Written for IdeasTap Richard Bean’s One Man, Two Guvnors is the National Theatre’s most successful export since War Horse and is currently running on both the West End and Broadway. Other plays include The Big Fellah and England People Very Nice. He talks to Honour Bayes about speaking the truth, writing what you know and [...]
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Interview: Richard Bean
Posted in Interviews, tagged England People Very Nice, One Man Two Guvnors, Playwright, Richard Bean, The National Theatre on May 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
London Road
Posted in Reviews, tagged Adam Cork, Alecky Blythe, Ipswich, London Road, Recorded Delivery, Rufus Norris, The National Theatre, Verbatim theatre on April 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Written for http://exeuntmagazine.com/ London Road is something of a surprise. The idea of a piece of musical verbatim theatre based around the murders in 2006 of five sex workers in Ipswich sounds like pure madness. In musicals all the characters know the lyrics and the dance-steps through a weird Borg-like symbiosis; how could such a fantastical [...]
Twelfth Night @ The National
Posted in Reviews, tagged Peter Hall, Rebecca Hall, Shakespeare, Simon Callow, The National Theatre, Twelfth Night on January 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Written for http://www.fourthwallmagazine.co.uk Peter Hall celebrates his 80th birthday with a return to the theatre he used to run, so it is fitting that his Twelfth Night is a reflective affair. In fact it is so reflective if it were a record it would be turning at least 4 speeds too slow. For whilst this is an [...]
Review: The Black Maze & Revolutionary Steps
Posted in Reviews, tagged Danton's Death, Revolutionary Steps, Stan's Cafe, The Black Maze, The National Theatre on August 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The first thing you notice when you approach The Black Maze is that it’s a lot smaller than you may have been led to believe a ‘lorry’ would be. But don’t let that fool you it’s still a pitch-black labyrinth in there. An air of mystery surrounds this experience; the calming gentleman who explains the instructions [...]
Craig Stephens On … Stan’s Café at the National Theatre
Posted in Interviews, tagged Craig Stephens, Graeme Rose, It's Your Film, James Yarker, Revolutionary Steps, Stan's Cafe, The Black Maze, The National Theatre, Watch This Space Festival on August 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
On Stan’s Café’s website they mischievously proclaim “Forget ‘1-on-1′ Theatre, here’s ‘Just You (and maybe your mate) Theatre.’” It’s a teaser to The Black Maze, one of the shows coming to the National Theatre’s Watch This Space festival this August. They have every right to make such a cheeky statement with their 1998 project It’s [...]
Periods of upheaval; scary but essential.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Attempts on Her Life, Braham Murray, Coney, Greg Hersov, Ignition, Jasmine Cullingford, Katie Mitchell, Laura Kriefman, Manchester Royal Exchange, Max Stafford Clark, Nicholas Hytner, Punchdrunk, The Blue Elephant Theatre, The Factory, The National Theatre, The Waves, Theatre Derevo, Theatre du Complicite, Tristan Bates Theatre on November 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So the observant (and faithful!) of you will have noticed that I have been absent from this blog for the last 2 months. I won’t make excuses, but this has been due to a massive bout of upheaval and hopefully the last move I’m going to have to make for a long time. Now that [...]
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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