Having been appointed Rose Theatre’s artistic director in January 2020, Christopher Haydon was prevented from announcing his inaugural season until now due to Covid-19. With an emphasis on the female voice, the season will include five Rose Original productions – including two world premieres and a new version of an epic Brechtian masterpiece.
‘Uncomfortable mix of the ancient and the modern’: ELECTRA – Bunker Theatre
Enjoyable performances, but I really do wish there had been less words in Electra at the Bunker Theatre, and more music and sharper storytelling.
‘Leads us down the path taken by a once great nation’: Fear & Misery of theThirdReich – Brockley Jack Theatre ★★★★
With some super performances, smart direction and staging, this is a production that is well worth seeking out.
PHOTO: First look at Aequitas Theatre’s modern #MAGA take on Brecht’s Fear & Misery of the Third Reich
From Nazi Germany to Trump’s America? Aequitas Theatre’s modern update on Bertolt Brecht’s 1944 classic Fear and Misery of the Third Reich has just started performances at London’s Brockley Jack Theatre. Sneak a peek at our the production shots before it opens to critics – and then get booking!
FEATURED SHOW: Why is Aequitas Theatre’s revival of Fear & Misery of the Third Reich so timely?
A warning from history? Aequitas Theatre relocates Bertolt Brecht’s 1944 modern classic Fear and Misery of the Third Reich in the near future for a timely revival, starting performances this week at London’s Brockley Jack Theatre, where it’s running until 3 February 2018.
MOTHER COURAGE & HER CHILDREN – Southwark Playhouse ★★★
Josie Lawrence gives a great performance as Mother Courage despite the heartache she endured on a daily basis. Giving such a poignant performance you feel like her “On stage” children were her own the way she protects them.
MOTHER COURAGE & HER CHILDREN – Southwark Playhouse ★★★
Josie Lawrence gives a great performance as Mother Courage despite the heartache she endured on a daily basis. Giving such a poignant performance you feel like her “On stage” children were her own the way she protects them.
MOTHER COURAGE & HER CHILDREN – Southwark Playhouse ★★★★
Josie Lawrence is an absolute triumph, embracing the audience on her journey from cocky tradeswoman to a woman that Mother Courage would be ashamed of, so downtrodden is her outlook and situation.
SAINT GEORGE & THE DRAGON – National Theatre
After DC Moore’s flawed Common comes Mullarkey’s similarly flawed Saint George and the Dragon. Taking the myth of George, the legendary dragon slayer and rescuer of damsels in distress, the playwright wraps the folktale in the flag of our nation’s story.
NEWS: Full cast announced to join Josie Lawrence in Brecht’s Mother Courage
Final casting has been announced to join multi award-winning actor-comedian Josie Lawrence in a new production of Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children at London’s Southwark Playhouse.
NEWS: Josie Lawrence stars as Brecht’s Mother Courage at Southwark Playhouse
Josie Lawrence takes the title role in a new production of Brecht’s 1939 classic Mother Courage and Her Children at London’s Southwark Playhouse in November.
LIFE OF GALILEO – Young Vic
Whatever you may think about Bertolt Brecht’s more doctrinaire views, here’s a play in Joe Wright’s visually spectacular, star-gazing production that says exactly what needs to be said for a society reeling from and dominated by self-interest and finance.
REVIEW ROUND-UP: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui at Donmar Warehouse
Lenny Henry makes his Donmar debut in the theatre’s revival of Bertolt Brecht’s play. Here is what critics have been saying about the production so far.
THE RESISTABLE RISE OF ARTURO UI – Donmar Warehouse
Well, to start at the end, I can’t remember a more personally `engaged’ ending than Simon Evans manufactures for the climax of Brecht’s 1940s political satire on the rise of Hitler in an American gangland setting.
PHOTOS: Lenny Henry goes full gangster as Donmar’s Arturo Ui
Take a look at all the production photos of the Donmar’s new take on Brecht’s The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, led by Lenny Henry, making his Donmar debut.
PHOTOS: Inside rehearsals with Lenny Henry & the Artuor Ui cast
Rehearsals are well under way for Bruce Norris’ new translation of Bertolt Brecht’s satirical masterpiece The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, directed by Simon Evans with design by Peter McKintosh. The production, led by Lenny Henry who makes his Donmar debut playing the title role, runs 21 April to 17 June 2017, with a press night on 2 May. Rehearsals photos …
What would Bertolt Brecht think of Donald Trump?
What would Bertolt Brecht have made of Donald Trump? Brecht’s “epic theatre” was sparked by the rise of Nazism in 1930s Germany. Many pundits have likened the political period we’ve now entered with that dark decade of the twentieth century.
THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE – Greenwich Theatre
A modern master of the ‘play within in a play’, Bertolt Brecht’s epic theatre piece The Caucasian Chalk Circle is as relevant a political commentary today as it was in the 1940s.
THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE – Greenwich Theatre
A modern master of the ‘play within in a play’, Bertolt Brecht’s epic theatre piece The Caucasian Chalk Circle is as relevant a political commentary today as it was in the 1940s.
New post-show panel debate: Terri hosts discussion on political theatre at The Caucasian Chalk Circle
As part of her post-show Q&A series, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will host a post-show panel discussion on political theatre following Lazarus Theatre’s acclaimed production of Brecht’s The Caucasian Chalk Circle at Greenwich Theatre on Thursday 30 March 2017.
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