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Post by victoriantheatre on May 11, 2018 23:05:03 GMT
A prolific playwright! His own plays: Europe (1994) One Way Street (1995) The Architect (1996) Caledonia Dreaming (1997) The Cosmonaut's Last Message to the Woman He Once Loved in the Former Soviet Union (1999) The Speculator (1999) Danny 306 + Me (4Ever) (1999) Victoria (2000) Dr Korczak’s Example (2001) Casanova (2001) Outlying Islands (2002) San Diego (2003) American Pilot (2005) Pyrenees (2005) Yellow Moon: the Ballad of Leila and Lee (2006) Damascus (2007) Midsummer (2008) Dunsinane (2010) The Monster in the Hall (2010) The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart (2011) The Letter of Last Resort (2012) The Events (2013) Translations and Adaptations: Battle of Will (2002), Laurent Gaudé Caligula (2003), Albert Camus Oedipus the visionary (2005), Sophocles The Bacchae (2007), Euripides, Creditors (2008), August Strindberg Peter Pan (2010), adaptation of JM Barrie's original fairy tale Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory : the new musical (2013), from the story by Roald Dahl Lanark: A Life in Three Acts (2015), from the novel by Alasdair Gray The Suppliant Women (2016), Aeschylus
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Post by victoriantheatre on Apr 18, 2018 23:28:27 GMT
I can't really write
A haiku or review but
parsley - share your views
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Post by victoriantheatre on Mar 8, 2018 12:22:11 GMT
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Post by victoriantheatre on Aug 14, 2016 14:59:48 GMT
The announcement didn't name the cast member or specify gender. If my surmise above is correct then yes it was Fiona Button but I am just guessing.
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Post by victoriantheatre on Aug 14, 2016 8:08:08 GMT
Agreed! Though looking at the trailer - and the rather forlorn drum kit on stage for the start of the second act - I wonder if Act 2 would have had the concert centre stage?
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Post by victoriantheatre on Aug 14, 2016 6:39:06 GMT
This didn't look like it was going to be as engaging as "Ruined" (Almeida a few years ago) or the Young Vic's "A Season in the Congo". Not a very original premise of ostensibly idealistic young white British woman determined to"give Congo a voice" by organising some sort of cultural festival. What this festival was to be and where it was going to take place may have become clearer in Act 2 (a live band was promised). Her ability to get this off the ground is hampered by a series of stock characters who may as well have been wearing badges saying "White British male PR who thing racism and sexism might make him attractive to main character", "Intense American aid worker". "Bluff male in cycle helmet concerned about conflict minerals", "Ugandan philosophical about people thinking he is Congolese", "Congolese freedom fighter who runs an Internet cafe". "Charismatic Congolese preacher who doesn't want to get involved" - the list goes on! It's set in the round and so quite a lot of the dialogue was spoken away from at least parts of the audience which made for audibility issues. They use a slightly tricksy device of using surtitles in a Congolese language when some of the characters are speaking in London in English to our ears and English surtitles when in the Congo. Hard to explain - you had to be there! All further confused by a tall striking man in scarlet and pink who appeared to be there to announce the sound effects ("A phone rings"....). Re the accident: if it is the main character who was injured, it may have happened when she tripped up onto the stage at the very end of Act 1. She is traumatised by some flash back events and can hardly speak. I now wonder if she was traumatised by having dislocated her shoulder? There was an "Is there a doctor in the house?" announcement in the interval and then once everyone was back in the theatre for the start of Act 2 (the only practical way really) we were told "a member of the cast" had dislocated their shoulder and was on the way to A+E. With regret etc etc. So back to the play, I would have stayed for Act 2 (I am for the most part a stayer) but it would have been a long one (Act 1 was 1h15 and Act 2 was promised as 1h45).
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Post by victoriantheatre on Aug 13, 2016 21:22:13 GMT
Oh dear! Tonight's performance cancelled after Act 1 when key cast member dislocates shoulder. Get well soon and good luck for the show!
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