1/5 P B. 4 months ago on Google
Disappointed.
Is
the
Young
Vic
a
theatre
with
bar
and
restaurant
attached?
Or
bar
and
restaurant
that
happens
to
have
a
theatre
in
it?
On
Friday
night,
I
went
to
see
The
Homecoming
with
a
friend
from
the
US
I
hadn’t
seen
in
years.
During
the
intermission,
we
queued
awhile
to
get
drinks
and
then
chatted
away.
Sometime
later,
my
friend
wondered
when
the
intermission
ended
so
we
walked
back
and
found
the
show
started
five
minutes
previously
and
they
would
not
let
us
back
in.
Sure,
I
could’ve
set
a
timer
or
been
more
vigilant
however,
in
most
theatres
I’ve
been
to,
the
bell
or
other
arrangements
that
signal
the
end
of
the
intermission
are
pretty
unmissable.
At
this
place,
however,
the
problem
is
that
the
bar
and
restaurant
are
full
of
people
anyway,
so
if
you
don’t
pre-order
drinks
take
awhile
then
it’s
also
quite
easy
to
mistake
other
people
in
the
bar
and
restaurant
for
theatregoers
and
to
not
notice
people
heading
back
into
the
theatre
when
the
play
is
about
to
begin
again.
A
loud,
unmistakable
bell,
and
maybe
even
a
flashing
light
how
difficult
would
that
be?
Based
based
on
reviews
here
a
couple
of
people
seem
to
have
had
the
same
problem
on
previous
occasions.
As
the
theatre
doesn’t
seem
to
have
responded
to
any
other
feedback
here
I
doubt
they’ll
do
much
about
this
which
is
disappointing.