By Phil Willmott Monday, October 17 2016, 14:02
There’s so much to enjoy in Birmingham Royal Ballet’s version of Shakespeare’s THE TEMPEST, choreographed by their Artistic Director, David Bintley, with a new score by Sally Beamish.
The ballet, as you would expect, simplifies the original plot but the ex Duke of Milan, Pospero and his eligible daughter, Miranda are still shipwrecked on an island following a coup back home in which his brother has seized power.
By Stuart King Saturday, October 15 2016, 11:17
Back in 1983 I had the extraordinary privilege of witnessing Albert Finney and Tom Courtenay deliver two of the most theatrically ebullient performances about the grandeur and grimness of a life in luvvydom, ever committed to celluloid. This was Peter Yates film version of The Dresser which relied upon Ronald Harwood’s exceptional scripting of his original play to generate considerable critical success, including 5 Academy Award nominations.
By Andrew Bewley Wednesday, October 12 2016, 16:23
Bringing Lillian Hellmann’s favourite play, The Autumn Garden, to the London stage for the first time, Anthony Bigg's production is a delight.
Wonderfully subtle in its observation of Love and all its pitfalls (regret being the main focus) and beautifully slow paced.
By Phil Willmott Wednesday, October 12 2016, 15:54
I really enjoyed the current revival of THE DRESSER last night, Ronald Harwood’s melancholy comic tragedy about a back stage wardrobe assistant coaxing and bullying an ageing actor through a production of King Lear during a WW2 bombing raid. Through this situation Harwood explores the futility we all feel from time to time using theatre life as a metaphor for existence.
By Phil Willmott Monday, October 10 2016, 15:01
The actor Rufus Sewell has been very busy recently and you can currently enjoy two superb pieces of TV acting by him. He is impossibly handsome and utterly terrifying in the Amazon Prime hit, THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE, as a Nazi Officer and impossibly handsome and adorably kind in ITV’s VICTORIA in which he plays Queen Victoria’s first love, Lord Marlborough.
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