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TRAFALGAR STUDIOS TWO
(Formerly the Whitehall Theatre)
For TRAFALGAR STUDIOS ONE, Click Here.


WELL (play)
Previews from 4th September, opens 10th September 2008. Ends 27th September 2008.

Lisa and her mother from Middle USA share a stage. Lisa is a professional performer, her mother is not. Lisa was ill for a long time, her mother healed a neighbourhood. Lisa wants to tell a story, her mother isn't as shy as Lisa thinks.

Lisa Kron's play is performed by Sarah Miles and Natalie Casey, directed by Eve Leigh.
 
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Performance Schedule:
The monkey advises checking performance times on your tickets and that performances are happening as scheduled, before travelling.

Monday to Saturday at 7.45pm (10th September 2008 at 7pm)
Tuesdays and Saturdays at 3pm and 7.45pm

 

Ticket Prices:

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Monday Evenings: £15
All Other Performances: £22.50

Concessions: £15 (excluding Friday and Saturday Evenings). Call the venue for details of applicable performances and to check your eligibility for this discount on 0870 060 6632.
 

 

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Buying Tickets Online:

Other Box Office Information

Tickets offered differ between outlets. Outlets also may offer different seats via their phone and online systems. Offers may be available click here.
Theatre Box Office:
Ambassador Theatre Group, the theatre group's own website provide the service for this theatre.
This site allows you to select your own seats from those available.
 

Booking fees per transaction for online bookings:
£3 per transaction (not per ticket) fee is made - towards the healing, thinks the monkey.

Other Online Choices (with S.T.A.R. genuine ticket agencies):

www.ticketmaster.co.uk provide an alternative with the same fee as the box office - £3 per booking NOT per ticket applies to each transaction - the same as by telephone. Be aware that the computer offers tickets at random. If you are unhappy with its choice, keep re-selecting using the "Back" button on your browser, NOT the "reselect button" on the page, until you get tickets you consider worthwhile. Note that the tickets offered may differ between phone and online sources.

Other Independent S.T.A.R. ticket agencies may also offer an alternative choice of seats.


 

Box Office Information:
Tickets offered differ between outlets. Outlets also may offer different seats via their phone and online systems. Offers may be available click here.
Theatre Box Office:
Telephone: 0870 060 6632
( 020 8544 7424 if you cannot use the 0870 number)
Operated by the Ambassador Theatre group's own phoneroom from 9am until 10pm (Sundays 10am until 8pm). Outside these hours the Ticketmaster agency answer calls on their behalf.

Booking fees per transaction for telephone bookings:
£2.50 per transaction (not per ticket) fee is made - towards the sled, thinks the monkey.


For personal callers or by post: Trafalgar Studios Theatre, Whitehall, London. SW1A 2DY
No booking fee for personal callers.

Special Access Needs Customers:
Wheelchair users and other registered disabled theatregoers can book their seats on 0844 8717 677 and enquire about concessionary prices that may be available to them. The wheelchair users line connects directly to the theatre chain central phoneroom in London during working hours. See Notes.

 

 
 
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Theatre Seat Opinions:
Please remember that cheaper seats often do not offer the same view / location quality as top price ones, and that ticket prices are designed to reflect this difference.

Seating Plan Diagram

Notes
This theatre has flexible seating. For the current season this is the Seating Plan.

On first viewing, the monkey gained the following impression. Obviously it takes time for a new venue to "settle in", and reader comments are particularly welcome: Contact Us.

Imagine the Donmar Warehouse Theatre indulging in a romance with a cute little Edinburgh Fringe venue. The Trafalgar Studio Two is most certainly how any offspring would look. A small, black painted room in space that was formerly the rear stalls of the old Whitehall Theatre. The low ceiling was originally that of the Whitehall dress circle, and is now the floor of Studio One above. The cornflake box shaped space is compact, with attention focussed on a wide but shallow stage space at floor level. The sort of space that any director would want to try small but intricate theatrical experiments in, feels the monkey.

Like the Donmar Warehouse stalls, seating is on three sides of the action. It comprises modestly comfy padded "tip up" benches that can be moved to suit production needs. No arm-rests between seats, and each bench tips to provide two seats - allocating about 50cm per person, guesstimates the monkey. Arrive early to stake out your claim on your portion. There is a shallow but probably sufficient rake to the seating, meaning that only an exceptionally tall person in front of you is likely cause a problem.

Reader Kevin Hailes found a teething problem in December 2005 (since corrected!):
"We had row A seats 1 and 2 and ended up having a row with a woman who was plonked right in the middle. Let me explain - the seats are pull down style and each one is supposed to seat two people. The seat numbers are on the underside of each pull down section. Rather bizarrely seats 1 and 2 on row A also have number 3 on them as well - consequently 3 people on one pull down section designed for two."

There are no pillars or other obstructions to interrupt the view, the only drawback is that at the extreme ends of the side blocks - rows A to D seat 1 and row A22, B29 and C39 - the rows end not in an aisle but metal barriers. Some may find this either claustrophobic or mildly irritating - the monkey didn't, but thought others might like to know. Shortest people may find the corner end in their eye line, it felt.

