#Stephen Brimson Lewis

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Imogen That!

CYMBELINE Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford upon Avon, Wednesday 10th May 2023 Greg Doran bows out of his tenure as Artistic Director of the RSC with this production of one of Shakespeare’s lesser-known plays.  Set vaguely during the era of the Romans invading Britain, this play sees Shakespeare rounding up all his favourite tropes and packaging them in a dark and funny fairy tale.  These…

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Our Song by Keith Waterhouse - programme / Apollo Theatre -

Directed by Ned Sherrin Set Designed by Tim Goodchild Costumes Designed by Stephen Brimson- lewis

Peter O'Toole as Roger Piper

Tara FitzGerald as Angela Caxton

Lucy Fleming as Judith Piper

Cara Konig as Belle

Jack Watling as Charles

William Sleigh as Maitre 'D'

Donald Pickering as Gunby T Gunby

#peter o'toole #our song #stage #1992 #apollo theatre #tara fitzgerald #keith waterhouse #ned sherrin #lucy fleming #donald pickering #jack watling #cara konig #william sleigh #stephen brimson lewis #programme of our song #programme #apollo theater #sign

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Measure for Measure, RSC 2019 - Review

Measure for Measure, RSC 2019 – Review

My false o’erweighs your true.

Gregory Doran is back in the director’s chair, this time tackling Shakespeare’s infamously knotty problem play: Measure for Measure. A tale of abused power and sexual politics, this is a #MeToo era play. It is perhaps intriguing, then, that Doran chooses to set his Measure for Measure decidedly in the past. But this choice proves inspired. Early 1900s Austria; with…

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As You Like It, directed by Kimberley Sykes, set designed by Stephen Brimson Lewis, costume and lighting designed by Bretta Gerecke. (2019) Photo by Topher McGrillis © RSC

#shakespeare #as you like it #dancing #rsc #royal shakespeare company #stage #set #costumes #spotlight #globe theatre #theatre #dance #statue

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The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), The Tempest.

Collaboration with: Imaginarium Studios and Intel.

Design Director: Stephen Brimson Lewis. Artistic Director: Gregory Doran.

Mark Quartley,  Brimson Lewis, Simon Russell Beale, Jenny Rainsford,  

Joe Dixon  

photo: © Topher McGrillis, RSC

#art #design #fashion #theatre #the royal shakespeare compagny #rsc #Magic #tempest #mark quartley #mapping #3D #immersive #avatar #Architecture #brimson lewis #ariel #intel #imaginarium #prospero #shakespeare

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A Christmas Carol - Royal Shakespeare Theatre

★ ★ ★ ★

David Edgar’s nifty new adaptation embraces many of the traditional elements of the Dickens classic, with a couple of notable innovations, including the appearance of Charles Dickens himself, in conversation with his editor John Forster. Visually gorgeous, the staging is ever fluid, if sometimes distracting. Phil Davis is terrific as Scrooge, scowling and scuttling his way across the stage like an ill-tempered terrier. A fine cast, in a solid production that will appeal across the age range.

For a more detailed review from the same critic, click here.

Strongest features: Beautiful post-card visuals, writing innovation, strong performances all-round

Weakest features: Overly mechanical scene changes

Principle performers: Phil Davis (Scrooge), Nicholas Bishop (Dickens), Gerard Carey (Cratchit)

Creatives: Rachael Kavanaugh (Director), Stephen Brimson Lewis (Designer)

TO BOOK TICKETS: https://www.rsc.org.uk

until 4 Feb 2018, to be reprised 4 Dec 2018 - 20 Jan 2019

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The Tempest RSC at the Barbican

Costume Supervisor for Stephen Brimson-Lewis

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Unit 1 & 2: reviewing new experiences

The Tempest at Barbican Theatre

The Royal Shakespeare Company (in collaboration with Intel and The Imaginarium studios) present William Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'

"An illusionistic stage"

William Shakespeare's The Tempest at Barbican Theatre (Royal Shakespeare Company) was a striking visionary performance complete with live interactive effects powered by Intel and stunning set design and production (credit to the production designer, Stephen Brimson Lewis and artistic director, Aileen Gonsalves). Theatre is naturally a collaborative art, dependent on plastic theatre, performance capture, and stunning visuals. Likewise, Barbican's interpretation of the enigmatic island was beautifully done with unimaginable scenic effects, dance and music. The Tempest's masque scene was transformed into something powerfully intriguing and unsettling. Brought alive with striking moving lights (guided by Simon Spencer), the audience were alarmed by the malevolent Duke of Milan/Prospero (usurped by his brother Antonio and the support of the King of Naples/Alonso and Sebastian) and the illusion of justice. The enigmatic protagonist's pursuit of power and vengeance (brilliantly performed by Simon Russell Beale) was conveyed by an atmosphere of tempestuous weather and spiritual light imagery.

