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Theatre Reviews: Solitary Animals

... Solitary Animals Hackney Empire Studio Almost panto-like, plays appear each year that link the world's violence to our own sheltered lives. Many of these are ho-hum, but a few manage to bypass our woolly consciences and get our brains ticking instead. Elaine Acworth's production falls into the latter category. Laurel, played by Laura Wilkinson, is a foreign correspondent who is HIV-positive ...

Published: Thursday 16 March 2000
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Miscellaneous | Words: 264 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: theater review 

Theatre Reviews: Richard III

... Richard III St Luke's Church Directed by Bryan Torfeh, this all- female production is described in the programme as a rough draft, based on limited rehearsal time. While most of the cast members know most of their lines, the workshop element can be seen in the overreliance on signifying and other acting shortcuts such as mechanical posing, excessive reactions, eye-rolling and the like. As ...

Published: Thursday 16 March 2000
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Miscellaneous | Words: 246 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: theater review 

Theatre Reviews: Provocatively sensual show

... Provocatively sensual show Lyttelton Baby Doll Late in life Tennessee Williams wrote Tiger Tail, a melodramatic stage version of his screenplay Baby Doll, which unsuccessfully surfaced three years ago in Plymouth. But Lucy Bailey, whose Birmingham Rep production transfers to the National, was lucky enough to get permission to adapt the earlier film script under its original title. Back in ...

Published: Thursday 16 March 2000
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Miscellaneous | Words: 319 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: theater review 

Theatre Reviews: Rosmersholm

... Rosmersholm Nottingham It is a rare treat for a British audience to see Henrik Ibsen's work performed by a Norwegian company. The National Theatre of Norway, directed by Terje Maerli, does full justice to this rarely performed play, which tells the darkly brooding tale of Johannes Rosmer, a pastor who has lost his faith, and his self-seeking foster-daughter Rebekka. She is an emancipated ...

Published: Thursday 16 March 2000
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Miscellaneous | Words: 252 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: theater review 

Theatre Reviews: Brief Encounter

... Brief Encounter Windsor/Touring Andrew Taylor's creaky transliteration of David Lean's movie masterpiece from screen to stage, revived for a short season at the Theatre Royal, has been partly recast since it was last seen on tour. Jenny Seagrove takes over as a poignant if rather lachrymose Laura, missing the stoic gaiety of Celia Johnson's film portrayal but still cutting an attractive figure ...

Published: Thursday 16 March 2000
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Miscellaneous | Words: 269 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: theater review 

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Published: Thursday 16 March 2000
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Miscellaneous | Words: 2 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: theater review 

THEATRE REVIEW: Shelf Life

... Shelf Life Staged at the Phoenix Centre, this is a diverse entertainment encompassing farm grumbles and rural concerns, a view of consumer society and human life. Its start, on a farm, suggests a gritty drama, but diverting animal props and humour soon make the point that gritty is not the house style of Theatre Alibi. The plot soon begins to whim sically consider the plight of a shy man ...

Published: Thursday 16 March 2000
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Miscellaneous | Words: 192 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: theater review 

OPERA REVIEW: Essential Scottish Opera

... Essential Scottish Opera Musselburgh/Touring This annual tour of highlights from Scottish Opera is an unashamedly populist treat. It provides people across Scotland with an evening of guaranteed hits. Beyond that, it allows regular patrons to savour strong and confident voices, like that of tenor Alfred Boe, up close in a relatively small space, as here at the Brunton. Cleverly directed by ...

Published: Thursday 16 March 2000
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Miscellaneous | Words: 244 | Page: Page 14 | Tags: theater review 

DANCE REVIEW: Peppered with frenetic action

... Peppered with frenetic action Sadler's Wells Salt Edouard Lock, choreographer of radical Canadian dance company La La La Human Steps, gave up studying literature for dance, and the switch seems more than academic. Actively resisting to embed meaning in his direction, he attempts to get as close as possible to a state of pure dance. For the nine performers this means 100 minutes of the most ...

Published: Thursday 16 March 2000
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Miscellaneous | Words: 272 | Page: Page 14 | Tags: theater review 

STUDENT SHOWCASE REVIEW: Versatility shines through

... Versatility shines through Criterion London Studio Centre/Musical Theatre Showcase Seedtime, directed by Ian Dewar, is the performing company of third year students following the Musical Theatre Professional Option on London Studio Centre's theatre dance course. At this point in the year, the company is divided into three groups which undertake different projects a play, a TV and video ...

Published: Thursday 16 March 2000
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Miscellaneous | Words: 979 | Page: Page 16 | Tags: theater review 

Play Reviews: Polyeuct

... Polyeuct GATE THANKS to the new sadly vanished Jonathan Miller regime at the Old Vic, Pierre Corneille (1606-84) is for London theatregoers something more than a familiar name from histories of French dramatic literature in which he occupies the status of father to French classic drama. But the revival in the Waterloo Road of Ranjit Bolt's translations of Corneille 's come dies, The Liar ...

Published: Thursday 11 July 1991
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Miscellaneous | Words: 396 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: theater review 

Regional Reviews: Hedda Gabler

... Hedda Gabler HARROGATE HARROGATE Theatre complete their current season with a stunning production of Ibsen's famous play Hedda Gabler, in a translation by Christopher Hampton and brilliantly directed by Andrew Manley. This is one of Ibsen's later plays and is about a woman who is trapped between her needs as a woman and her duties as a wife. In this production the action takes place centre ...

Published: Thursday 11 July 1991
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Miscellaneous | Words: 255 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: theater review