plays in london

[lobelia321]

I really, really want to see Mark Ravenhill's play The Cut in London but the tickets are all sold out! So why the 111 do they bother to advertise it in TODAY's paper, grrr?

Anyway, they have standby tickets. So does anyone in London know how early you have to stand in a queue at a London theatre in order to have any chance in hell at a standby ticket??

I love all of Ravenhill's plays. I've never seen one in the flesh, though. Piquant detail: Ian McKellen is in it.

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[bexone.livejournal.com]

Piquant detail: Ian McKellen is in it.

I suspect that's your culprit re: sold out (and ads are bought ahead of time, with no way to take them back out of the paper)... but, sadly, I have no advice for standby tickets.

[childeproof.livejournal.com]

Depends entirely on the play, the theatre, the star, the phase of the moon etc etc. It can mean the night before. I remember considering joining a queue that was starting the night before for Twelfth Night at the Donmar, to possibly get one of the ten or so tickets which might become available at 10 am the following day. (Laziness won out.)