Lost on a fantastical island

A Duke once heartlessly robbed of his influence and position becomes overwhelmed with the desire to take vengeance on those who have wronged him. Expressed by Shakespeare's 'Tempest' motif, Beale's convincingly unhinged and incensed performance heightens the tense uneasy setting of magic and isolation. Cultivating inhuman powers, he is vindictive over his subordinate, Caliban (an enslaved unearthly creature performed by Joe Dixon), strangely possessive over his daughter, Miranda (a simple and inoffensive interpretation by Jenny Rainsford), and defensively autocratic with Ariel (a loyal spirit being and confidante acted by Mark Quartley).

Above all, Quartley and Dixon's passionate performances as the airy spirit, Ariel, and grotesque Caliban were the most impressive. Dixon's interpretation of Caliban was especially great. It was a live celebration of creativity, morality, and passion. A character originally acknowledged for his resentment and savage demeanour unexpectedly becomes a parody of himself. Dixon's performance is completely comedic and desperate. He effectively captures the character's nobler more sensitive side that is often mistaken for idiocy and senselessness in other interpretations.

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Ah, Vienna...

Ah, Vienna…

MEASURE FOR MEASURE

Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford upon Avon, Wednesday 7th August, 2019

  Some people label this a ‘problem play’ and I have a problem with that.  What it is is a dark comedy that deals with issues of morality.  Here, director Gregory Doran has for the most part a light touch, so the comedy has the upper hand over the darkness.  It’s definitely a production of two halves,…

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Charlotte Spencer (Diana Fletcher). Image by Catherine Ashmore

CHARLOTTE SPENCER JOINS EVE BEST, EDWARD BLUEMEL AND ANTHONY HEAD IN TREVOR NUNN’S PRODUCTION OF TERENCE RATTIGAN’S LOVE IN IDLENESS AS IT TRANSFERS TO THE WEST END FOR 50 PERFORMANCES ONLY.

Terence Rattigan’s LOVE IN IDLENESS – Produced by Chocolate Factory Productions & Nica Burns, Darren Bagert/Joan Raffe and Scott Delman

The Menier Chocolate Factory today announces that Charlotte Spencer joins Eve Best, Edward Bluemel, Anthony Head, Vivienne Rochester and Nicola Sloane in Terence Rattigan’s Love in Idleness as it transfers to the Apollo Theatre for a strictly limited season. The production plays for just 50 performances, opening on 18 May, with previews from 11 May, and is running until 1 July 2017.

Returning from Canada after a four-year absence during the war, eighteen-year-old Michael is full of youthful ideology and leftist leanings. But he is shocked to find his widowed mother Olivia is now the mistress of cabinet minister Sir John Fletcher, enjoying a comfortable society life. When Michael and John clash, sparks fly and relationships are tested as everyone learns some difficult lessons in love.

This new production sees Nunn return to Rattigan, following the huge success of Flare Path, with another of the playwright’s trio of ‘war plays’, which also includes While the Sun Shines.

Terence Rattigan’s (1911 – 1977) major works include The Deep Blue Sea, The Browning Version, Separate Tables, French without Tears and The Winslow Boy.

Charlotte Spencer plays Diana Fletcher. Her theatre work includes the role of Christine Keeler in Stephen Ward (Aldwych Theatre), Oliver (Theatre Royal Drury Lane) and Mary Poppins (Prince Edward Theatre). For television, her work includes The Living and the Dead, Broad Squad, Glue (Best Supporting Actress nomination at the BAFTA Television Awards 2015), Stonemouth (Best Actress nomination at the Scottish BAFTA television awards) and Line Of Duty. Her voice work includes the title role in Angelina Ballerina. For film, her work includes Bypass, Les Miserables, and Wild Bill.

