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The Don can often be found romping around the world’s great opera houses wearing old renaissance bloomers and looking lusty but predictably fusty. This month he’s ditched the doublet and hose and slipped out of the opera house to go clubbing. Dominic Grey’s bold new promenade production of Don Giovanni is staged in Heaven, one... Read more
As soon as we got wind of a show in town based on the classic 1970’s musical ‘Annie’ with a darkened twist at its pink frilled edges, we couldn’t wait see it. “We call it ‘The R rated family show’”, the director tells us afterwards, a sly grin spreading across her face. With an overtly... Read more
Iranian-born actor Ramin Karimloo is an institution on the West End, and has recently been nominated for an Olivier award for his portrayal of the Phantom of the Opera in the Lloyd-Webber musical’s sequel, Love Never Dies; this week, photographer Alisa Connan sent us these intimate portraits of Ramin backstage at the Adelphi, moments before... Read more
Words by Stephen McEwen. The world of theatre always seems obsessed with genre, always striving towards the apparently ‘serious arts’ of tragedy or satire; it’s rather refreshing to see something a bit different, in fact (unsurprisingly, at ‘The Print Room’, where the creative ethos seems set very much on such an artistic approach) in the... Read more
Words by Stephen McEwen. ‘The average UK citizen takes 14 000 pills in a lifetime’ is the tagline for the dance-theatre production ‘Side Effects’, and a rather disconcerting one at that. This, I thought beforehand, could result in one of two things: socio-political satire about evil drugs companies keeping medicine from dying Africans, or trainspotting-esque... Read more
Words by Stephen McEwen. ‘To be or not to be’ must be the question which enters every director’s mind when asking whether to stage a new ‘Hamlet‘ – such a canonical and theatrically admired text, which has been done so brilliantly before, must instil fear in theatre practitioners across the boards, as they are haunted... Read more
Words by Stephen McEwen. It is rather refreshing to see a new theatre, The Print Room in Notting Hill, open in such a climate of Spartan austerity; what is equally as stimulating and invigorating is its first production, ‘Fabrication.’ ‘Fabrication’ (an adaptation of the original ‘Affabulazione’) forms part of the rather overlooked theatrical work of... Read more
Words by Stephen McEwen. The dramatic manifestation of psychology is often a tricky one; the subject tends to lend itself more readily to the format of the novel – Sylvia Plath’s ‘The Bell Jar’ for example, or ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ which, lest we forget, first appeared in the form of a novel... Read more
Words by Stephen McEwen. In the wake of the recent WikiLeaks documents re-informing the world of the war crimes committed in Iraq, Palace of the End at the Arcola could not be better timed. Canadian writer Judith Thompson shows to us three individuals’ case studies of war, in an attempt to re-address the run-up to... Read more
Words by Stephen McEwen. Over Gardens Out is the second play to be produced at Riverside Studios as part of its rather compact season of Peter Gill’s early works from the mid-sixties. Peter Gill may not sound like a familiar name, in the vein of David Hare or Harold Pinter, but his importance in the... Read more
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