Menier Chocolate Factory is currently home to Fiasco Theater’s Off-Broadway production of the Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine musical, Into The Woods. This company of actor-musicians demonstrates story-telling and ensemble work at its finest. The 10 performers multi-role excellently, with a particularly amusing turn from bearded Andy Grotelueschen, transforming between Jack’s female cow Milky White with a baby’s milk bottle for an udder, to an Ugly Step-Sister with a floral curtain rail as a dress, as well as playing Rapunzel’s cock-sure prince on a hobby horse.
Theatre News and Reviews
18 Jul
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Review: INTO THE WOODS – Menier Chocolate Factory
By Harriet Grenville Monday, July 18 2016, 09:37
18 Jul
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Review: THE STRIPPER at St James Theatre
By Phil Willmott Monday, July 18 2016, 07:28
The smart and welcoming St James Theatre near Victoria Station has just been acquired by Andrew Lloyd Webber and will become an incubator venue for new musicals in the new year. Before that happens there's plenty of musical revivals to come, modern classics Rent and The Last Five Years are scheduled for new productions following a production of mine in the main house and it's neat little cabaret bar is currently home to an intimate staging of The Stripper, an infamous flop from the 1980s with lyrics by Richard O'Brien who wrote The Rocky Horror Show.
17 Jul
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Review: THE KREUTZER SONATA at Arcola Theatre
By David Scotland Sunday, July 17 2016, 14:15
Located in the heart of Dalston, the Arcola Theatre is a venue that is more than comfortable in its hipster surroundings. Across two spaces, it boasts a varied programme of emerging and established artists. As actors go, they don’t come more established than Greg Hicks. A longstanding member of the Royal Shakespeare Company and Olivier Nominated for his portrayal of Coriolanus, Hick’s is currently starring in The Kreutzer Sonata in Studio 1 of the Arcola.
10 Jul
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Review: NEEDLES AND OPIUM at The Barbican Centre
By Nastazja Domaradzka Sunday, July 10 2016, 08:25
For over 30 years now Robert Lepage has been revolutionising theatre by making pioneering, visually enchanting and breath-taking work. NEEDLES AND OPIUM, which was first premiered in 1991 was reworked by the Canadian theatre maker 3 years ago. Currently touring and making a stop at The Barbican Centre this production is further proof that Rober Lapage’s genius never ceases to amaze.
09 Jul
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Review: UNREACHABLE at the Royal Court
By Phil Willmott Saturday, July 9 2016, 11:14
Some of the most thrilling, challenging, entertaining and exasperating theatre I've ever seen has been written and directed by Anthony Neilson. The one thing you'll never be at a Neilson play is bored. He is extraordinarily uncompromising both in what he writes and how he rehearses, always pushing at the boundaries of good taste before stepping way over the line and often discovering universal truths in the process.
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