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  1. RobR
    Can anyone use Stalls Circle A36 for today’s 1.30 matinee? I’m waiting on a couple of calls but contact me if you can.
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    It's very good - but different. For my part, and I’m probably engaging my 'inner child', I very much miss the White Lodge 'rats'; stabbing with their swords whilst twirling their tails, the two mice bringing on a stretcher to carry off their injured colleague and, at the end, struggling under weight of the mouse king as he topples into their arms and is carried off stage by them. So, good though the current ‘lockdown' version is, I (and probably most children) look forward to their return 😯
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    Yes please
  4. RobR
    Julia Roscoe as Myrthe
  5. RobR
    Last year, to assist with social distancing and other COVID requirements and advice, changes were introduced, one of which was to reduce the number of snowflakes. I believe that at the time the current run was planned it was decided to continue with the changes
  6. RobR
    Yes please. I’ll DM you
  7. RobR
    The great thing about your seats Nikita is that you’ll get a perfect view of the pattern of the Snowflakes.
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    Thanks Bruce
  9. RobR
    I don’t think that means that 'Performances seen' and ‘General Discussions' should necessarily be part of the same thread. And, just to clarify, I'd find it easier to enjoy everyone's views about R & J * if the thread weren’t interspersed with posts on audience behaviour about mask wearing and etiquette. I'd be perfectly happy to engage in a discussion on 'audience behaviour and mask wearing and etiquette' if it were in a separate thread. (* And any other ballet performance review)
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    I’m very pleased that she’s back
  12. RobR
    Like me, @Fonty, you’re just an audience member and ballet lover who knows what she likes. Ballet choreography, as practised by some choreographers, is about telling the audience what they should like. Some of them are very good and get it right more often than not but others …….
  13. RobR
    It’s always helpful to know if a poster has experience other than being an audience member, when reading a critique
  14. RobR
    I imagine most do have busy schedules but many of them will also have friends and family who access BF as visitors or members and can helpfully convey the content of such posts
  15. RobR
    I’m afraid that I think that the Mods have a big enough job running the Forum (voluntarily) without having to police or edit posts. Two points. First, a good rule might be not to post any remark that you wouldn’t be prepared to say face to face to the person about whom the post is written. Second, where critical posts are posted, I would be interested to know something about the poster and what experience they have about the subject matter or person they’re criticising.
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    Oh dear, @JNCI’m afraid you missed the Act 2 wedding 😟
  17. RobR
    I haven’t always been quite as comfortable with McGregor’s work as many on the forum have but, with that in mind, I must say I enjoyed seeing it tonight and I have a ticket to see it again. I very much enjoyed the first act but the dancers and orchestra, conducted by Thomas Ades, were terrific throughout and the music, particularly in acts 1 and 3 drove the choreography and gave the cast the opportunity to set a very high standard. The set design and lighting in Inferno was brilliant, and seemed innovative to me, as was the staging, and it was an unexpectedly enjoyable evening.
  18. RobR
    C’mon guys, we’ve all seen this scene so often we’d be certain we’d seen monks even if they’d missed their cue and hadn’t come on stage. Seriously though, and with the greatest respect to those who perform this particular role, there isn’t really a lot to see whatever the lighting is like.
  19. RobR
    I really enjoyed the General and I’m now wishing I was going tomorrow for the same cast
  20. RobR
    Don't feel guilty. A simple rule of thumb is that critics compete with each other in a private race that has no real relevance to your/our enjoyment of what you see. Their taste may not be your taste, their experience may not be yours and their remarks should neither diminish your pleasure and elation nor, give profundity and validation to any performance that you feel is neither entertaining nor uplifting.
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    Thanks Dave, that clears that up
  22. RobR
    How irritating. That said, was he the Daily Telegraph photographer? I've just looked at Mark Monahan's review and am wondering when the photos (credited to Alastair Muir) were taken? It very much looks as if they were taken during the performance.
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    😃😃😃
  24. RobR
    Those of us who are vaccinated are protected as are those of us who’ve had Covid, and have the antibodies, and that’s the vast majority of us. If we catch anything it’s statistically likely to have little serious or long term effect. Of course we can wear a mask to protect the small number who have chosen not to have the vaccine or are unable to have it for medical reasons but my personal view is that the use of masks for protection is overrated although not wearing them is, as a consequence of the last 18 months, still counter-intuitive.
  25. RobR
    And, on a very personal note, can I say how nice it is to see Julia Roscoe back on stage after eighteen months of surgery and rehabilitation following a career threatening injury 😀
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