Falstaff but by all accounts it was great and you can't just play Falstaff as just comedy, there has to be something more.

I'm not over 45 either but i could be an Allam fan girl (without the screaming).

Prospero was out for vengeance motivated by his fury but has his mind changed by Ariel. The key moment comes in 5.1. He has his enemies under his power, thanks to Ariel, and has this conversation with him:

ARIEL
…Your charm so strongly works 'em
That if you now beheld them, your affections
Would become tender.
PROSPERO
Dost thou think so, spirit?
ARIEL
Mine would, sir, were I human.
PROSPERO
And mine shall.
Hast thou, which art but air, a touch, a feeling
Of their afflictions, and shall not myself,
One of their kind, that relish all as sharply,
Passion as they, be kindlier moved than thou art?
Though with their high wrongs I am struck to the quick,
Yet with my nobler reason 'gainst my fury
Do I take part: the rarer action is
In virtue than in vengeance: they being penitent,
The sole drift of my purpose doth extend
Not a frown further. Go release them, Ariel:
My charms I'll break, their senses I'll restore,
And they shall be themselves.

In Topic: The Tempest At The Globe

08 May 2013 - 10:52 AM

Roger Allam didn't convince me that he had spent ten years brooding and plotting his revenge. He's good at comedy, but the only hints of darkness came when he broke off, paused to stare into space and deliver the next phrase slowly and deliberately, before resuming like a smug senior civil servant on gardening leave, rather than someone on the verge of assassinating his enemies.

In Topic: Sam Wanamaker Playhouse (Globe Indoors) Opening Season

29 April 2013 - 11:40 AM

The £10 standing places are described as "very restricted view hearing position". So presumably you have to close your eyes and imagine what is happening out of sight below.

In Topic: Sam Wanamaker Playhouse (Globe Indoors) Opening Season

29 April 2013 - 09:43 AM

It also seems that many tickets have been kept off sale to Friends and reserved for public booking. That is very fair because if Friends booking were unrestricted the membership could buy out the entire run of most productions and leave nothing for non-member Globe regulars who rely on public booking for yard tickets.

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