Eve Best is playing Olivia Brown. Her theatre credits in London include Hedda Gabler (Almeida Theatre / Duke of York’s – Olivier Award for Best Actress, Evening Standard Award for Best Actress), Antony and Cleopatra, Much Ado About Nothing, Macbeth (Shakespeare’s Globe),The Duchess of Malfi, A Moon for the Misbegotten (The Old Vic), As You Like It (RSC/Sheffield Crucible), Le Misanthrope (Chichester Minerva), Mourning Becomes Electra (Critics’ Circle Award for Best Actress), The Coast of Utopia, Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard and The Heiress (all National Theatre), and ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore (Young Vic – London Evening Standard Award and Critics’ Circle Award for Best Newcomer). Her theatre work on Broadway includes Harold Pinter’s Old Times and The Homecoming (Tony Award nomination for Best Actress) and A Moon for the Misbegotten (Tony Award nomination for Best Actress, Drama Desk and Outer Critics’ Circle Awards for Best Actress). For television, her work includes Lucky Man, Nurse Jackie, The Honourable Woman, Life in Squares, The Shadow Line, Shackleton and Prime Suspect; and for film, The King’s Speech. She made her directorial debut with Macbeth at Shakespeare’s Globe in 2013. This is her third collaboration with Trevor Nunn following The Cherry Orchard and The Coast of Utopia.

Edward Bluemel (Michael Brown) by Catherine Ashmore

Edward Bluemel plays Michael Brown. His theatre credits include Animal, Longing, Strange Orchestra, The Winter’s Tale (Richard Burton Theatre Company), Mercury Fur (Company of Sirens). His television credits include The Halcyon. His film credits include The Commuter, Access All Areas.

Read our exclusive interview with Edward Bluemel

Anthony Head plays Sir John Fletcher. His theatre includes Ticking (Trafalgar Studios), Six Degrees of Separation (The Old Vic), The Tempest (New Huntington Theatre), Otherwise Engaged (Criterion) Peter Pan, Pirates of Penzance (Savoy Theatre), The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Duke of York’s), Rope (Wyndham’s), Chess (Prince Edward), Yonadab, The Prince of Homburg (National Theatre) and Patriot for Me (Chichester Festival). For television his work include Still Star-Crossed, Guilt, Drunk History, Harmony, Dominion, Galavant, The Selection, Warehouse 13, Dancing on the Edge, Free Agents, Sold, The Invisibles, Sensitive Skin, Dr Who, Persuasion, Hotel Babylon, Rose and Maloney, My Family, Monarch of the Glen, MIT, New Tricks, Little Britain, Reversals, Manchild, Spooks, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Love in a Cold Climate; and for film, A Street Cat Named Bob, Despite the Falling Snow, Flying Home, Convenience, Percy Jackson: The Sea of Monsters, Ghost Rider – Spirit of Vengeance, The Iron Lady, The Great Ghost Rescue, Repo! The Genetic Opera, Sweeny Todd and The Tourist.

Vivienne Rochester plays Miss Dell. Her theatre work includes The Magna Carta Plays (Salisbury Playhouse), Singing Stones (Arcola Theatre), The Women’s Spring (The Roundhouse), Twelfth Night (Leicester Haymarket, Belgrade Coventry), Tamburlaine (British Council Tour), Hobson’s Choice (Birmingham Rep), Electra (Shaw Theatre), Sir Thomas Moore (Shaw Theatre), Restoration, Macbeth, The Balcony, Kissing the Pope and The Rover (Royal Shakespeare Company), and A Mouthful of Birds (Royal Court, Birmingham Rep). For television Little White Lies, Men of the Month and Window of Vulnerability.

Nicola Sloane returns to the Menier Chocolate Factory to play Polton/Celia Wentworth – she previously appeared in A Little Night Music (also West End). Her other theatre credits include London Road, 50th Anniversary Gala, Anything Goes and Love’s Labour’s Lost (National Theatre), Flowers for Mrs Harris, My Fair Lady and Me and My Girl (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield), Two Cities (Salisbury Playhouse), Enter the Guardsman (Donmar Warehouse), Strife, Way Upstream, The Gondoliers and The Waterbabies (Chichester Festival Theatre), To Kill a Mockingbird (Royal Exchange Manchester), and The Sound of Music, Acorn Antiques, Spend Spend Spend, Martin Guerre, Les Miserables and The Woman in Black (West End). For television, her work includes Maigret, Black Mirror, Home Fires, Call the Midwife, Parade’s End, Dancing on the Edge and Home Again; and for film, The Danish Girl, The Tale of Tales, London Road, Mr Turner, The Theory of Everything, Les Miserables, Broken and Season of the Witch.

