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Dateline:
8th December, 2002
Hall Takes Rep to Bath
Sir Peter Hall is revive his repertory company in Bath this summer,
presenting four plays at the city's Theatre Royal. The season will open
on 23rd June and close on 30th August, during which time the company
will perform Betrayal (Pinter), Design for Living (Coward),
The Fight for Barbara (D.H. Lawrence) and Shakespeare's As
You Like It. This will be Hall's first ever production of As
You Like It and it will star his daughter Rebecca Hall as Rosalind.
The Lawrence will be directed by Thea Sharrock.
Hytner Chooses Springer
Nicholas Hytner's first production as the National Theatre's artistic
director will be Jerry Springer: the Opera, the big hit of this
year's Edinburgh Fringe. It will be presented in the Lyttelton in April.
The director of the Edinburgh production, Stewart Lee, and designer
Julian Crouch will be part of the creative team. This will be the first
new opera to be produced by the National.
Hytner himself, however, is no stranger to the genre, for he
began his career directing opera. he commented, “I’ve followed
the development of Jerry Springer – The Opera since I saw
it in a workshop production eighteen months ago at Battersea Arts Centre.
It’s exactly the kind of work the National should be doing: bold,
scabrous, funny and beautiful. I’m delighted to be working with
Richard Thomas and Stewart Lee on their groundbreaking new opera.”
Fringe First Winner
for the Bush
One of this year's Fringe First winners in Edinburgh, The Drowned
World, is to open the new year season at London's Bush Theatre.
Written by Welshman Gary Owen, the play is produced by Paine's Plough
and will run from 14th January to 15th February.
ROH to Present Children's
Classic
The Royal Opera House is to present the children's classic The Wind
in the Willows in a danced version in its LiInbury Studio. With a narration
written by Andrew Motion, the Poet Laureate, and spoken by Anthony Dowell,
the copany will be led by Adam Cooper and Will Kemp.
Fame Academy
Reject to Star at Leicester
One of the would-be popstars taking part in the BBC's Fame Academy
series, who was ejected from the programme after four weeks, Camilla
Beeput, is to star as Maria in the Leicester Haymarket's production
of West Side Story, which opens on 20th December.
Hall Macbeth
Extends
Edward Hall's production of Macbeth at the Albery, which stars
Sean Bean and Samantha Bond, has extended its run by four weeks to 1st
March, 2003.
BAFTA Fellowship for
Mills
Sir John Mills has been awarded a fellowship of the British Academy
of Film and Television Arts for his contribution to cinema. This is
the highest award that BAFTA can give.
The 94 year old Sir John appeared in his first film in the thirties,
but actually began his showbusiness career in 1929 as a chorus boy at
the London Hippodrome. he has made over a hundred films, won an Oscar
(1971) and was knighted in 1976.
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