made me long to see her Cleopatra one day. No cavils in other casting (though an eccentricity in Aguecheek: Demetri Goritsas who for some reason in dress and voice seems to have come from New York 1945). Danielle Henry’s Maria is manically lively in her hoaxing defiance; West’s brief...
I understood the pieces then, but not anywhere near the way I understand and have lived these words in my 46 years. JHPENTERTAINMENT: In some way, was it that early connection to the work that ultimately lead you to direct this production? CYNTHIA HARRIS: It made sense to me as a ...
Later, Charlie and the Chcolate factory was enjoyable, but dependent on big West End machinery and star casting, with little warmth even with Doug Hodge. But here Lucy Kirkwood’s transformation of Dahl’s The Witches , directed by Lyndsey Turner, is glorious all the way. Dave Malloy’s ...
Casting Venus (EWP: Paper or Plastic, 1999) Hill, Amy BIO: Asian-American actor-writer of stage, film, and TV who gained national attention playing the quirky outspoken grandmother (several decades her senior) on the groundbreaking sitcom All-American Girl (ABC, 1994-95). The daughter of...
JHPENTERTAINMENT: A couple months ago you celebrated your one-year anniversary with the show, having joined the company near the end of the latest tour’s second season. In that time, have you discovered aspects of Link that you didn’t really explore in your performance early on? SKYLER SH...
they also have a set of barndoors on the front of the lantern whih are used to cut off unwanted parts of the beam by casting a shadow. Sometimes shortened to just 'F' (e.g. 'Can you tighten the focus on the downstage Fs so there's less spill on the front of the stage'). ...
(Elijah Kelley) actually became a little unlikeable to me, as a character, for the first time ever. Queen Latifah as the Wiz was a great casting idea, but fell a little short: it felt like the songs she had to sing were a little below her usual register, and she didn’t get to ...
Benny Youngplays Duncan/The Doctor. He previously appeared at the Donmar inBe Near Me(co-production with National Theatre of Scotland). His other theatre work includesEulogy, Philoctetes, The Importance of Being Alfred, Love with a Capital L, Sweet Silver Song of the Lark(Òran Mór),Don ...
he had his work cut out for him with intensely private, dourDavid Chase, who admitted to being uncomfortable talking about himself on camera. In the end,Wise Guyshines a light on Chase’s roots only as they manifested in the writing, directing and casting ofThe Sopranos. It works, and yo...
casting and begin to rehearse. In fact the “shock horror” factor is even more ironic than I had ever previously realised because it’s a very harmless little play – written at a time when people were more frank and much less prudish than they were fifty years later once the Victorian ...