REVIEW: Uncle Vanya, Hampstead Theatre ✭✭
Sophie Adnitt reviews Terry Johnson’s new production of Chekov’s Uncle Vanya now playing at Hampstead Theatre.
Alec Newman
REVIEW: Bug, Found 111 Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
Simon Evans’ production of Bug is a visceral and immersive piece, which lives up to Tracey Letts’ excellent script. Kate Fleetwood and James Norton deliver deeply moving performances, complimented by a strong supporting cast and sublime set, lighting and sound design. It is a brilliantly judged production, which will set your pulse racing, and linger long in the memory.
FIRST LOOK: Rehearsals Images from Bug starring James Norton
BritishTheatre.com are pleased to bring you these rehearsal images for Tracy Lett’s (August Osage County, Killer Joe) 20th anniversary production of Bug. Tense and blackly comic, Bug is a taut exploration of two people on the edge; where the lines between reality and delusions become blurred. The cast of Bug includes James Norton (War and Peace, Grantchester, Happy Valley) and Kate Fleetwood (London Road, Medea); Alec Newman (The Motherf**ker With the Hat & Danton’s Death, NT; King Lear, Donmar), Daisy Lewis (teacher Sarah Buntin in Downton Abbey) and Robert Goodale (Perfect Nonsense, Duke of York’s, Dr Faustus, Shakespeare’s Globe). Director Simon Evans returns to Found111, the thrilling new pop-up theatre space at the site of the original Central Saint Martins School of Art on Charing Cross Road, following the critically acclaimed The Dazzle. Bug will play a six week season from Thursday March 24 – Saturday May 7, 2016. Book … Read more
Hapgoood at Hampstead Theatre – Rehearsal Images Released
BritishTheatre.com are pleased to bring you a series of photographs from the rehearsals rooms of the Hamsptead Theatre where Hapgood by Tom Stoppard is currently rehearsing. London 1988. The Cold War is approaching its endgame and somebody in spymaster Elizabeth Hapgood’s (Lisa Dillon) network is leaking secrets. Is her star Double Agent a Triple? The trap she sets becomes a hall of mirrors in which betrayal is personal and treachery a trick of the light. The production, directed by Howard Davies (55 Days at Hampstead Theatre, Temple at Donmar), is written by acclaimed playwright Tom Stoppard, whose many plays include The Coast of Utopia, The Real Thing and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. His screenplays also include Shakespeare in Love and Anna Karenina. The revival of this classic espionage drama is an exciting chance to see the Tom Stoppard play you’ve never seen. BOOK TICKETS FOR HAPGOOD AT HAMPSTEAD THEATRE