Produced by Chocolate Factory Productions & Nica Burns, Darren Bagert/Joan Raffe and Scott Delman

Set and costume designs are by Stephen Brimson Lewis; with lighting design by Paul Pyant; sound design by Gregory Clarke, and projections by Duncan McLean.

Listings Information Love in Idleness Venue: Apollo Theatre Address: Shaftesbury Avenue, London, W1D 7ES Press Night: 18 May at 7pm Dates: 11 May – 1 July

http://ift.tt/2p4XiPa LondonTheatre1.com

#IFTTT #LondonTheatre1.com

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SILKY SMOOTH

The project has moved on to the making stage, which is exciting. I normally like to get stuck in pretty quickly, but having done so much research, I’m feeling a lot more prepared for the actually photo taking process. Religious iconography obviously has so much meaning and depth behind it, and I think research was necessary, or the outcome would just look like a cheap imitation. I’ve taken some time just mapping out my own compositions, using the golden ration as a starting point, and the book ‘Vision, Composition and Photography’ as a very helpful reference shot. I’ve done a little reading on set design, as I want the images to have a very ornate and sort of decadent feel to them. Stephen Brimson Lewis has designed a couple sets for multiple plays with religious undertones, and he placed an emphasis on lighting, using glass and shadows to create intricate shapes and patterns in the space. I think that’s I would love to play with something like that, but I have limited experience myself with set design, so I’m going to have to keep things as simple as possible without loosing the kind of vibe I’m trying to create. Instead, I bought some yards of different coloured silk. It still has the sort of luxurious and decadent look I wanted in the background, but isn’t as complicated as building my own actual backdrop. Plus, layering the different fabrics gives me the chance to play with different shadows and shapes.

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How Royal Shakespeare Company designed The Tempest from Design Week on Vimeo.

We speak with Stephen Brimson Lewis, director of design at the RSC, about how the theatre worked with Intel to create a digital spectacle on stage for its latest production of The Tempest.

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With Travesties and David Baddiel: My Family Not the Sitcom taking up residence in the West End, Funny Girl on the road as part of a major national tour, the Menier Chocolate Factory today announces the West End transfer of their current critically acclaimed revival of Terence Rattigan’s Love in Idleness. Trevor Nunn directs Eve Best (Olivia Brown), Edward Bluemel (Michael Brown), Anthony Head (Sir John Fletcher), Vivienne Rochester (Miss Dell) and Nicola Sloane (Polton/Celia Wentworth). The production plays a strictly limited season for just 50 performances, opening on 18 May at the Apollo Theatre, with previews from 11 May, and is running until 1 July. Tickets go on sale to Menier Chocolate Factory members today, 27 March, at 6am, with public booking opening at 9am on 29 March.

Returning from Canada after a four-year absence during the war, eighteen-year-old Michael is full of youthful ideology and leftist leanings. But he is shocked to find his widowed mother Olivia is now the mistress of cabinet minister Sir John Fletcher, enjoying a comfortable society life. When Michael and John clash, sparks fly and relationships are tested as everyone learns some difficult lessons in love.

This new production sees Nunn return to Rattigan, following the huge success of Flare Path, with another of the playwright’s trio of ‘war plays’, which also includes While the Sun Shines.

Nunn will follow Love and Idleness at the Menier Chocolate Factory with Lettice and Lovage opening on 17 May, with previews from 4 May, and completing its run on 8 July.

Terence Rattigan’s (1911 – 1977) major works include The Deep Blue Sea, The Browning Version, Separate Tables, French without Tears and The Winslow Boy.

Eve Best is playing Olivia Brown. Her theatre credits in London include Hedda Gabler (Almeida Theatre / Duke of York’s – Olivier Award for Best Actress, Evening Standard Award for Best Actress), Antony and Cleopatra, Much Ado About Nothing, Macbeth (Shakespeare’s Globe),The Duchess of Malfi, A Moon for the Misbegotten (The Old Vic), As You Like It (RSC/Sheffield Crucible), Le Misanthrope (Chichester Minerva), Mourning Becomes Electra (Critics’ Circle Award for Best Actress), The Coast of Utopia, Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard and The Heiress (all National Theatre), and ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore (Young Vic – London Evening Standard Award and Critics’ Circle Award for Best Newcomer). Her theatre work on Broadway includes Harold Pinter’s Old Times and The Homecoming (Tony Award nomination for Best Actress) and A Moon for the Misbegotten (Tony Award nomination for Best Actress, Drama Desk and Outer Critics’ Circle Awards for Best Actress). For television, her work includes Lucky Man, Nurse Jackie, The Honourable Woman, Life in Squares, The Shadow Line, Shackleton and Prime Suspect; and for film, The King’s Speech. She made her directorial debut with Macbeth at Shakespeare’s Globe in 2013. This is her third collaboration with Trevor Nunn following The Cherry Orchard and The Coast of Utopia.

