Alfred Enoch’s Pericles is perfect casting: youtful, natural, steadfast, boyish, alarmed by wickedness and hostility, childlike in his beginnings but deepening into the immense broken grief of his losses, and a hysteria of final relief which brings actual laughter from the audience. Around his...
The only slight unease for me was the casting as Alfieri the lawyer of Nancy Crane, excellent though she is. Her femaleness works touchingly, credibly when she is trying to head off Eddie’s disastrous intention to scupper Rodolfo and keep Catherine forever bound to him: there, she is any...
And now, after selling out at the Bush, the newest glitzy in-the-round theatre welcomes Tyrrell Williams’ short and lively three-hander about the teenage seedcorn of top football: three lads kicking around on a Pitch near the Elephant in Southwark while it – and every bit of their famili...
In contrast, I have a friend and fellow writer who strongly dislikesRent. He calls it a singing telegram to AIDS. Dave’s a few years younger than me, and I believe has never seen it live. I’d like to dismiss his opinion on these counts, but think I should give him a little more...
Fortunately, the production breaks into song often enough, and with Ruva Ngwenya in the lead role, providing near flawless performances of musical numbers, the experience is made worthwhile. Ike Turner is played by Tim Omaji who brings extraordinary charisma to a perhaps undeserving character, but...
Finally, Jiri Kylian’s 27’52”, named for its near half-hour length, opens as a company warm-up, with a huge bank of lights dangling over the dancers. The dancers are then seen to perform on a tear-away white floor that will later give way to a tear-away black one. Like scenes...
work with here andThe Earthworksadds a great deal to the genre. However, towards the end of the play, real science is conflated with (albeit plausible) science fiction. This worked well to advance the narrative in a moving way, but it felt slightly disappointing to mix fact and (near) ...
Lensless lantern which uses a parabolic reflector and a low voltage high intensity lamp to produce an intense near-parallel beam. Also known as a Beam Projector. A PARCAN is a special type of beamlight.Beamlite in the Backstage Heritage Collection BEGINNERSA call given by Stage Management to...
public places before and never spoke to them. But I couldn't resist telling her I didn't want to bother her when she was shopping, but I had to say how much I enjoyed her performance the previous evening. I immediately took off, only to hear her yelling after me, "That's no ...
(which I can’t always say on opening nights). Almost all the audience members near me managed to resist checking Oiler-score updates during the show – giving us a satisfying end to the evening in more ways than just a fun performance with happy and credible futures for the various ...