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Dateline:
10th November, 2002
RSC Swan Season for
Gielgud
The Royal Shakespeare Company's recent Swan season is to transfer to
the West End's Gielgud Theatre on 5th December, when previews begin.
Comprising four little known Jacobean plays and Edward III, attributed
to Shakespeare in 1998, the season features a company of 28, among whom
are Antony Sher, David Rintoul, Claire Benedict and Caroline Faber.
The other four plays are Eastward Ho! (Ben Jonson, John Marston,
George Chapman); The Roman Actor (Philip Massinger), starring
Antony Sher; The Island Princess (John Fletcher), directed by
Gregory Doran, and The Malcontent (John Marston), also starring
Antony Sher.
David Rintoul plays the lead in Edward III. The organiser of
the season is Greg Doran.
Street
Star and Connery Jnr. to Tour Blue Room
Coronation Street actress Tracy Shaw and Jason Connery are to
tour in David Hare's The Blue Room from 3rd February next year.
The tour opens at the Arts, Cambridge, on 3rd February, and then goes
on to Richmond, Dartford, Guildford, Lincoln, Cardiff, Eastbourne, Londonderry,
York, Brighton, Milton Keynes, Edinburgh, Wolverhampton, Stoke, Birmingham
and Manchester.
Ifans at the Donmar
Rhys Ifans is to star in the Donmar Warehouse revival of Dario Fo's
Accidental Death of an Anarchist, which runs from 26th February
to 19th April (previews from 25th February). The production will be
directed by Robert Delamere.
Mamma Mia!
to Move
2004 will see the hit Abba musical Mamma Mia! moving from the
Prince Edward Theatre to the by then refurbished Prince of Wales, making
way for the long-awaited arrival of The Producers from Broadway.
Abigail
Closes Hampstead
Last night (Saturday 9th November) Mike Leigh's Abigail's Party
closed at London's Hampstead Theatre and the theatre closed its doors
for the last time. In early 2003 Hampstead's new building, built with
the aid of a £9.86m Lottery grant, will open, just a few yards
away, whilst Leigh's play moves to the New Ambassadors on 3rd December.
Inspector to Call
Nationally
The National Theatre's production of An Inspector Calls, directed by
Stephen Daldry, is to tour to Birmingham, Stoke, Brighton, Milton Keynes,
Glasgow, High Wycombe, Bromley, Richmond, Cardiff, Truro, Ipswich, Aberdeen,
Salford, Bradford, Belfast, Malvern, Nottingham, Bath, Plymouth, Woking,
Norwich and Llandudno. Fuirther venues are expected to be announced
later.
Romeo and Juliet
Musical Opens
Romeo and Juliet - The Musical opened at the Piccadilly earlier
this week to uniformly dreadful notices: "Shambles" (Sheridan
Morley); "Dire" (Nicholas de Jongh); "witless" and
"buttock-clenchingly embarrassing" (Charles Spencer). And
a contributor to the British Theatre Guide Forum said it was "like
watching Springtime for Hitler played straight"!
Bathgate Prizewinners
Announced
400 scripts were entered, but the judges of the Verity Bathgate Award
2002 could pick no clear winner, so the undisclosed prize money will
be split between three promising playwrights: Sean Buckley, Amy Evans
and Joy Wilkinson. The Soho Theatre, which runs the awards (wich are
supported this year by Really Useful Theatres), will present the submitted
plays from the three winners.
West End Improvements
Will Cost £90m
According to a report in "The Stage", modest but essential
improvements to West End theatres, costing just £2,000 a seat,
will total £90m, Stephen Waley-Cohen, president of SOLT (the Society
of London Theatre), has said. he points out that the cost of improvements
to the Royal Court amounted to £50,000a seat and to Birminham
Rep £11,000. The theatre owners, he said, cannot bear such costs
because profits are not in line with what investors require in terms
of a return on their money.
He also points out that the West End is "dirty and intimidating,
and transport is a problem."
Mendes Book to Be Published
This Week
A book about Sam Mendes' time at the Donmar, Sam Mendes at the Donmar
Warehouse – Stepping Into Freedom, is to be published on Tuesday
of this week (12th). Written by Matt Wolf, it includes interviews with
Mendes and Caro Newling, with comments by many of the stars who have
worked at the Donmar in that time.
Rent
Returns
Jonathan Larson's cult musical Rent is to have its third (and
last, say the producers) West End outing from 6th December. It follows
The Full Monty into the Prince of Wales Theatre and is booking
until March 2003.
Mysteries to Tour
The South African version of The Mysteries, performed in Africaans,
English and Zulu, is to tour from 20th January, 2003, visiting Norwich,
Salford, Newcastle, Birmingham, Richmond, Nottingham, London, Plymouth,
Milton Keynes and Bath.
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