Edward Bluemel plays Michael Brown. His theatre credits include Animal, Longing, Strange Orchestra, The Winter’s Tale (Richard Burton Theatre Company), Mercury Fur (Company of Sirens). His television credits include The Halcyon. His film credits include The Commuter, Access All Areas.

Anthony Head plays Sir John Fletcher. His theatre includes Ticking (Trafalgar Studios), Six Degrees of Separation (The Old Vic), The Tempest (New Huntington Theatre), Otherwise Engaged (Criterion) Peter Pan, Pirates of Penzance (Savoy Theatre), The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Duke of York’s), Rope (Wyndham’s), Chess (Prince Edward), Yonadab, The Prince of Homburg (National Theatre) and Patriot for Me (Chichester Festival). For television his work include Still Star-Crossed, Guilt, Drunk History, Harmony, Dominion, Galavant, The Selection, Warehouse 13, Dancing on the Edge, Free Agents, Sold, The Invisibles, Sensitive Skin, Dr Who, Persuasion, Hotel Babylon, Rose and Maloney, My Family, Monarch of the Glen, MIT, New Tricks, Little Britain, Reversals, Manchild, Spooks, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Love in a Cold Climate; and for film, A Street Cat Named Bob, Despite the Falling Snow, Flying Home, Convenience, Percy Jackson: The Sea of Monsters, Ghost Rider – Spirit of Vengeance, The Iron Lady, The Great Ghost Rescue, Repo! The Genetic Opera, Sweeny Todd and The Tourist.

Vivienne Rochester plays Miss Dell. Her theatre work includes The Magna Carta Plays (Salisbury Playhouse), Singing Stones (Arcola Theatre), The Women’s Spring (The Roundhouse), Twelfth Night (Leicester Haymarket, Belgrade Coventry), Tamburlaine (British Council Tour), Hobson’s Choice (Birmingham Rep), Electra (Shaw Theatre), Sir Thomas Moore (Shaw Theatre), Restoration, Macbeth, The Balcony, Kissing the Pope and The Rover (Royal Shakespeare Company), and A Mouthful of Birds (Royal Court, Birmingham Rep). For television Little White Lies, Men of the Month and Window of Vulnerability.

Nicola Sloane returns to the Menier Chocolate Factory to play Polton/Celia Wentworth – she previously appeared in A Little Night Music (also West End). Her other theatre credits include London Road, 50th Anniversary Gala, Anything Goes and Love’s Labour’s Lost (National Theatre), Flowers for Mrs Harris, My Fair Lady and Me and My Girl (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield), Two Cities (Salisbury Playhouse), Enter the Guardsman (Donmar Warehouse), Strife, Way Upstream, The Gondoliers and The Waterbabies (Chichester Festival Theatre), To Kill a Mockingbird (Royal Exchange Manchester), and The Sound of Music, Acorn Antiques, Spend Spend Spend, Martin Guerre, Les Miserables and The Woman in Black (West End). For television, her work includes Maigret, Black Mirror, Home Fires, Call the Midwife, Parade’s End, Dancing on the Edge and Home Again; and for film, The Danish Girl, The Tale of Tales, London Road, Mr Turner, The Theory of Everything, Les Miserables, Broken and Season of the Witch.

From 1968 to 1986, Trevor Nunn was the youngest ever Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, directing over thirty productions, including most of the Shakespeare canon, as well as Nicholas Nickleby and Les Misérables. From 1997 to 2003, he was Artistic Director of the National Theatre, where his productions included Troilus and Cressida, Oklahoma!, The Merchant of Venice, Summerfolk, My Fair Lady, A Streetcar Named Desire, Anything Goes and Love’s Labour’s Lost. He has directed the world premières of Tom Stoppard’s plays Arcadia, The Coast of Utopia and Rock n Roll; and of Cats, Sunset Boulevard, Starlight Express and Aspects of Love by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Other theatre includes Timon of Athens, Skellig (Young Vic); The Lady From The Sea (Almeida Theatre); Hamlet, Richard II, Inherit the Wind (The Old Vic), A Little Night Music (Menier Chocolate Factory, West End and Broadway), Cyrano de Bergerac, Kiss Me Kate (Chichester Festival Theatre); Heartbreak House, Flare Path, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Tempest (Theatre Royal, Haymarket); Scenes from a Marriage (Coventry & St James), All That Fall (Jermyn Street & New York); A Chorus of Disapproval and Relative Values (West End). Work for television includes Antony and Cleopatra, The Comedy of Errors, Macbeth, Three Sisters, Othello, The Merchant of Venice and King Lear, and on film, Hedda, Lady Jane and Twelfth Night.

