REVIEW: Medea, @SohoPlace ✭✭✭✭
Tim Hochstrasser reviews Dominic Cooke’s production of Euripides’ Medea starring Sophie Okonedo and Ben Daniels now at @SohoPlace, London.
Dominic Cooke
Medea @SohoPlace to star Sophie Okonedo and Ben Daniels
Full casting has been announced for Medea starring Sophie Okonedo and Ben Daniels directed by Dominic Cooke @SohoPlace Theatre.
REVIEW: Good, Harold Pinter Theatre ✭✭✭
Paul T Davies reviews C P Taylor’s play Good starring David Tennant now playing at the Harold Pinter Theatre, London.
Good West End revival with David Tennant -rescheduled dates announced
C.P.Taylor’s GOOD, starring David Tennant and directed by Dominic Cooke, which was postponed will now open in April 2021.
Casting announced for encore season of Follies at the National Theatre
Casting has been announced for the return season of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman’s musical Follies at the National Theatre in February 2019.
Sondheim’s Follies to return to the National Theatre in 2019
Stephen Sondheim’s musical Follies is to return to the National Theatre in 2019. Following a critically acclaimed run in 2017-18, Stephen Sondheim and James Golman’s musical Follies is to return to the National Theatre in 2019. Casting and production dates will be announced in the near future. The production recently won two awards at the London’s Critic’s Circle Theatre Awards for Dominic Cooke (Best Director) and Vicki Mortimer (Best Designer). A cast album of the production is expected to be released in the coming months. Dominic Cooke’s production of Follies saw the show restored scenes cut from the 1971 Broadway premiere and used Jonathan Tunick’s full original orchestration and saw the show returned to its original one-act structure. The National Theatre’s production of Follies saw four-time Olivier Award winner Imelda Staunton as Sally Durrant, three time Olivier winner Philip Quast as Ben, and Olivier and Obie Award winner Janie Dee … Read more
Autumn Donmar Warehouse Season Announced
Donmar Warehouse Artistic Director Josie Rourke today announced the theatre’s Autumn season of three plays which includes Abi Morgan’s Splendour directed by Associate Director Robert Hastie, the UK Premiere of Christopher Shinn’s Teddy Ferrara directed by Dominic Cooke and the thirty-year revival of Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Christopher Hampton directed by Rourke herself. Artistic Director Josie Rourke said: One of the things that most excites me about this season is the strong leading roles for women. It is a thrill to announce a season of work that features, in plays by living writers, women of the calibre and power of Zawe Ashton, Sinéad Cusack, Michelle Dockery, Michelle Fairley, Genevive O’Reilly and Janet McTeer, who returns to the Donmar and the London stage. This, combined with the transfer of Phyllida Lloyd’s second instalment in her trilogy of all-female Shakespeares to New York shows a programme of work in deep conversation with … Read more
