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Dateline:
16th March, 2002
Climbie Inquiry
on Stage
The inquiry ito the death of eight year old Victoria Climbie,
killed by her great aunt in 2000 after suffering horrendous abuse at
her hands and those of her boyfriend, is to be presented as a play by
The Gutted Film and Theatre Company at the Hackney Empire from 14th
to 26th May.
The play will focus on how the abuse (she had 128 separate injuries
on her body) was allowed to happen, not on the abuse itself. The inquiry
found that the chiold protection systems in place had missed twelve
chances to intervene and save the child's life.
Royal Court Young
Writers' Festival 2002
Details of the Royal Court's annual Young Writers' Festival have been
announced. Writers aged 26 or under are invited to submit entries by
6th May. Full details will be found on the Court's website.
Dench and Smith
Together in the West End
Judi Dench and Maggie Smith are to appear together in a West End play
for the first time ever. From 23rd September they will appear at the
Theatre Royal Haymarket in the premiere of David Hare's The Breath
of Life, which will run for a twelve week season.
Apollo's 684 Seats
Returned
The 684 seats at the Apollo Victoria, which were removed to accommodate
the Starlight Express ramps, are now back in place, increasing
the theatre's capacity to 2208, in time for Bombay Dreams, making
it the third largest West End venue.
New at the Royal
Court
The Royal Court has announced its summer season:
- Michael Wynne's The People Are Friendly runs from the 12th
June to 6th July in the Theatre Downstairs (previews from 7th)
- Kosher Harry by Nick Grosso (Theatre Upstairs) from 23rd
April to 11th May (previews from 18th April)
- Where Do We Live? by Christopher Shinn (Theatre Upstairs)
from 21st May to 8th June (previews from 17th May)
- Mother Teresa is Dead by Helen Edmundson (Theatre Upstairs) from
25th June to 13th July (previews from 20th June)
SAG Awards for McKellen
and Mirren
Ian McKellen and Helen Mirren have won Best Supporting Actor and Actress
in the Screen Actors Guild Awards, announced this week, for Lord
of the Rings and Gosford Park respectively. Ben Kingsley
won Best Actor in a TV Drama or Mini-series for Anne Frank and Gosford
Park won Best Ensemble Film Cast.
Stage 2 at MAC
Birmingham's Midlands Arts Centre (MAC) is playing host to two productions
by acclaimed youth theatre Stage 2 in the coming weeks. Lee Hall's Spoonface
Steinberg runs from the 26th to the 30th March. It uses both film
and theatre, as well as a cast of 60, and Tom and Viv, Michael Hasting's
play about T.S. Eliot, runs from 3rd to 6th April.
Postlethwaite to Tour
One-Man Show
Actor Pete Postlethwaite brings the UK premiere of his one-man show
Scaramouche Jones to the Bristol Old Vic on 3rd April, after which it
will tour to Oxford, Belfast, Leeds, Liverpool, Cambridge, Guildford
and Northampton. He originally performed the show at the 2001 Dublin
Theatre Festival and played to packed houses.
The Barbican Is 20
The Barbican Centre celebrates its twentieth birthday this month. Described
by the Queen as "one of the wonders of the modern world" when
she opened it in 1982, it became the London home of the Royal Shakespeare
company. Now the RSC is leaving and the Centre is planning to extend
its BITE (Barbican International Theatre Event) into a year-long event,
nstead of using it as a filler for when the RSC is not in residence.
New Monologues
Cast
The new cast of The Vagina Monologues (New Ambassadors), which
takes over on 25th March, will consist of former Big Breakfast
presenter and TV actress Donna Air, supermodel Naomi Campbell and Jackie
Clune.
Broadsides' Macbeth
Tour
Northern Broadsides is to tour Macbeth this spring: starting
in Halifax on 23rd March, it will then tour to Wellingborough, Skipton,
Scarborough, Leeds, Salford, Bury St Edmunds, Liverpool, Bradford and
Stoke.
Rumours
It is rumoured that Susan Stroman's dance show, Contact, may
be heading for the West End later this year, and that The Producers
will be coming to London in 2003.
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