Produced by Chocolate Factory Productions & Nica Burns.

Set and costume designs are by Stephen Brimson Lewis; with lighting design by Paul Pyant; sound design by Gregory Clarke, and projections by Duncan McLean.

Helen George is unable to transfer with the production due to prior filming commitments.

Listings Information Love in Idleness Venue: Apollo Theatre Address: Shaftesbury Avenue, London, W1D 7ES Press Night: 18 May at 7pm Dates: 11 May – 1 July

http://ift.tt/2nEbAUY LondonTheatre1.com

#IFTTT #LondonTheatre1.com

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With She Loves Me currently running at its home base, Travesties and David Baddiel: My Family Not the Sitcom taking up residence in the West End, and Funny Girl in rehearsals ahead of a major national tour, the Menier Chocolate Factory today announces full casting for their major new revival of Terence Rattigan’s Love in Idleness. Trevor Nunn directs Eve Best (Olivia Brown), Edward Bluemel (Michael Brown), Helen George (Diana Fletcher), Anthony Head (Sir John Fletcher), Vivienne Rochester (Miss Dell) and Helen Sloane (Polton/Celia Wentworth). The production opens on 20th March, with previews from 9th March, and is running until 29th April.

Returning from Canada after a four-year absence during the war, eighteen-year-old Michael is full of youthful ideology and leftist leanings. But he is shocked to find his widowed mother Olivia is now the mistress of cabinet minister Sir John Fletcher, enjoying a comfortable society life. When Michael and John clash, sparks fly and relationships are tested as everyone learns some difficult lessons in love.

This new production sees Nunn return to Rattigan, following the huge success of Flare Path, with another of the playwright’s trio of ‘war plays’, which also includes While the Sun Shines.

Nunn will follow Love and Idleness with Lettice and Lovage opening on 17th May, with previews from 4 May, and completing its run on 8th July.

Terence Rattigan’s (1911– 1977) major works include The Deep Blue Sea, The Browning Version, Separate Tables, French without Tears and The Winslow Boy.

Eve Best is playing Olivia Brown. Her theatre credits in London include Hedda Gabler (Almeida Theatre / Duke of York’s  – Olivier Award for Best Actress, Evening Standard Award for Best Actress),

Antony and Cleopatra, Much Ado About Nothing, Macbeth (Shakespeare’s Globe),The Duchess of Malfi, A Moon for the Misbegotten (The Old Vic), As You Like It (RSC/Sheffield Crucible), Le Misanthrope (Chichester Minerva), Mourning Becomes Electra (Critics’ Circle Award for Best Actress), The Coast of Utopia, Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard and The Heiress (all National Theatre), and ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore(Young Vic – London Evening Standard Award and Critics’ Circle Award for Best Newcomer). Her theatre work on Broadway includes Harold Pinter’s Old Times and The Homecoming (Tony Award nomination for Best Actress) and A Moon for the Misbegotten (Tony Award nomination for Best Actress, Drama Desk and Outer Critics’ Circle Awards for Best Actress). For television, her work includes Lucky Man, Nurse Jackie, The Honourable Woman, Life in Squares, The Shadow Line, Shackleton and Prime Suspect; and for film, The King’s Speech. She made her directorial debut with Macbeth at Shakespeare’s Globe in 2013. This is her third collaboration with Trevor Nunn following The Cherry Orchard and The Coast of Utopia.

Edward Bluemel plays Michael Brown. His theatre credits include Animal, Longing, Strange Orchestra, The Winter’s Tale (Richard Burton Theatre Company), Mercury Fur (Company of Sirens). His television credits include The Halcyon. His film credits include The Commuter, Access All Areas.

