Emma Rice’s production based on Michael Morpurgo’s novel The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips is now playing at Shakespeare’s Globe until 11 September 2016. But what have critics said about it
TICKETS: Mark’s Top Ten recommendations this week (20 June)
In Mark Shenton’s regularly updated list of top ten ticket recommendations, new entries this week include The Spoils, Blue/Orange, The Deep Blue Sea and The Go-Between.
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM – Shakespeare’s Globe
Anarchy! It’s not what you expect from a Shakespeare play… even one that has been performed in as many ways as A
Midsummer Night’s Dream has been tackled. Emma Rice’s debut piece in her first season as Artistic Director for the Globe throws the rulebook right out of the window though with performers wearing head mics, set dressing seemingly hanging from the sky and a distinctly non-reverential approach to William’s words.
TICKETS: Mark’s Top Ten recommendations this week (30 May)
New entries this week are The Invisible Hand at the Tricycle Theatre and The 3 Penny Opera at the Natonal, and its the last chance to see Les Blancs, The Flick and People, Places and Things
NEWS: Globe announces Emma Rice’s debut winter season
Shakespeare’s Globe has announced Artistic Director Emma Rice’s first Winter season in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. The Wonder Noir Winter season will run at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse from the 26th October until the 16th April 2017.
TICKETS: Mark’s Top Ten recommendations this week (9 May)
New entries this week are the return of Funny Girl, transferred from the Menier to the Savoy, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Globe.
Will Doctor Who Sell You on Shakespeare?
The Beeb wheeled out Peter Capaldi for its launch of A Midsummer Night’s Dream due to air on BBC1 at the end of May. Not because he’s in it but because the entire play, adapted to an ‘accessible’ 90 minutes by Who’s reinventor Russell T Davies and filmed with the special effects team at Roath Lock in Cardiff where Dr Who is made, it’s fashioned specifically for Whovian fans.
Will Doctor Who Sell You on Shakespeare?
The Beeb wheeled out Peter Capaldi for its launch of A Midsummer Night’s Dream due to air on BBC1 at the end of May. Not because he’s in it but because the entire play, adapted to an ‘accessible’ 90 minutes by Who’s reinventor Russell T Davies and filmed with the special effects team at Roath Lock in Cardiff where Dr Who is made, it’s fashioned specifically for Whovian fans.
REVIEW ROUND-UP: A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Shakespeare’s Globe
Emma Rice’s first production as Artistic Director of the Shakespeare’s Globe officially opened this week – but have critics been saying about it? A Midsummer Night’s Dream continues in rep until 11 September 2016.
NEWS: Meow Meow, Ray Fearon & Tara Fitzgerald star in Rice’s first Globe season
Shakespeare’s Globe is delighted to announce casting for Emma Rice’s inaugural season as Artistic Director. Singing sensation and performance artist Meow Meow will play Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, from 30 April. From 18 June, Tara Fitzgerald will play Lady Macbeth, opposite Ray Fearon in the eponymous role.
NEWS: Kneehigh comes to the Globe in Emma Rice’s first season
Shakespeare’s Globe is delighted to announce Emma Rice’s inaugural season as Artistic Director. The 2016 Wonder Season will open with A Midsummer Night’s Dream on Saturday 30 April, followed by The Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth, 946 The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips and Imogen. Jonathan Munby’s The Merchant of Venice, starring Jonathan Pryce, will open at the Liverpool Playhouse, …
REBECCA – Touring
Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again ……….? Well, actually, I did because I saw Rebecca the play at the Mayflower Southampton. Was it as great as I’d remembered it?
REBECCA – Touring
There’s no doubt that Emma Rice’s adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s classic novel is unique, powerful and faithful to the story, but it’s not quite what you might expect.
NEWS: Kneehigh’s Rebecca Heads to The Mayflower
REBECCA is
timeless; the book beloved by generations and the iconic Alfred
Hitchcock Oscar winning film a classic. Now REBECCA arrives on the stage! Emma
Rice, the award winning director, has created a spellbinding new production of
Daphne du Maurier’s masterpiece which conjures Cornish romance and theatrical
magic. REBECCA is at Mayflower Theatre from 30 November – 5
December 2015.
Following the
mysterious death of his first wife, Maxim de Winter returns to Manderley with
his new young bride. Surrounded by memories of the glamorous Rebecca, the
new Mrs De Winter is consumed by jealousy. She sets out to uncover
the secrets of the house and a past fiercely guarded by the sinister
housekeeper Mrs Danvers. All is not what it seems in Manderley…
The cast is led by TRISTAN
STURROCK as Maxim de Winter, EMILY RAYMOND as Mrs Danvers with
Richard Clews, Katy Owen, Ewan Wardrop, Andy Williams, Lizzie Winkler
and introducing IMOGEN SAGE as Mrs de Winter.
Tristan Sturrock originated the
roles of Alec in Brief Encounter and Tristan in Tristan & Yseult and
has gone on to play both in the West End and across the UK, America and
Australia. His one man show Mayday Mayday has played successful
seasons in Edinburgh and New York.
Kneehigh Theatre is
one of the country’s most celebrated companies. Based in Cornwall, just a stone
throw’s from Daphne du Maurier’s home, the company has grown from humble
beginnings and has carved a global reputation for their extraordinary shows.
They have created productions with the National Theatre and the Royal
Shakespeare Company and their international hits include Trsitan &
Yseult and Brief Encounter. Talking about Tristan & Yseult, The
Guardian said that “if this show doesn’t make you fall in love with the
theatre, there’s no potion on Earth that can help you”.
The multi-award
winning creative team is led by EMMA RICE, Kneehigh Theatre’s Joint
Artistic Director. Known for her “remarkably inventive, eye-catching
theatricality” (San Francisco Chronicle), Emma’s credits include The Red
Shoes, Don John, Brief Encounter and Tristan & Yseult.
Design is by LESLIE
TRAVERS whose credits include Peter Grimes on Aldeburgh Beach. Lighting
design is by TIM LUTKIN, winner of the 2014 Olivier Award for Chimercia. Sound
design and original music is by Olivier Award winner SIMON BAKER and casting by
SARAH BIRD.
Rebecca is presented by David Pugh & Dafydd
Rogers, the multi-award winning producers of ‘Art’, Brief Encounter, God of
Carnage and Calendar Girls in association with Steve & Jenny
Wiener. A Theatre Royal Plymouth production.
Tickets for Rebecca
Mon 30 November – Sat 5 December are on sale from Mayflower Theatre Box Office
tel: 02380 711811 or online at mayflower.org.uk. Ovation Restaurant bookings: 02380 711833
Review: Umbrellas Of Cherbourg (Gielgud Theatre)
Sacre Bleu, Zut Alors, Quelle Horreur, and as for the choreography: Fosse septique … pick your own Francophone diatribes, this is vachement awful. It’s a shame, because the hand on the Kneehigh Theatre tiller is Emma Rice who helmed their extraordinarily inventive Brief Encounter, but to continue the boating metaphors it’s no coincidence that Cherbourg […]
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