REVIEW: You and Me and Sondheim, Arts Theatre ✭✭✭✭
Hopefully, we will get to enjoy Claybourne Elder’s fine, mellifluous vocals again in London, either in a return of his solo show or on a West End stage.
Mark Ludmon
REVIEW: Paul Auster’s City Of Glass, Lyric Hammersmith ✭✭✭✭
The show is worth seeing for the cutting-edge visuals alone but, while it stylishly captures much of the theme and substance of the novel, it is lacking in emotional engagement – something that could also be said about Auster’s New York Trilogy.
REVIEW: Romeo And Juliet, The Globe ✭✭✭✭
Kramer and the cast of Romeo and Juliet deserve praise for taking a well-trod story and giving it a fresh, interesting and exciting new slant.
Fringe festivals plan global day of celebration
The organisers of Edinburgh Festival Fringe have announced plans for an international day celebrating the fringe movement. More than 200 fringe festivals from across the world will join together on World Fringe Day on Tuesday July 11. It marks the 70th anniversary of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the world’s first fringe, which takes place in August. Performers, creatives, theatre companies and other fringe participants and audiences are invited to take part on July 11 by sharing their love for all things fringe on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society’s chief executive Shona McCarthy said: “We can’t wait to join with our sister fringes across the world to celebrate the wonder and joy of fringe festivals in this auspicious year. This is an incredible opportunity for fringe organisers, venues, participants and audiences to take part in a truly international celebration of creativity that will transcend national boundaries, demonstrating the … Read more
Trafalgar Studios revives Disco Pigs with Harry Potter star
Enda Walsh’s explosive play Disco Pigs is to be revived at Trafalgar Studios in London to mark the 20th anniversary of its British debut. It will star Evanna Lynch, best known for playing Luna Lovegood in the Harry Potter films, and Colin Campbell, who was most recently seen in Dublin By Lamplight at Dublin’s Corn Exchange for Abbey Theatre. It will be directed by John Haidar. After premiering in Cork and Dublin in 1996, Walsh’s breakthrough play made a huge impact at the Traverse Theatre during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1997, transferring to the Bush Theatre in London. It starred Cillian Murphy alongside Eileen Walsh. Disco Pigs is a fast and formally inventive portrait of two teenage Irish misfits, Pig and Runt, inseparable since being born at the same time on the same day in the same hospital. They speak in their own language, play by their own rules, … Read more
REVIEW: Nuclear War, Royal Court Jerwood Upstairs ✭✭✭✭
While Nuclear War is at times confusing and disorienting, it is riveting throughout its 45 minutes, leaving you with words, sounds and sights that will continue to haunt.
Paines Plough reveals writers for Hull 2017 project
New short plays by Tom Wells and other writers will be staged by Paines Plough in Hull to tie in with it being the UK’s City of Culture for 2017.
Royal Court’s Anatomy of a Suicide finds cast
Hattie Morahan, Paul Hilton and Kate O’Flynn are to lead the cast in Alice Birch’s new play, Anatomy of a Suicide, at the Royal Court.
