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Can anyone recommend a theatre where the seats were designed with normal people's legs in mind and not amputees. At 6'2" I find most theatre going experiences ruined after 30mins when I can no longer feel my feet due to lack of circulation and have my knees near my ears. The Barbican is the only place I found even close to comfy.
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david_carnell Wrote:

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> Can anyone recommend a theatre where the seats

> were designed with normal people's legs in mind

> and not amputees. At 6'2" I find most theatre

> going experiences ruined after 30mins when I can

> no longer feel my feet due to lack of circulation

> and have my knees near my ears. The Barbican is

> the only place I found even close to comfy.


Royal Court Sloane Square - most comfortable theatre in London


For all other theatres you should refer to the seating plans on www.theatremonkey.com

The monkey's seating plans are really detailed and especially useful for tall people (as well as very fussy people like me); at the least you can try and bag yourself some aisle seats which I'm guessing whould help a bit.

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david_carnell Wrote:

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> Can anyone recommend a theatre where the seats

> were designed with normal people's legs in mind

> and not amputees. At 6'2" I find most theatre

> going experiences ruined after 30mins when I can

> no longer feel my feet due to lack of circulation

> and have my knees near my ears. The Barbican is

> the only place I found even close to comfy.


The National is OK too.

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Ladygooner Wrote:

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> Speed the Plow with Kevin Spacey is also excellent

> if you can get hold of a ticket!



There are no tickets to be had...except through EBay I've discovered.


By the way - thank you all for your recommendations/suggestions

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atila the gooner Wrote:

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> My sons tutor, who is studying Drama at secondary

> school, has recommended that he go along to see a

> Bertolt Brecht play, or a production using Brechts

> techniques. Any ideas people?



You are in luck. The Young Vic is staging "The Good Soul of Szechuan" in May.


http://www.youngvic.org/whats-on


I do not know this version of the play, the version I saw was at the National Theatre some years ago, put on as "THE GOOD PERSON OF SICHUAN" with Fiona Shaw and Bill Patterson. It was excellent. Translations of Brecht can differ wildly but I would imagine that Jane Horrocks is playing the "Good Person" in the Young Vic's version.


I am really quite partial to a bit of Brecht because the complete lack of any sub-text whatsoever leaves me free to think of other things. The best I ever saw was Diana Rigg as Mother Courage - magnificent.


If you go to this page at the Young Vic http://www.youngvic.org/whats-on?action=details&id=1793 - you will find a lot of information about the play and this production of it. Before you book, phone the box office and check if they are doing any special Brecht events in support of the play - they often do that at the Young Vic - so you can coincide your visit with whatever event they are putting on.


Lastly, the Young Vic is a few minutes' walk from the 176 bus stop - so you can't go wrong.

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The Ant Theatre Company's next production 'BodyClock' by Allan Swift is now on at the White Bear Theatre (Kennington tube, Northern Line, www.whitebeartheatre.co.uk ) until Sunday 13th July 2008.


More info and to book


?BodyClock?, is a cocktail of adultery, revenge and sex. Tom, Penny, Ros, Fiona and Michael?s everyday lives hid a web of lies and deceit. In a dangerous game of wits, are the risks worth the rewards and is time on their side?


Theatre credits of the cast:


Hilary Tones:

Thaisa and Dionysa in Pericles (Shakespeare's Globe), Elizabeth in Mary Stuart (Derby Playhouse), Mariana in Measure for Measure with Mark Rylance (Shakespeare's Globe), for the RSC - Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet and Have (RSC), and for Hull Truck Theatre - Can't Stand Up for Falling Down, Woyzeck and Salt of the Earth.


Steve Watts:

Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet and the title role in Macbeth (Image Theatre Company); Sir Oliver Martext in As You Like It (Cheek By Jowl, World tour/Albery); Tom Buchanan in The Great Gatsby (tour of Germany); Wolf and Cinderella?s Prince in Into the Woods (Theatre Royal, York); The Proprietor in Assassins (New End, Hampstead); Buzfuz in Pickwick (Haymarket, Basingstoke); Archie in Jumpers (National Theatre / Piccadilly); National Theatre production of My Fair Lady at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and on the UK Tour.



Susan Bracken:

Rosalind in As You Like It (Bridewell Theatre), Diane in Stratford Street (King?s Head Theatre), Lyla in The Fetch, Liz in From Both Hips and Elaine in Last of the Red Hot Lovers (all Old Red Lion Theatre), Lizzy Bennet in Lizzy, Darcy and Jane (Tabard Theatre), Maria in Twelfth Night (Broadway Theatre), Mrs Cheveley in An Ideal Husband (Bridewell Theatre) and Susie in One Night Stand (Hen & Chickens Theatre).



Stephen Lockwood

Trained at Rose Bruford, Stephen has been seen around the London fringe theatre circuit for many years as well as working on screen and in the world of voice-overs. Previous work includes Bernie ?Sexual Perversity in Chicago? (Leatherhead for his own company Perverse Productions), Kenneth Baxter ?This Story of Yours? (Pentameters) Rev Parris ?The Crucible? (Touring) and Kowalski in the Feature ?Flamingo Blues? (Metto productions).



Lou Yates:

Worked at many regional repertory theatres, including Birmingham, Sheffield, Exeter, Chester, Leicester, Leeds, Bristol and Manchester Royal Exchange. She has also worked widely in London, at the Tricycle Kilburn, the BAC, Southwark Playhouse and the Orange Tree Richmond, as well as touring with productions in America and with Neil Bartlett at the Lyric Hammersmith and throughout the UK.



About the writer/director:


Allan Swift


Allan Swift has written and directed for television for over 25 years.

Theatre credits include: writer/director of three full length plays for the National Youth Theatre: The Lord of Misrule, (Shaw Theatre); George Orwell's 1984 (Shaw Theatre); None But Friends (Jeanette Cochrane Theatre). Other plays include Manhattan Souvenirs (Old Red Lion), Reproductions (Bridge Lane), The Age of Vice (Young Vic).

Television: worked on Brookside as both a writer and director; he worked in Vancouver for CBC on "Northwood" and has written for Casualty, London's Burning, EastEnders, Emmerdale and Hollyoaks

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