The central block of seats probably should be taken first purely as the actors may choose to centre performances, but the side blocks most likely won't miss out on anything, being such a small space. Prime in the centre block are row A, row B seats 20 and 21 and row C 9 to 12 and 28 as they have the most legroom. Nothing in front of any of these seats, take row A first, then B, then C 28 or 12 to 9 in that order for maximum comfort.

Next for comfort are row C seats 29 and 30. These are at the top of an aisle, at a forty-five degree angle to the stage. If you are happy with the slightly different viewing angle, good hunting may well be found here, feels the monkey. In the side blocks, row B seat 22 also has nothing in front of it and should be your next choice, along with side blocks row A.

Row B seat 23, and row C seats 8 and 13 have legroom for one leg, as the row in front is "staggered," beginning half way across the width of these seats. In B23 and C13 the space is on your right side, C8 on your left - check when booking that nothing has been altered, though, if such detail is vital to your comfort, as things can change in any flexible venue.

Moving round to the side blocks, once past the legroom of row A, the other item of note is to be aware that row D has a sound control desk behind it. Purists may dislike this, though it is high enough above the row not to bother any but the paranoid who may fear problems from "on high!"

Once the "legroom lovers" and pedants have been satisfied, of the rest of the seats, the monkey would take centre block row B then C first, followed by aisle seats in the side blocks.

Apart from the front row, and seat numbers highlighted in other rows, legroom in all other seats is extremely tight. For someone 5ft 7 there is minimal gap between the edge of your seat and the one in front once sitting. For anyone much taller this could well become exceptionally uncomfortable quite quickly, especially when the auditorium is full.

 

 

Notes
Seats 98 approximately, depending on production demands.

No food except Ice cream and confectionery.

Two bars; Foyer and Stalls. Foyer bar not always in use. 
Barfly Lucy comments that:
"The Stalls bar was good, although tended to get a bit busy closer to the show, it's almost like a 'holding pen' for people to wait before they go in because there's not really a foyer."

4 Toilets; Stalls leading from the bar: 1 gents 2 cubicles, 1 ladies 3 cubicles; At circle level near the entrance to the highest rear rows of the theatre, there is another: 1 gents 1 cubicle, 1 ladies 4 cubicles.

The fabric covering the seats is bright red, being the favourite colour of benefactor Christina Smith, without whose generosity this theatre would not have been possible. The monkey salutes her here!


 

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Getting to this Theatre
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Nearest Underground Station:
Charing Cross - Bakerloo (brown) and Northern (black) lines. Also Main rail network terminus.

Plan your tube journey to this station using the button below:

For a photograph illustrated version of this walking route, click here.

Leave the station by following signs from the platforms to the STRAND street exits. Walk straight ahead into the underground shopping arcade and keep going straight on into the light. If, underground, you pass Davenports Magic shop, turn around and walk the other way.

Take the left-hand staircase up to street level. In front of you is a very busy road, the Strand. Brook Street Employment Agency must be on your right as you face the road.

If you see a sidestreet, with Brook Street Employment Agency on your left, turn around and walk towards the busy road instead - you took the wrong stairs.

Now facing the busy road: Walk to it and turn to your left. Walk towards Trafalgar Square - the big open area in front of you! You'll cross the front of Charing Cross station as you walk there, so mind out for the taxi entrances.

Go straight on, and follow the street as it curves. Use the first  pedestrian crossing that you come to to cross Northumberland Avenue. Once over it, turn slightly right (so you face into Trafalgar Square) and follow the path around the big building in front of you. 

Once around it, bear left at the next street you come to. Use the pedestrian crossing to cross to the theatre, which will be ahead of you to your left down the street called Whitehall.

 

Buses:
3, 11, 12, 24, 53, 77, 77A, 88, 91, 139, 159 and 453  stop nearby.

 

Car Park:
Spring Gardens. On leaving the car park walk into Trafalgar Square. The first major road you come to is Whitehall. Turn down it and the theatre is clearly visible in the same side of the road. Call Westminster City Council car parks on 0800 243 348 or see www.westminster.gov.uk/carparks for details. At this car park, parking under the "Theatreland Parking Scheme" allows a 50% discount in cost. Spaces CANNOT be reserved at these prices, so choose whether you would prefer to book and pay more, or use this scheme.

If you choose the "Theatreland Parking Scheme", you must get your car park ticket validated at the theatre's box office counter (the theatre attendant will insert the car parking ticket into a small machine which updates the information held on the magnetic strip on the reverse, thus enabling the discount). When you pay using the machines at the car park, 50% will be deducted from the full tariff. You may park for up to 72 hours using this scheme and it is endorsed by the Society of London Theatre.

For a full list of car parks that participate in the 50% off theatreland scheme here see www.westminster.gov.uk/carparks/theatreland.cfm, and for a full list of theatres that participate in the scheme see www.westminster.gov.uk/carparks/theatres.cfm.

 

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