Posts tagged "almeida"
Carmen Disruption – a play by Simon Stephens Almeida Theatre until 23rd May 2015 A mechanical bull, panting its last breath lies centre stage and is surrounded by ramshackle bricks to depict some nameless European city. Simon Stephen’s play is lightly based on Bizet opera but heavy on symbolism. Is the dying bull gasping the last days of capitalism in what had been a tightly fought UK election camapaign...
Game – a play by Mike Bartlett At the Almeida Theatre until 4th April 2015 www.almeida.co.uk Rumour has it that pop and style legend, David Bowie, would sit down for ten minutes and, over a cup of coffee, write one of his many enduring hits. Mike Bartlett, who has delivered thought provoking plays, which include King Charles III, My Child and Bull, also probably sat down, coffee in hand, and...
Little Revolution by Alecky Blythe Almeida Theatre until 4th October 2014 www.almeida.co.uk During the summer of 2011, Hackney witnessed riots and looting, or in one character’s words “a little revolution”. Alecky Blythe’s verbatim play focuses more on the onlookers rather than the instigators and perhaps asks more questions than providing answers. It is thought provoking and well executed but quite disjointed and runs more like a documentary rather than...
Theatre – 1984 Headlong’s stage version of the novel by George Orwell The Almeida Theatre The question that everybody has is how to translate George Orwell’s masterpiece of a frightening dystopian vision to the theatre. Enter the creative team of Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan with their chilling stage adaptation and, as if to celebrate, this startling production appears 30 years after 1984. The action is played...