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Tag Archives: drama
Girl from the North Country, Old Vic
Defiantly rejecting the standard jukebox model, Conor McPherson’s much-anticipated new work mining the back catalogue of Bob Dylan is labelled “a play with songs” – or perhaps that should be a play and songs, with two distinct forms of storytelling weaving around … Continue reading
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Tagged 1930s, america, bob dylan, broadwayworld, bronagh gallagher, ciaran hinds, conor mcpherson, drama, duluth, forever young, girl from the north country, great depression, like a rolling stone, minnesota, music, musical, old vic, play, review, ron cook, shirley henderson, singing, song
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BWW Interview: Bronagh Gallagher
The actress and musician talks Conor McPherson’s new Bob Dylan-infused play Girl from the North Country. Read my full BroadwayWorld interview here
Posted in Journalism, Theatre
Tagged actress, america, bob dylan, broadwayworld, bronagh gallagher, conor mcpherson, drama, girl from the north country, interview, london, minnesota, music, old vic, play, singer, singing, theatre
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Touch, Soho Theatre
Neat freaks beware: Touch is your ultimate nightmare. This latest offering from DryWrite, the company that launched the now stratospheric Fleabag, centres on another woman with a chaotic personal life – this time, mirrored by the symphony of filth that is her cramped … Continue reading
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Tagged amy morgan, bdsm, broadwayworld, comedy, drama, DryWrite, female, feminism, feminist, fleabag, kink, london, love, phoebe waller-bridge, play, review, romance, sex, soho theatre, taboo, theatre, touch, vicky jones, welsh, woman
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All Change Please, Lucy Kerbel
Another week, another dispiriting gender equality statistic, as research by The Stage reveals 75% of West End musicals staged in the past decade had no women on their writing teams; removing jukebox shows from the equation, just 9% featured music by female composers. … Continue reading
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Tagged all change please, book, broadwayworld, drama, equality, female, feminism, feminist, gender, girl, kids, lucy kerbel, musical, play, review, theatre, tonic theatre, west end, woman, women, youth
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Grand Designs
Set designer Bunny Christie talks Curious Incident, People, Places & Things and Phyllida Lloyd’s all-female Shakespeare Trilogy. Read my full Oryx magazine interview here
Posted in Journalism, Theatre
Tagged all female, backstage, bunny christie, design, designer, donmar warehouse, drama, ink, julius caear, kings cross theatre, london, national theatre, oryx magazine, people places and things, phyllida lloyd, play, set designer, shakespeare, the curious incident of the dog in the night-time, theatre
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Colour, architecture and thrillers
On my June MoveTo Town and Country Arts page: Pick of the month: True colours See the world in a new way, thanks to Hella Jongerius’s Design Museum exhibition Don’t miss: Architecture central Highlights of this year’s London Festival of Architecture Commuter corner Amanda … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Journalism
Tagged amanda craig, architecture, art, book, breathing colour, colour, commute, commuter, design museum, drama, exhibition, fiction, gallery, Hella Jongerius, homecoming, london festival of architecture, magazine, moveto, moveto town and country, podcast, read, the lie of the land
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Death Takes A Holiday, Charing Cross Theatre
“I’m Death.” “And you’re on holiday?” Well, there’s really no way to disguise the preposterousness of this show’s premise, nor to reconcile its winking humour and self-serious grand romance. Thus, Thom Southerland’s London premiere wisely diverts attention to its seductive … Continue reading
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Tagged charing cross theatre, chris peluso, death, death takes a holiday, donald trump, drama, first world war, great war, london, love, maury yeston, meet joe black, musical, review, romance, theartsdesk, theatre, thom southerland, world war one, zoe doano
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No Man’s Land, Wyndham’s Theatre
We are lost in the wood. In the limbo state between dream and reality, memory and present, youth and age, companionship and seclusion, life and death, struggle and success, fame and obscurity. Pinter often visits that place of in between, … Continue reading
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Tagged drama, gandalf, ian mckellen, london, lord of the rings, no man's land, owen teale, patrick stewart, pinter, play, review, sean mathias, star strek, theartsdesk, theatre, west end, wyndhams theatre, x men
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Things I Know To Be True, Lyric Hammersmith
Growing up is a kind of grief: losing the person you once were to embrace the person you will become. That loss can fracture familial relationships, forced to adjust and reform as offspring alter, challenge, question and move away – … Continue reading
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Tagged andrew bovell, australia, child, drama, family, frantic assembly, london, lyric hammersmith, parent, play, review, state theatre company, theatre, things i know to be true
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Spellbinding story of Selassie
Colin Teevan has created an extraordinary showcase for the chameleonic Kathryn Hunter in this adaptation of Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski’s book about the fall of Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, in 1974. Hunter embodies a dozen of Selassie’s loyal flunkeys, … Continue reading
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Tagged colin teevan, drama, ethiopia, haile selassi, ham and high, kathryn hunter, london, play, review, the emperor, theatre, young vic
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