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This could be critically important for new playwrights over the next few years. We shall see…
Monsterism may have started out as a moan but it is a positive, forward-looking campaign by writers to ask British theatre to raise its game. Moira Buffini says:
“Deluded though I may be, I am an optimist. If we playwrights […]
Saw Friel’s Aristocrats at the National. Left feeling slightly perplexed. I wasn’t particularly moved by the play and the pacing seemed slow but perhaps I simply just wasn’t engaging it on its level. I shall dwell on it. It certainly is meant to deal with “big” intergenerational themes of the “aristocratic” roman-catholic Irish seen through […]
Prometheus Bound is a rarely performed Aeschylus [disputed] play.
It’s a tragedy and is the first in a trilogy. Unfortunately the two sequels, Prometheus Unbound, and Prometheus the Fire Bringer are ‘lost’.
The play is set after the Olympian gods, led by Zeus, have overthrown the Titans, the older race of gods led by Kronos […]
Lyn Gardner makes the point that new writing with poor directing and poor production can damage the writing/writer beyond repair (See Here). Equally, good writing can certainly be helped and nurtured by good directors and theatres. I agree, exposure too early on or too harshly can ruin promising writers and writing.
Most writers take a while, […]
Theatre of Blood
by Lee Simpson and Phelim McDermott of Improbable
Until Sep 10 at the National Theatre
The blurb: Seven self-regarding critics assemble at a disused theatre in response to a mysterious invitation. Too late they discover its gruesome purpose as Edward Lionheart, an actor frenzied by a lifetime of sneering reviews, hacks his revengeful way through […]
Natalie Abrahami (see Stage profile here) has won the James Menzies-Kitchen directing award and her production of Beckett’s Play/Not I recieved good reviews at the BAC.
I have to declare a possible bias as she’s directed a reading of one my plays, Yellow Men and I think she is an intelligent, thoughtful and sharp director […]