For better or worse, the association between theatre, television and film has only grown closer in the last ten years, not just with artists moving between the different genres but also in the adoption of cinematic technique within productions.
Text of the Day: The Red Barn
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: The Red Barn
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
Theatre Podcast: Donmar Shakespeare, The Red Barn, Shopping & F**king
This week the London theatre bloggers discuss David Hare’s new play The Red Barn, starring Mark Strong at the National, the Donmar’s all-female Shakespeare trilogy at King’s Cross and Lyric Hammersmith’s recent anniversary revival of Mark Ravenhill’s Shopping & F**king.
What were our Top 25 reviews & other blogs in October 2016?
What were the most popular contributions from our 20+ syndicate Mates bloggers from the month just closed. What were the reviews and other blogs that got readers clicking most? Our Top 25 Mates Blogs from October 2016 includes gaggles of reviews for our most read-about shows. Any surprises?
THE RED BARN – National Theatre
David Hare’s latest is a superb adaptation of a Simenon thriller that is set in the United States.
THE RED BARN – National Theatre
Which is a roundabout way of saying that Robert Icke’s production of The Red Barn was not the play I thought it would be. And that my initial slightly cool reaction was as much a response to that as it was to the material itself.
THE RED BARN – National Theatre
The much-awarded star director Robert Icke rashly gave an interview last week saying how a lot of other people’s theatre is “boring” , so he often leaves at the interval. Ironic that he promptly socks us an underpowered 110-minute gloomfest with no interval at all.
NEWS: Ruth Wilson opens in Hedda in Dec, Elizabeth Debicki joins Red Barn, New NT season
The National Theatre has announced full dates and further details for its new booking period, running from September 2016 to February 2017. Headline highlights for the period include: dates for Ruth Wilson taking the title role in HEDDA GABLER in a new version by Patrick Marber, directed by Ivo van Hove, and The Night Manager’s Elizabeth Debicki joining Mark Strong and Hope Davis in the cast of David Hare’s THE RED BARN, directed by Robert Icke.
NEWS: Mark Strong & Hope Davis premiere David Hare’s The Red Barn
The Red Barn a new play by David Hare, based on the novel La Main by Georges Simenon, opens in the National Theatre’s Lyttelton Theatre on 6 October 2016 (press night 17 October), starring Mark Strong and Hollywood’s Hope Davis and directed by Robert Icke.