Posts tagged "play"
Closer - a play by Patrick Marber The Donmar Warehouse until 4th April 2015 www.donmarwarehouse.com The Donmar Warehouse’s revival of Patrick Marber’s 1997 award winning play has not mellowed at all and has become an even more brutal undressing of relationships. To state the obvious it’s a very male view of the world. The plot revolves round two couples entangled in some hard core emotional debates: love versus sex, truth versus...
Henry IV - a play by William Shakespeare Until 29th November 2014 www.donmarwarehouse.com Director, Phyllida Lloyd has a very different take on Shakespeare’s history play which focusses on the themes of kingship, coming of age and honour. For one, in a play that is highly masculine, there is an all female cast and that the cast is housed in the setting of a jail appears to highlight gender inequality and...
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams Live broadcast of the Young Vic’s production at the Curzon Cinema, 16th September 2014 This is perhaps Tennessee Williams’ greatest play and certainly his most famous. This time the director, Benedict Andrews, mixes the original 1947 play with a more contemporary setting, including a revolving stage which serves as a harsh symbol of the lead character’s downward spiral to insanity. Gillian Anderson’s portrayal...
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...
To Kill a Mockingbird – based on the novel by Harper Lee Regent’s Park Open Air – until 13th September 2014 Actors, each clutching a different edition of Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel, emerge from the audience and walk up the steps to the open air stage. The actors turn out to be narrators as they take it in turn to read passages from the powerful story of racial...
My Night with Reg a play by Kevin Elyot The Donmar Warehouse – until 27th September 2014 www.donmarwarehouse.com Alcohol flows and fags are chain smoked while David Bowie’s Starman belts out, hitting everyone in the audience. The scene is set for the revival of Kevin Elyot’s award-winning 1994 comedy, My Night with Reg, which charts the lives and loves of six gay men and what a night it turns...
Privacy by James Graham The Donmar Warehouse - until 31st May 2014 Are you really who you think you are? The power of technology and its ultimately sinister and intrusive consequences are revealed in James Graham’s new play. The story is both engaging and alarming as the inventive cast take on multiple roles and interact with the audience. Please ensure your mobile devices are switched on in order to...
Velocity by Daniel Macdonald Finborough Theatre until 13th May 2014 Dot is 15 and indulging in sex and drugs but her parents don't care. She craves their attention. Dot conducts her school science project on velocity by interviewing her parents. Yet this is no ordinary interview - her father is to be blown up and sent crashing down from his office on the 72nd Floor. According to Dot’s...
King Charles III by Mike Bartlett Almeida Theatre - until 31st May 2014 - West End transfer to Wyndham's Theatre until 31st January 2015 - The Queen is dead. Charles is pronounced King. Labour, apparently without Ed Miliband, is in power. The Duchess of Cambridge morphs into Lady Macbeth while Prince Harry discovers scotch eggs – better together? What follows is a clever creation of a future history play, drawing...
Therese Raquin by Emile Zola Music by Craig Adams Book and Lyrics by Nona Shepphard Finborough Theatre - playing until 19th April 2014 The audience is immediately hit by the intensity created by Craig Adams and Nona Shepphard in their musical adaptation of Zola's novel depicting love and despair. 12 actors, some in multiple roles, form an intricate physical puzzle in a space so tiny that the viewer is...