Helen George plays Diana Fletcher. Her theatre includes After Miss Julie (Theatre Royal Bath and UK tour), The Hotel Plays: The Pink Bedroom (Defibrillator Theatre), A Christmas Fair, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Milton Rooms), By Jeeves  (Landor Theatre), The Woman in White (Palace Theatre) and Company. For television, her work includes Call the Midwife, Red Dwarf, Over to Bill, Dark Matters, Hotel Babylon II, Gatecrasher Summer Sound System; and for film, Scar Tissue, The Child, The Three Musketeers, 7Lives.

Anthony Head plays Sir John Fletcher. His theatre includes Ticking (Trafalgar Studios), Six Degrees of Separation (The Old Vic), The Tempest (New Huntington Theatre), Otherwise Engaged (Criterion) Peter Pan, Pirates of Penzance (Savoy Theatre), The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Duke of York’s), Rope (Wyndham’s), Chess (Prince Edward), Yonadab, The Prince of Homburg (National Theatre) and Patriot for Me (Chichester Festival).  For television his work include Still Star-Crossed, Guilt, Drunk History, Harmony, Dominion, Galavant, The Selection, Warehouse 13, Dancing on the Edge, Free Agents, Sold, The Invisibles, Sensitive Skin, Dr Who, Persuasion, Hotel Babylon, Rose and Maloney, My Family, Monarch of the Glen, MIT, New Tricks, Little Britain, Reversals, Manchild, Spooks, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Love in a Cold Climate; and for film, A Street Cat Named Bob, Despite the Falling Snow, Flying Home, Convenience, Percy Jackson: The Sea of Monsters, Ghost Rider – Spirit of Vengeance, The Iron Lady, The Great Ghost Rescue, Repo! The Genetic Opera, Sweeny Todd and The Tourist.

Vivienne Rochester plays Miss Dell. Her theatre work includes The Magna Carta Plays (Salisbury Playhouse), Singing Stones (Arcola Theatre), The Women’s Spring (The Roundhouse), Twelfth Night (Leicester Haymarket, Belgrade Coventry), Tamburlaine (British Council Tour), Hobson’s Choice (Birmingham Rep), Electra (Shaw Theatre), Sir Thomas Moore (Shaw Theatre), Restoration, Macbeth, The Balcony, Kissing the Pope and The Rover (Royal Shakespeare Company), and A Mouthful of Birds (Royal Court, Birmingham Rep). For television Little White Lies, Men of the Month and Window of Vulnerability.

Helen Sloane returns to the Menier Chocolate Factory to play Polton/Celia Wentworth – she previously appeared in   A Little Night Music (also West End). Her other theatre credits include London Road, 50th Anniversary Gala, Anything Goes and Love’s Labour’s Lost (National Theatre), Flowers for Mrs Harris, My Fair Lady and Me and My Girl (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield), Two Cities (Salisbury Playhouse), Enter the Guardsman (Donmar Warehouse), Strife, Way Upstream, The Gondoliers and The Waterbabies (Chichester Festival Theatre), To Kill a Mockingbird (Royal Exchange  Manchester), and The Sound of Music, Acorn Antiques, Spend Spend Spend, Martin Guerre, Les Miserables and The Woman in Black (West End). For television, her work includes Maigret, Black Mirror, Home Fires, Call the Midwife, Parade’s End, Dancing on the Edge and Home Again; and for film, The Danish Girl, The Tale of Tales, London Road, Mr Turner, The Theory of Everything, Les Miserables, Broken and Season of the Witch.

From 1968 to 1986, Trevor Nunn was the youngest ever Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, directing over thirty productions, including most of the Shakespeare canon, as well as Nicholas Nickleby and Les Misérables.  From 1997 to 2003, he was Artistic Director of the National Theatre, where his productions included Troilus and Cressida, Oklahoma!, The Merchant of Venice, Summerfolk, My Fair Lady, A Streetcar Named Desire, Anything Goes and Love’s Labour’s Lost.  He has directed the world premières of Tom Stoppard’s plays Arcadia, The Coast of Utopia and Rock n Roll; and of Cats, Sunset Boulevard, Starlight Express and Aspects of Love by Andrew Lloyd Webber.  Other theatre includes Timon of Athens, Skellig (Young Vic); The Lady From The Sea (Almeida Theatre); Hamlet, Richard II, Inherit the Wind (The Old Vic), A Little Night Music (Menier Chocolate Factory, West End and Broadway), Cyrano de Bergerac, Kiss Me Kate (Chichester Festival Theatre); Heartbreak House, Flare Path, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Tempest (Theatre Royal, Haymarket); Scenes from a Marriage (Coventry & St James), All That Fall (Jermyn Street & New York); A Chorus of Disapproval and Relative Values (West End).  Work for television includes Antony and Cleopatra, The Comedy of Errors, Macbeth, Three Sisters, Othello, The Merchant of Venice and King Lear, and on film, Hedda, Lady Jane and Twelfth Night. 

