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26 February 2005
14 February 2005
Theatre of Blood tickets booked
Well, our tickets for Theatre of Blood are now booked and paid for! Hurrah. I decided to pay £10 and sign up for the Advance Member scheme, which gave us access to the booking form two weeks early. As there's only one convenient day for us to go to see the play and we anticipated tickets selling fairly quickly, I thought it wise to do that. So our tickets are now booked and we'll be seated four rows back, which isn't too bad at all! We wanted to get front row seats, but perhaps that was a bit ambitious. Anyone wishing to join as an Advance Member and purchase their tickets today can do here: Advance Member Registration.
I would also advise anyone wishing to book tickets to use Theatremonkey as a guide; we never book London theatre tickets without first consulting the monkey! On the left-hand menu, click on By Venue Name and then find National Theatre Lyttelton Auditorium, or simply Lyttelton Theatre. Scroll down to the bottom and there is a good description of all of the seating, plus a seating plan highlighting which seats you should avoid wherever possible! We got the cheapest seats at £10 each, but managed to avoid any of the "red" ones! The postage charge for tickets is 60p within the UK but there is no booking fee. Alternatively, you can pick the tickets up from the box office on your arrival. (Probably best for those of you travelling from overseas.)
I'm all excited now!
4 February 2005
Theatre of Blood dates
The National Theatre website has now confirmed the dates for performances of Theatre of Blood this year. Tickets can be booked from March 3rd onwards either online, over the phone, or in person at the box office. The performances start at 7:30pm (unless otherwise indicated) and are on the following dates:
May
Mon 9 (preview), Tue 10 (preview), Wed 11 (preview), Thu 12 (preview), Fri 13 (preview), Sat 14 (preview), Mon 16 (preview), Tue 17 (preview), Wed 18, Thu 19 (press, 7.00 pm), Fri 20, Sat 21 (2.15 pm), Sat 21, Fri 27, Sat 28 (2.15 pm), Sat 28, Mon 30, Tue 31
June
Fri 10, Sat 11 (2.15 pm), Sat 11, Mon 13, Tue 14, Wed 15 (2.15 pm), Wed 15
For more information, please see National Theatre: Theatre of Blood.
3 February 2005
Theatre of Blood news
Some wonderful news about Rachael's theatre career today! She will be playing the role of Edwina Lionheart in the National Theatre production of Theatre of Blood, which will be showing during the theatre's 2005 season! Rachael will be working alongside actor Jim Broadbent, who will be playing her father. Her mother, Dame Diana Rigg, played the role of Edwina in the original 1973 film. I'm very happy about this news!
Rachael follows in Diana's footsteps
I'm not sure exactly when the play will be showing, but it appears that it will be after April and before the autumn. May seems likely, but no dates have been confirmed yet. When the dates are confirmed, I'll be sure to post about it and provide a link to any ticket booking websites I come across!
Brilliant news. Thanks to Ruby at the Rachael Stirling Yahoo! Group for posting the link to the article.
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Rachael follows in Diana's footsteps
Jim Broadbent, Sir Michael Gambon and Rachael Stirling are set to star in the National Theatre's 2005 season, unveiled today.
The season also includes new writing by playwrights as diverse as Mike Leigh and Stephen Knight, the man who created Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
The first headline show of the year will be Henry IV parts I and II, directed by the NT's artistic director Nick Hytner and starring Sir Michael — who was a member of the National's original company under Laurence Olivier — as Falstaff, Matthew Macfadyen as Prince Hal and David Bradley as King Henry.
The productions, which open in April, will be the first of 2005's Travelex season, in which all tickets are just ?10.
Jim Broadbent will play Edward Lionheart in Theatre Of Blood, an adaptation of the 1973 schlock-horror film. In this collaboration between Improbable Theatre and the NT, Lionheart is a frustrated Shakespearian actor who wreaks a bloody revenge on his critics.
His daughter will be played by Tipping The Velvet star Rachael Stirling. Her mother, Dame Diana Rigg, took the same role in the original film.
Meanwhile Mike Leigh's new play will open at the Cottesloe theatre in September — but as yet the double Oscar nominated director has revealed no details of the project. The cast will include John Burgess, Samantha Spiro and Caroline Gruber.
Stephen Knight's first play, President Of An Empty Room, will premiere in the autumn.
Mr Knight told the Standard: "It is set in a Cuban cigar factory and it is contemporary. The situation in Cuba is that you have a precarious social situation that depends only on Castro being alive, everyone knows if he dies everything will change."
Look forward to the US release of both films.
