Autumn 2008 customer feedback

As many of you know, after every performance we send out a survey via email to all the people who booked. Over the last year and a bit, we've built up a huge database of customer's comments on the theatre, on the service and on the shows.

We do this because we want to know what you like and what you don't, so we can carry on providing you with the kind of experience you would come back to Northern Stage for. That means that sometimes we hear things we need to, things we don't want to, and things we disagree with. Even so, we still want to hear them and we think that you'll be interested in hearing them too.

Therefore, you'll find below links to the complete set of customer feedback comments for each of the shows since September. They're in PDF format, as most people will have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed. Please take the time to read them, and use the comments section below to give us your thoughts. We've not edited them at all, except to remove customers names for purposes of anonymity.

In time, all these will be added into the Archive section, helping to build a history of the shows we've put on and received. Look out for feedback running back to September 2007 over the Christmas period.

Hofesh Shechter: In Your Rooms/Uprising
Northern Stage: The Bloody Chamber
ETT: Far From the Madding Crowd
Freedom Studios: Happy & Married?
Theatre O: Delirium
metisARTS: Four Men and a Poker Game

Post your Poker stories

Is Poker like life? Or is life like poker?
Have you ever won, only to lose? – Or lost all, only to come up trumps?

Welcome to the ‘poker stories’ blog.

What’s it all about?

Whilst creating a performance at Northern Stage in which a man tells a tale about poker, people started to tell us their own stories, anecdotes and experiences of the game of poker.

Four Men and a Poker Game looks at what happens when you think you can keep winning; regardless of the consequences. You could see it as a story about capitalism – especially at the moment!

We are collecting stories, true tales, tall tales, anecdotes and accounts about big wins and great losses in the world of poker – or the game of life.

So, will you take risks in today’s economic climate?
Are we living our lives like a game of chance?
Have you ever bluffed your way through a situation, with a poker face?

Do you use the following phrases in conversation?
Winner takes all / Coming up trumps / Bluffing / Going all in… Or are there other poker phrases you use in everyday life?

You don’t have to be a poker player to contribute – but just someone with a story to tell!

We are giving away some pairs of free tickets to the Friday and Saturday performances at 9.45 pm – if you send your contact details to info@metisarts.co.uk when you send your story, we will enter you in the draw. The winners will be informed by the 10th November.

Everyone who submits a story will be invited to a launch for the exhibition at Northern Stage, which will combine stories with the history of poker.

You can email us your story – info@metisarts.co.uk – and we will post it in the blog – or just paste your story into the comments section below (don’t forget to email us your contact details if you want to win a free ticket)