Designs are by Stephen Brimson-Lewis; with lighting design by Paul Pyant; sound design by Gregory Clarke, and projections by Duncan McLean.

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Stellar line-up for 2017 Fugard Bioscope season

Now in its sixth phenomenally successful year, the Fugard Bioscope presents screenings of the world’s best theatre, opera and ballet productions.

NO MANS LAND by Pinter, , Writer – Harold Pinter, Director – Sean Mathias, Set and costumes – Stephen Brimson Lewis, Lighting – Peter Kaczorowski, Sheffield, 2016, Credit: Johan Persson

The Fugard has once again partnered with illustrious companies such as The Royal Opera House, The Royal Ballet and Bolshoi Ballet as well as Great Britain’s National Theatre to offer a stellar line up of spectacular productions to be enjoyed from the comfort of a Fugard Theatre seat.

There are a number of exciting new additions for the 2017 season, including screenings from the Salzburg Festival Opera, The Globe and The Royal Shakespeare Company.

Films are screened on Sunday mornings at 11am in the Fugard’s state-of-the-art Bioscope, including a 7.1 dolby digital surround sound system and full size high definition cinema screen.

“The Fugard Bioscope has gained momentum every year and we are delighted to be presenting our most extensive programme yet for the 2017 season,” says Greg Karvellas, Resident Director and General Manager of the Fugard Theatre. “With our full-size high definition screen, and the nature of the live recordings, the experience puts you right on stage in the heart of the action.

“There are some wonderful new productions as part of The National Theatre Live series, such as No Man’s Land featuring Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart. The NT’s staging of Amadeus, Peter Shaffer`s iconic play about Mozart, music, power and jealousy, stars Lucian Msamati of Luther and Game of Thrones fame. There’s also the NT Live production of Hedda Gabler, directed by Tony Award-winning director Ivo van Hove and featuring Ruth Wilson (Luther).

“We are also proud to be associated with our new partners this season,” says Karvellas. “Audiences will be able to see the work of Salzburg Festival Opera with Beethoven’s Fidelio and Cavalleria Rusticana, which brought record attendances to the Salzburg Easter Festival.”

Presentations from the Royal Shakespeare Company include Shakespeare’s rarely performed romance, Cymbeline and King Lear, starring Anthony Sher. In the latter part of the season, there are screenings of The Globe’s productions of Richard II, The Merchant of Venice and Measure for Measure.

Dance lovers are in for a treat with a selection of classics from the Bolshoi Ballet including Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty as well a number of their other productions such as The Golden Age, a passionate love story and vibrant production as a satire of Europe during the Roaring 20s. Don’t miss The Royal Ballet’s productions of George Balanchine`s Jewels and Woolf Works, the first revival of Wayne McGregor`s critically acclaimed ballet triptych, inspired by the works of Virginia Woolf.

Some must-sees for opera aficionados are The Royal Opera House productions of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly with soprano Ermonela Jaho in the title role and Otello directed by Olivier Award-winning Keith Warner.

Tickets for the Bioscope are limited and sell out quickly so don’t delay to book your seat.

For the full line up visit: http://www.thefugard.com/whats-on/coming-soon/item/the-2017-fugard-biscope-world-arts-season

Screenings take place at The Fugard Bioscope on selected Sundays at 11am. Tickets cost R100 and can be booked through Computicket on 0861 915 8000, online at www.computicket.com or at any Shoprite Checkers outlet. Bookings can also be made at the Fugard Theatre box office on 021 461 4554.

The Fugard foyer bar is open from 10am, serving a range of delicious light snacks as well as the finest coffee, wine and drinks.

The Fugard Theatre is situated in the heart of District Six, on the corner of Harrington and Caledon Streets, Cape Town. Harrington Street car park is located at the corner of Caledon and Harrington streets and is available for the use of Fugard Bioscope patrons.

For further information visit www.thefugard.com

Stellar line-up for 2017 Fugard Bioscope season was originally published on Artsvark