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‘This is how loss feels’: how a Netflix animation about grief became a global phenomenon
One of the year’s most unlikely phenomena on the video-sharing app TikTok saw 50 million people – and counting – recording themselves crying while watching a 12-minute animation. Not since the heart-wrenching opening sequence of Up have viewers been so undone … Continue reading
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Tagged animated, animation, director, film, grief, If Anything Happens I Love You, interview, loss, Michael Govier, movie, netflix, oscar, school shooting, short film, telegraph, tiktok, Will McCormack, writer
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BWW Interview: Alice Hamilton
The director talks helming Harold Pinter’s The Dumb Waiter at Hampstead Theatre – and how it chimes with Covid times. Read my full BroadwayWorld interview here
Posted in Journalism, Theatre
Tagged alice hamilton, broadwayworld, director, drama, hampstead theatre, harold pinter, interview, london, play, the dumb waiter, theatre
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Kwame Kwei-Armah interview
I spoke to the Young Vic’s Artistic Director about his theatre journey, ahead of a dedicated BBC imagine documentary. Read my full The i Paper interview here
Posted in Journalism, Theatre, TV
Tagged actor, alan yentob, artistic director, bbc, bbc imagine, black, black lives matter, casualty, coronavirus, death of a salesman, director, documentary, elminas kitchen, fairview, immigrant, interview, kwame kwei-armah, lockdown, london, play, playwright, race, the arts, the i paper, theatre, tv, writer, young vic
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BWW Interview: Anthony Alderson
The Artistic Director of the Pleasance discusses his time at the helm, dealing with the cancellation of this year’s Festival, and what the shutdown means for theatre. Read my full BroadwayWorld interview here
Posted in Journalism, Theatre
Tagged anthony alderson, broadwayworld, cancelled, director, edinburgh, festival, fringe, interview, islington, london, plays, pleasance, theatre
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BWW Interview: Kumiko Mendl
The Artistic Director talks 25 years of Yellow Earth Theatre. Read my full BroadwayWorld interview here
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Tagged actor, arts, asian, british east asian, broadwayworld, company, coronavirus, director, east asian, interview, Kumiko Mendl, play, shutdown, theatre, yellow earth theatre
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Noises Off, Garrick Theatre
“Doors and sardines. Getting on, getting off. Getting the sardines on, getting the sardines off. That’s farce. That’s the theatre. That’s life.” Michael Frayn’s laugh-til-you-weep backstage comedy transfers from the Lyric Hammersmith (where it first appeared in 1982), and Jeremy Herrin’s superb revival has … Continue reading
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Tagged actor, backstage, bedroom farce, book tickets, comedy, daniel rigby, director, farce, funny, garrick theatre, humour, jeremy herrin, lisa mcgrillis, lloyd owen, lyric hammersmith, meera syal, michael frayn, noises off, play, play within a play, review, sarah hadland, theartsdesk, theatre, west end
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Book Review: Come From Away: Welcome to the Rock
This new illustrated companion volume to Irene Sankoff and David Hein’s Tony and Olivier Award-winning musical Come From Away, which tells the remarkable true story of a small Newfoundland town that welcomed stranded air passengers on 9/11, is just as … Continue reading
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Tagged 9/11, actors, book, book tickets, broadway, broadwayworld, canada, canadian, christopher ashley, come from away, come from away welcome to the rock, companion, director, hachette books, history, images, lin-manuel miranda, musical, newfoundland, photos, pictures, planes, read, review, souvenir, west end
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Noises Off, Lyric Hammersmith
Do not anger the theatre gods, for their vengeance is swift and mighty. On press night of Michael Frayn’s peerless portrait of backstage disasters, the Lyric suffered its own “technical difficulties”, adding a distinctly meta frisson to this already gloriously … Continue reading
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Tagged actors, backstage, bedroom farce, book tickets, broadwayworld, cheap tickets, comedy, director, farce, jeremy herrin, london, lyric hammersmith, meera syal, michael frayn, noises off, review, sex, slapstick, summer, theatre, ticket deal
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Book review: Dramatic Exchanges, ed. Daniel Rosenthal
This fascinating tome offers an insider’s history of the National Theatre, via some 800 letters exchanged between Artistic Directors, actors, directors, playwrights, politicians, agents, critics and more. From arcane trivia through to vigorous words on the very nature and purpose … Continue reading
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Tagged actor, amadeus, arthur miller, artistic director, book, broadwayworld, daniel rosenthal, director, dramatic exchanges, eileen atkins, harold pinter, harry potter, history, ian mckellen, john osborne, judi dench, laurence olivier, letter, maggie smith, national theatre, paul mccartney, peter hall, play, review, the crucible, the curious incident, the history boys, theatre, tom stoppard
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BWW Interview: Robert North
The choreographer discusses the creation and enduring popularity of The Snowman. Read my full BroadwayWorld interview here
Posted in Dance, Journalism, Theatre
Tagged ballet, book tickets, broadwayworld, cheap tickets, children, choreographer, christmas, dance, dancing, director, family, interview, kids, london, peacock theatre, raymond briggs, robert north, sadlers wells, the snowman, ticket deal, visit london, we're walking in the air, young audience
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