Matthew Bourne, master dance theatre showman, has been successfully reinventing the major classical ballets over the last thirty years. His version of Romeo and Juliet, which premiered in 2019, is a f ...
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Sam Mendes commissioned Jack Thorne to write a play about John Gielgud directing Richard Burton in Hamlet on Broadway in 1964. Thorne took his inspiration from two books by actors who had been in the ...
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London’s West End has a new theatre, the beautiful and intimate Soho Place Theatre in Charing Cross Road, just a minute’s walk from Tottenham Court Road tube station. The theatre seats 600 and its sha ...
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The set is a miniature Greek amphitheatre. The setting doesn’t do the actors any favours. There is no scenery, no costume, only everyday modern clothes. Everybody is dressed in black. I missed the exo ...
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