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Dateline:
5th January, 2003
RSC London Season a Financial Flop
It was confirmed this week that the current Royal Shakespeare Company
London seasonof Jacobean plays is proving to be a financial disaster,
with the box office only bringing in 20% of the cash needed to break
even. Bill Kenwright (who, with Thelma Holt, is producing the season)
admitted that the box office is only taking £20,000 a week, whereas
£100,000 a week is the break-even point. The RSC will not lose
financially, as the costs are being borne by the producers.
This comes on top of the revelation that the Roundhouse season earlier
last year lost £500,000.
York Brings Shakespeare's
Women to London
Almost a year and a half after her sell-out success at Edinburgh's Assembly
Rooms during the 2001 Fringe, Susannah York is to bring her one-woman
show The Loves of Shakespeare's Women to London. The show will
run at the Jermyn Street Theatre from 22nd January to 2nd February (previewing
on 21st January).
Adam Faith in National
Tour
Former pop star turned actor Adam Faith is to tour in Love and Marriage
(Donald Churchill), a Bath Theatre Royal production. This will be the
former pop star's return to the stage after a seven year absence. The
show opens at Bromley's Churchill Theatre on 21st January, after which
it goes on to Richmond, Bath, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Stratford, Stoke-on-Trent,
Brighton, Guildford, Darlington and Malvern.
Actress Joanne Campbell
Dies
Actress Joanne Campbell, the first ever black pricipal boy in a pantomime,
has died, aged 38. She began her career in the eighties at the Theatre
Royal Stratford East (where she played principal boy) and was a foudner
member of the BiBi Crew, the first company made up entirely of black
actresses. Her latest work for television, UGetMe (a series,
aimed at teenagers, about an internet radio station) airs for the first
time on BBC2 on Monday morning (6th January) at 8.35. She died of deep-vein
thrombosis.
London Outings for
More Edinburgh Successes
Tiny Dynamite are to bring Adrian Berry's Jack Pleasure, which
premiered at C Venue at the 2002 Edinburgh Fringe to London. It will
play at the Union Theatre in Union Street (SE1) from 28th January to
15th February.
From 8th January to 1st February the Riot Group bring their Fringe
First winning show, Victory at the Dirt Palace, one of the major
success stories of the Fringe, to the Riverside Studios.
First Board Members
of Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru Announced
The Arts Council of Wales has announced the first seven members of the
board of the New Welsh language national theatre, Theatr Genedlaethol
Cymru. They are:
- Gareth Miles from Pontypridd, playwright;
- Carys Tudor Williams from Wrexham, specialist in drama education
and Chair of the Drama Committee of the National Eisteddfod;
- Peter Davies from Cardiff, Head of Drama at Rhydfelin;
- Linda Brown from Bethesda, administrator of Cwmni Theatr Bara Caws;
- Garry Nicholas from Llanelli, deputy head of Ysgol Gyfun y Strade;
- Gwyneth Glyn Evans from Pwllheli, playwright;
- Wynford Ellis Owen from Cardiff, actor and writer.
ACW are still looking to appoint up to a further five Board Members,
and would be particularly pleased to hear from interested individuals
who can demonstrate expertise in the areas of legal skills, business,
and marketing.
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