We round up the reviews for Trevor Nunn’s 60th anniversary revival of Samuel Beckett’s play Happy Days.
‘One of the most absorbing & significant plays every written’: HAPPY DAYS – Riverside Studios
Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days is, as Lisa Dwan observes, often described as ‘the female Hamlet’. Dwan has played every other female Beckett lead but even she was intimidated by a role previously inhabited by Peggy Ashcroft, Brenda Bruce, Fiona Shaw and Juliet Stevenson, among others. It is understandable. Happy Days, first performed in 1961, is a mighty play, and 60 years later still unlike anything you’ve seen.
NEWS: Trevor Nunn directs Lisa Dwan in anniversary production of Happy Days at Riverside Studios
Anthology Theatre, in association with Riverside Studios, presents the 60th anniversary production of Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days. Trevor Nunn directs Lisa Dwan as Winnie, continuing their collaboration following Eh Joe at Jermyn Street Theatre.
New post-show Q&A: Join Terri & Robert Bathurst for Love, Loss & Chianti
I’m excited to raise a toast to Robert Bathurst and the team behind poetry-inspired Love, Loss & Chianti – and to pay my first visit to the new, purpose-built home for iconic London arts centre Riverside Studios.
‘Two exceptional pieces of work naturally come together’: LOVE, LOSS & CHIANTI – Riverside Studios ★★★★
Director Jason Morell brings distinctly different performance elements together, to create the perfect homage to Christopher Reid’s art in Love, Loss and Chianti.
Best of the Blogs: Upstart Crow, The Prince Of Egypt, Macbeth & more
In our continuing series, editor Lisa Martland picks out some of her Top Picks from the last week of theatre (to 1 March 2020), ranging from Love London Love Culture’s thoughts on David Mitchell’s West End debut in the stage adaptation of TV favourite Upstart Crow at the Gielgud Theatre.
‘Brings Christopher Reid’s words to glorious life’: LOVE, LOSS & CHIANTI – Riverside Studios
Love, Loss & Chianti brings together two collected works of poetry by Christopher Reid. First up is Scatterings, a collection he wrote after the death of his wife, which brings to life his grief in heartbreaking detail.
Best of the Blogs: The Sugar Syndrome, Persona, Sold & Blithe Spirit
In our continuing series, our editor Lisa Martland picks out some of her Top Picks from the last week of theatre (to 2 February 2020), ranging from Ian Foster’s praise of the Orange Tree Theatre’s fine revival of Lucy Prebble’s first play The Sugar Syndrome.
’A transition from screen to theatre done right’: PERSONA – Riverside Studios ★★★★★
The evocative music synergises well with the poetic narration in Persona and adds emphasis to important plot points, while also giving a sense of pressure and entrapment.
REVIEW ROUND-UP: Persona at Riverside Studios
Find out what critics made of this stage adaptation of Ingmar Bergman’s 1966 film, Persona, officially reopening the Riverside Studios.
Love London Love Culture presents her shows of the week
Here’s a guide to some of the shows that you might want to book tickets for in the week beginning 13 January 2020.
‘It’s an extraordinary piece of writing & imagination’: Alice Krige stars in Persona at the Riverside Studios
Actress Alice Krige spoke to Emma Clarendon about starring in the stage adaptation of Ingmar Bergman’s film at the Riverside Studios.
NEWS: Olivier Award winner Alice Krige stars in stage adaptation of Ingmar Bergman’s Persona at newly opened Riverside Studios
Olivier Award winner Alice Krige, Nobuhle Ketelo, Paul Schoolman and William Close and his Earth Harp will star in the world premiere of a new stage adaptation of Ingmar Bergman’s Persona, the opening production of Riverside Studios.
NEWS: Jim Cartwright’s Raz gets London premiere, starring son James
After an incredible run at 2015 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the Assembly Festival and Riverside Studios Fringe First winning production of RAZ has its London premiere at Trafalgar Studios from 22 March – 16 April 2016 before embarking on a UK tour.
Review: The Magic Flute (Riverside Studios)
Anyone who remembers the movie Amadeus will be familiar with Mozart’s debts, ill health, rivalry with Salieri and issues with the Masonic brotherhood which appeared to run Vienna like a Sachertorte-munching mafia and whilst it’s interesting that Kit Hesketh-Harvey’s new production enrobes Magic Flute with these trappings, he doesn’t really take them anywhere and the […]
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Review: The Magic Flute (Riverside Studios)
Anyone who remembers the movie Amadeus will be familiar with Mozart’s debts, ill health, rivalry with Salieri and issues with the Masonic brotherhood which appeared to run Vienna like a Sachertorte-munching mafia and whilst it’s interesting that Kit Hesketh-Harvey’s new production enrobes Magic Flute with these trappings, he doesn’t really take them anywhere and the […]
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Review: I Love You, You’re Perfect – Now Change (Riverside Studios)
The trouble with being one of “Off-Broadway’s longest-running shows” is that they tend to play tiny theatres to undemanding out-of-town audiences who sustain them long beyond their useful life: witnessThe Fantasticks, the grand-daddy of the species, whose 2010 airing at the Duchess Theatre was so roundly condemned by London critics, it didn’t run 42 days […]
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Review: I Love You, You’re Perfect – Now Change (Riverside Studios)
The trouble with being one of “Off-Broadway’s longest-running shows” is that they tend to play tiny theatres to undemanding out-of-town audiences who sustain them long beyond their useful life: witnessThe Fantasticks, the grand-daddy of the species, whose 2010 airing at the Duchess Theatre was so roundly condemned by London critics, it didn’t run 42 days […]
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Review: The Art of Concealment (Riverside Studios, London)
I was looking forward to ‘The Art of Concealment’, Giles Cole’s biographical piece about the life and work of Terence Rattigan, having heard good things from its outings both at the Brighton Festival and Jermyn Street theatre. Perhaps I over-anticipated because Knight Mantell’s production at Riverside Studios feels painfully linear in its storytelling, and placing […]
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