Written for Exeunt Peter Brook has spent a lifetime distilling his theatrical process, a pilgrimage that has resulted in productions of astonishing subtlety. For some his belief in stripping away theatre to its barest bones, in constant honing and sharpening, in the scraping away all that is extraneous from even the most prized texts, is [...]
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A Magic Flute @ The Barbican
Posted in Reviews, tagged A Magic Flute, Barbican, Peter Brook, The Magic Flute on March 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Best Of The Rest 2010
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Actors Centre, Adam Spreadbury-Maher, Bite Season 2010, Bruised Sky Productions, Canal Cafe Theatre, Che Walker, David Hoyle, Donmar Warehouse, Enron, Gareth Farr, Good Night Out Presents, Hot August Fringe, Ignition Season, Jack Thorne, James Kermack, Jerusalem, Jon Cooper, La Boheme, Laura Kriefman, Leo Butler, Licking Wounds, London International Mime Festival, Lucy Prebble, Manor, Martin Murphy, Midnight Matinees, News Revue, Peter Brook, Peter Gill, Pina Bausch, Red, Soho Theatre, The BAC, The Barbican, The Barbican Bite Season, The Blue Elephant Theatre, The Cock TAvern, The Early Bird, The Finborough Theatre, The Royal Vauxhall TAvern, The York Realist, Trilogy, Tristan Bates Theatre on January 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We all know the big un’s to watch out for in the first few months of 2010; Red, currently running at the Donmar Warehouse, the West End transfers of Enron and Jerusalem, Peter Brook at The Barbican which also houses the eclectic Bite Season for 2010 and work by the legendary Pina Bausch, Trilogy at [...]
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Belief walks in from the wings.
Posted in Comment, tagged 13, 66 Books, A Disappearing Number, Alexi Kaye Campbell, BABEL, Ben Power, Bishop of Hertford, David Hare, Donmar Warehouse, Dr Rowan Williams, Enron, George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff, Helen Edmundson, Henry Hitchings, Jerzy Grotowski, Joe Penhall, Josie Rourke, King James Bible, Michael Billington, Michael Sheen, MIke Bartlett, Peter Brook, Port Talbot, Racing Demon, Royal Court Theatre, The Bush Theatre, The Church Times, The Faith Machine, The Haunted Child, The Heresy of Love, The National Theatre, The Passion, William Tyndale, Written on the Heart on January 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Written for the Church Times In the spotlight: Messianic John (Trystan Gravelle), centre, with Stephen (Danny Webb) and Ruth (Geraldine James) in the National Theatre production of 13 NATIONAL THEATRE/MARC BRENNER “I HAVE always thought that the theatre is a kind of surrogate religion,” The Guardian’s longest-standing theatre critic, Michael Billington, says. “It has its [...]
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