Judith Brewer – Jenny Galloway The context of the story is set out in the opening scene – entirely without words – though eventually one ends up looking at the show’s programme in the interval for confirmation that the play is set in 1759 (well, I did anyway). It involves a king who brings down a curse from the gods on his son but blames that on his "evil" wife, while he, apparently, was guilty in Hughes's translation of "an error of judgment": what is he, an MP? Copyright 2020 www.LondonTheatre1.com, The Welkin by Lucy Kirkwood – Lyttelton Theatre – Review. It may not be reasonable for the audience to remember the names and biographical details of each of the twelve as they are quickly introduced by way of being sworn into the jury. US Mary Middleton/Emma Jenkins/Sarah Hollis – Daneka Etchells British theatres find it hard to get that across when staging Racine. Director – James Macdonald Voltaire, who quite often got things right, thought Phèdre was "the masterpiece of the human mind". The car park ticket must be stamped at the Lyttleton information desk, and presented on leaving the car park.) First published on Sun 14 Jun 2009 00.01 BST. He is the writer who makes most apparent the differences between French and British theatrical writing. Running Time: appox. The result is terrific as a Hughes drama but less persuasive as the vehicle for a 17th-century French playwright. Adrian Noble (artistic director) asked me to return to the Royal Shakespeare Company and I was close to agreeing to live in Stratford-upon-Avon again. The play does well to portray the conventions of the time – Judith Brewer (Jenny Galloway) is subjected to bloodletting, for instance, and it seems to work for her. ... Lyttelton Theatre, National, London . Add to that, the best artists, singers and actors perform at the Centurion Theatre; while you relax with a glass of wine – what more can you ask for! Yet these moments are delivered as rhetorical set pieces; she never seems driven from one statuesque or writhing pose to another. Fight Director – Rachel Bown-Williams of RC-ANNIE Ltd The play does well to portray the conventions of the time – Judith Brewer (Jenny Galloway) is subjected to bloodletting, for instance, and it seems to work for her. Tag: Lyttelton Theatre Marianne Elliott And Simon Stephens On Port, 7 February 2013. It tears and rampages, with choppy uneven lines, and a free and easy way with animal imagery. It didn’t come across to me as the women favouring the opinion of a man over that of one of their own, but rather seeking the advice of a medical professional – and as Sally points out, “I can have a doctor? Ann Lavender – Hara Yannas It has stand-out episodes: one of them is John Shrapnel's masterly delivery of an offstage confrontation which goes to the heart of the onstage action. But it turns out the Prime Suspect star and Hollywood queen has chosen a weighty Racine tragedy for her return to the stage, National Theatre performance of Phèdre plays to cinema audiences around the country. Perhaps it’s more than a little contrived, but as a theatrical device, it’s effective enough. Still, Phèdre is already a commercial success. Confined to one setting and one time, held in the clamp of a strict verse form - the famously untranslatable Alexandrines - these are claustrophobic cauldrons. This play is a recipient of an Edgerton Foundation New Plays Award Production supported by the Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater. But Racine isn't really what we get here. Some would say that the NT's modestly paid employees also made their contribution. The policy of playing in repertoire continued. Sally Poppy (Ria Zmitrowicz) doesn’t so much stand in the dock but is subjected to a jury of women, each of whom were ordered to attend court to determine whether Sally is genuinely with child (and thus is eligible for a stay of execution for a serious crime against the person). The acting was impeccable throughout and it really stirred my emotions, especially Dominic Cooper as Hippolytus. But to try to answer the question I started with, the play digresses from the jury’s official agenda. Lizzy Luke – Maxine Peake a new play by Lucy Kirkwood As the country waits for Halley’s comet, Sally Poppy is sentenced to hang for a heinous murder. The use of sound was effective but I think they may have relied on it to get over problems. Now playing He describes in the manner of someone trying accurately to report a catastrophic street accident the moment when a sea-monster triumphs over a doomed charioteer: it's an account in which, as so often in this play, id stamps on ego, the irrational wrestles with and defeats a strong will. Based on Act One Scene One alone, it could have been set at any point before domestic service stopped being commonplace. One life in the hands of 12 women. London’s Lyttelton Theatre, “the set is really, really deep, and they play it deeply,” says Bretnall. Mirren is more than accomplished in her different modes: when she arrives on stage, a woman crushed with a secret and her own duplicity, she looks skeletal, as if she is croaking; she declares her clandestine love as if it were about to burst out of her intestines, one hand on her stomach, the other on her throat; she totters towards death like someone who has been eviscerated. When she speaks, she seems not to be reciting but to be telling the truth. The set was very monumental, but unfortunately the acting wasn't quite up to par. Helen Ludlow – Wendy Kweh Lyttelton Theatre, London Classical tragedy gives way to psychodrama, ... National Theatre performance of Phèdre plays to cinema audiences around the country. There is a way of presenting drama like this- but hell! There are plenty of transportation links near to the theatre. Rural Suffolk, 1759. So they hardly ever put him on. Not so much Medea as Gouda. She has been better known latterly for her celluloid and small-screen ease, that crisp Jane Tennison naturalism, but she's been playing gorgeous, high-ranking monsters since she was a teenager: at 19 she was able to command the stage as Shakespeare's Cleopatra. All rights reserved. Kitty Givens – Dawn Sievewright ... Lyttelton Theatre … It is unconfined; it encourages expansiveness and explicitness. There has got to be a better way!
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