Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
YEARS OF SUNLIGHT – Theatre503
This particular ‘new town’ was designed to rehouse the overspill population from the poorer parts of Liverpool but the forced creation of new communities is rarely so simple as that, and it is this impact that McLean explores here, by following the thread of a 30 year friendship.
YEARS OF SUNLIGHT – Theatre 503
The story starts in 2009 with Paul, a fortysomething professional who works in computing, returning to his home town, Skelmersdale, a 1960s overspill from Liverpool. Now living in Dublin, he’s come to see his mother, Hazel, who migrated to Britain from Ireland because she was an unmarried mother.
YEARS OF SUNLIGHT – Theatre 503
New play about two friends who grow up together is well structured, if a bit slender.
INTERVIEW: Spotlight On… RSC actor (& producer) Alex Waldmann
Alex Waldmann is a veteran of the RSC and of Shakespeare productions in general so it was fascinating to get his insight – he’s also the founder of theatre company SEARED, whose premiere of Michael McLean’s Years of Sunlight opens this week at London’s Theatre503.
INTERVIEW: Spotlight On… RSC actor (& producer) Alex Waldmann
Alex Waldmann is a veteran of the RSC and of Shakespeare productions in general so it was fascinating to get his insight – he’s also the founder of theatre company SEARED, whose premiere of Michael McLean’s Years of Sunlight opens this week at London’s Theatre503.
NEWS: Michael McLean’s Years of Sunlight premieres at Theatre503
After this weekend’s Top Trumps mini-festival in response to the US presidential inauguration of Donald Trump, Lisa Spirling’s inaugural season as artistic director of London’s Theatre 503 officially gets under way next week with the world premiere of Years of Sunlight, a new play by Michael McLean presented by Seared Productions in association with Theatre 503.