Category: Production & rehearsal pics
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Hot on the heels of Platonov at the National Theatre in the summer comes Michael Frayn's Wild Honey which is based on the same early Chekhov play which was untitled and discovered after the playwright's death. Directed by Howard Davies and Jonathan Kent, this comedy of errors is a tale of nineteenth century Russian life…
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Very excited about seeing this one next week. Have always had a preference for Mike Bartlett's 'smaller' plays such as Cock, An Intervention and Bull rather than big production numbers like Earthquakes in London – although King Charles III is an exception to that. Wild has a cast of three and from these pictures looks…
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Remember the sexy promo photo for Kenneth Branagh's production of Romeo & Juliet with Richard Madden and Lily? Well the rehearsal images are in, here's a selection: Romeo and Juliet (Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company) – Richard Madden (Romeo), Lily James (Juliet) Credit Johan Persson Romeo and Juliet (Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company) – Kenneth Branagh, Lily…
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Official production photos have arrived for the Old Vic's The Caretaker starring Timothy Spall, Daniel Mays and George MacKay. I saw it last week and and found it challenging and rewarding. Set is pretty amazing too: Daniel Mays (Aston), Timothy Spall (Davies), George MacKay (Mick) in The Caretaker at The Old Vic. Photo by Manuel…
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Jonathan Broadbent as a silver cape wearing Oberon? Yes please and if the trailer (below) and rehearsal pics are anything to go by this looks fun. I'm also hoping to make up for missing him in Stratford last year. Cast also includes Ferdy Roberts, Hammed Animashaun, John Lightbody, Victoria Mosely and Clare Dunne. It runs…
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Looking forward to this one, it’s a comedy based on a 1930’s French play but in this version the action is moved to cold war era America. A soldier, missing presumed dead, returns home but is he really Captain Fox? Lots of sitting and leaning going on in the rehearsal pics…but doesn’t Rory Keenan look…
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The Homecoming production photos have landed in my inbox. The play, a Jamie Lloyd Production runs at the Trafalgar Studios until February 13, 2016. Click on the images for bigger versions. John Simm in The Homecoming. Photography by Marc Brenner Gary Kemp, John Simm and Gemma Chan in The Homecoming. Photography by Marc Brenner
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Sense of an Ending, Theatre 503. Photo by Jack Sain Fringe theatre is where the difficult to watch plays are at the moment. Ken Urban's new piece, Sense of an Ending, is about a journalist investigating the case of two nun's who are standing trial for their part in the massacre of Tutsis during the…
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Harry Melling and Mark Arends in Angry Brigade at the Bush Theatre. Photo Manuel Harlan Saw The Angry Brigade at the Watford Palace Theatre last Autumn and it's found it's way to the Bush Theatre with Harry Melling returning and three new actors taking the other parts. It's the story of Britain's answer to the…