Boxes at the Trafalgar Theatre

None of the four is on sale for Oh, Mary!

Where they are

Four, and they are not where most people expect.

• The Royal Box holds 4 seats, at Stalls level, alongside Stalls rows H to L. It is the best of them and it is downstairs, not up in the circle
• The Lorne Box holds 4 seats at Dress Circle level, alongside Dress Circle rows B to E
• Box A holds 2 seats at Dress Circle level, alongside rows H to J
• Box B faces it from the opposite side, also two seats

There is a fifth, a twin of the Lorne Box on the other side of the auditorium, which is not in use.

What you would see

Every Box here is side-on to the stage, and this is a 630-seat theatre. In a bigger theatre a Box buys you a private position that is otherwise unavailable; here the ordinary seats are already close, and turning side-on costs you a part of the stage picture that a seat in the body of the auditorium keeps.

The theatre does not publish a view from inside any of them, and neither the Royal Box nor the two small Boxes appear on the standard seating map.

What to book instead

At the money a Box would cost, the two best blocks in the building are both on sale.

• Stalls E to H, centre, at £144 for the current production. Square on, a few feet from the stage, and nothing in the way
• Dress Circle B and C, centre, at the same £144. The whole stage in one frame, from a steep rake with nothing above it

If what you want is the occasion rather than the view, four seats together in the centre of the Stalls will do the job here better than a Box will.