Campbell5 said: "Hi, what are the best seat locations for this at St. Ann's?"
I sat in Iran and thought it was perfect. I had a good vantage point to see everything in the space, but I also felt like I was part of the action. Only problem is you're sitting on a cushion, not a chair. But you are on a raised platform, and you can lean back on the wall behind you.
The seats very close to the stage (Afghanistan and Sudan) will likely feel REALLY in the action, but you may also have to crane your neck up to look at the actors. They also looked somewhat cramped to me.
Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia are probably the closest thing to the "proscenium" seats - as in, it's a larger group of seats looking at the action head-on from the "front." I would imagine that those seats would provide a great view, but if you're in the back you might feel comparatively far away from the action.
IIRC, Iraq and Kuwait are in slightly closed off areas raised slightly above the rest.
I'm probably biased, because we all like to think that "MY seats were the BEST seats" (just like we always think this "the cast I saw was the BEST cast". But in reality, I'm sure most seats in the house make for a great experience.
Looking at cushion $36 seats and have choice between Yemen & Kurdistan (close to rear stage entrance and at stage level) and Egypt (5th row further back but wider view of stage).
I hear it is immersive but will Yemen & Kurdistan seats get more views the actors backs?
I went with a cushion seat in Egypt (Egypt 3). It seemed like a better view of the stage based on the chart. Most seats were sold in that section too for other dates, so my assumption was that it has a better view.
GreasedLightning said: "From these images vs. the seating chart I’m trying to figure out where exactly Yemen/Kurdistan/Iran/Egypt are. Help!"
I think the audience layout in those photo is slightly different the layout at St. Ann's. But Yemen would be on the floor underneath where it says "restaurant" in the photo. And Kurdistan is just the same area but on the other side of that central curtain.