Artistic director Sean Foley has announced his programme for the 50th anniversary season of Birmingham Repertory Theatre in its current home on Centenary Square.
NEWS: Lyric Hammersmith will reopen with a triple bill of new plays by Tanika Gupta, Simon Stephens & Roy Williams
The Lyric Theatre Hammersmith has announced the world premiere of Out West featuring works by three of the UK’s leading playwrights, Tanika Gupta (A Doll’s House), Simon Stephens (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) and Roy Williams (Death Of England: Delroy), to reopen the venue in June 2021.
NEWS: Birmingham Repertory Theatre announces the commissioning of 12 new plays
Birmingham Repertory Theatre has announced 12 new commissions titled The Park Bench Plays – a series of micro-plays that ‘illuminate, interrogate and even celebrate today’s socially distanced world’.
‘Superb reimagining’: A DOLL’S HOUSE – Lyric Hammersmith
Tanika Gupta’s superb reimagining of Henrik Ibsen’s modern classic A Doll’s House is both entertaining and deep.
‘Broadens the thematic reach of the play’: HOBSON’S CHOICE – Manchester ★★★
The Royal Exchange’s latest offering is an adaptation of Harold Brighouse’s 1916 play Hobson’s Choice, with the action updated from Victorian-era Salford to Ancoats in the 1980s.
NEWS: Rachel O’Riordan’s inaugural season at Lyric Hammersmith includes Tanika Gupta’s version of A Doll’s House & new play from David Greig
The Lyric Hammersmith Theatre has announced its 2019/2020 programme of work, Rachel O’Riordan’s inaugural season as artistic director.
Mind the Blog’s best shows of 2017
Any number of shows could have been included in this post; frankly it’s ludicrous that I decided to stick with my whole top 12 idea… As I’ve seen about 90 more individual shows than last year.
Text of the Day: Lions & Tigers
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
LIONS & TIGERS – Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
Tanika Gupta explores an episode from her family history that is both highly relevant and humane.
NEWS: Globe announces cast for Tanika Gupta premiere Lions & Tigers
Casting for this summer’s world premiere production of Tanika Gupta’s Lions and Tigers, directed by Pooja Ghai, has been confirmed by Shakespeare’s Globe.
ANITA & ME – Touring
Seventies teenager Meena lives in Tollington, a former mining village in England’s Black Country in Anita and Me. Meena is a thoroughly British Asian, but mum Daljit and dad Shyam have a different perspective, having left their native India to give their daughter every opportunity.
Women Centre Stage: Power Play Festival runs this week
Yesterday (14 November 2016) saw the launch of the Women Centre Stage: Power Play Festival at Hampstead Theatre and The Actors Centre. Produced by Sphinx Theatre Company and Joanna Hedges, Women Centre Stage exists to promote, advocate for and inspire women in the arts and has developed and commissioned a wide range of new work which uniquely brings together a diverse array of women characters far from the margins into centre stage.
Text of the Day: Love N Stuff
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
Text of the Day: Love N Stuff
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
LOVE N STUFF – Theatre Royal Stratford East
Delightful two-hander is a comedy about married life and the truth of parenthood that is both funny and wise.
LISTEN: What’s changed for female playwrights since My Mother Said I Never Should?
How much has changed for female playwrights since 1985 when Charlotte Keatley wrote her landmark play, My Mother Said I Never Should? Playwrights Tanika Gupta and Anna Jordan and Royal Court literary manager Christopher Campbell discuss with Terri Paddock at a post-show panel debate.
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.
Weekly Theatre Podcast: The Moderate Soprano, Rotterdam, Anita and Me
This week the London theatre bloggers discuss three new plays beyond the West End: David Hare’s The Moderate Soprano at Hampstead Theatre, Jon Brittain’s Rotterdam at Theatre 503 and Tanika Gupta’s adaptation of Meera Syal’s novel Anita and Me at Theatre Royal Stratford East.
ANITA AND ME – Theatre Royal Stratford East
Anita and Me deserves respect for Meera Syal’s semi-autobiographical 1996 novel chronicling an awkward schoolgirl’s struggle to escape the cloying embrace of her traditional Punjabi family, the only foreigners in a gritty Midlands mining village, against an uneasy background of skinhead racism.
ANITA AND ME – Theatre Royal Stratford East
MEERA SYAL’S MEENA…A MEMORY OF THE 70s, THOUGHTFUL FOR TODAY Any show playing Slade and T. Rex standards before the curtain has me well softened up So does the wide, generous vision of Meera Syal, whose 1996 novel (set twenty … Continue reading →
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