Apollo Theatre
Last Friday evening I was sitting at home, trying to figure out what to do with the weekend. Every now and then I have a look here, to see whether there are any affordable tickets to plays or musicals around. Honestly, I think the prices in London are absolutely mad if you don’t want to sit in the upper left corner behind a spotlight. I have done that before actually, back in my no-money-at-all student days in Paris. Half a baguette for the day, and a theatre ticket made me quite happy and I didn’t mind to compromise on the seat’s location.
Well, but thanks to this site sometimes you can get lucky. I was just browsing a little bit and found “a ticket for a tenner” for The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams. Called a friend, booked the tickets, and off we went on Saturday to stroll around China Town and then catch the matinee in the Apollo.
I loved it!
We had great seats in the 9th row or so, last minute bookings can be really good. It started out rather slowly, and Jessica Lange wasn’t as impressive as I had hoped (but then, who am I to judge). If you go to see a two times Oscar winner and an experienced stage actress you naturally get your hopes up.
However everyone might need some warming up on a Saturday afternoon, because the second part of the play was brilliant! Lange was fantastic, and an intense scene between Amanda Hale and Mark Umbers had me holding my breath. Ed Stoppard is great as Tom, the narrator of the play and main character. The only thing I found is that it feels a bit wrong to go out of the theatre after the play and find that it is still light outside. It just seems strange, so maybe I will avoid matinees in the future. The Glass Menagerie is unfortunately over now. But in general I can definitely recommend this venue, so watch out what is on!
Apollo Theatre
Shaftesbury Avenue
London, W1V 7DH
0870 890 1101Apollo Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue