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Dateline:
31st August, 2003
Stratford Circus Closes
Stratford Circus, the £8m East London performing arts venue next
to the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, has closed after losing its local
authority annual grant of £233,000, according to a report in The
Stage. The venue, which contains four performance spaces and had planned
on offering up to 2,000 events a year, went in voluntary liquidation
after being refused a place on Arts Council England's Recovery programme.
Hare to Write for Luhrmann
David Hare is to write the screenplay for Australian film-maker Baz
Luhrmann's next movie, Alexander the Great, which will star Leonardo
Di Caprio and Nicole Kidman. Hare is currently working on an screen
adaptation of Jonathan Franzen's novel The Corrections, to be
directed by Stephen Daldry.
Dionisotti Directorial
Debut
Actress Paola Dionisotti is to make her debut as a director with the
European premiere of Nilo Cruz' Two Sisters and a Piano. Cruz
is the first Latino playwright ever to win a Pulitzer Prize for drama
and this production will be the first time any of his plays has been
seen in Europe.
The production opens at the Tron, Glasgow, on 4th September and runs
to the 6th, after which it visits Fife, Poole, Bath, the Dublin Fringe
Festival, Downpatrick, Reading, Salisbury, Goring by Sea, Bristol and
Harrow before playing in the Riverside Studio's Cubafest! from
16th to 25th October.
SAC Sets aside £2.3m
for Eden Court
The Scottish Arts Council has set aside a total of £2.3m from
the SAC Lottery fund for the refurbishment of Inverness's Eden Court
theatre and has released £105,000 for a feasibility study to enable
the process to start. The work will add a new studio theatre and two
cinemas to the complex, and refurbish the bars, restaurants and education
unit. The total cost of the refurnishment is expected to be £10m,
of which £8m will come from public funds. The theatre has already
begun an appeal which was launched by HRH Prince Andrew, Earl of Inverness,
in July.
Annis Stars in Blood
at Royal Court
Francesca Annis and Nicholas le Prevost are to star in Swedish writer
Lars Noren's Blood at the Royal Court from 18th September to
25th October.
Cole on Tour
Veteran actress Stephanie Cole is to tour in a new stage adaptation
of Rosamund Pilcher's novel The Shell Seekers. The production
opens on 1st September at the Theatre Royal, Northampton, before going
on to Plymouth, Guildford, Nottingham, Darlington, Norwich, Poole, Richmond,
Cheltenham, Eastbourne and Ipswich. Other dates are expected to be announced
later.
Walter to Lead in Rattigan
Tour
Harriet Walter is to play the lead in a new tour of Terence Rattigan's
The Deep Blue Sea, which opens at the Theatre Royal Bath on 16th September.
Also in the cast are Roger Lloyd Pack, Una Stubbs and Neil Stacy. After
Bath, the play goes on to Richmond, Cambridge, Pool, Woking and Brighton.
Other dates will be announced later.
Barber Will Keep Her
Clothes On
Glynis Barber will not be taking off her clothes for the famous scene
as she tours in The Graduate. She will be the first actress not
to do so.
From Soap to Horror
Coronations Street's Curly Watts - actor Kevin Kennedy - is to
leave the soap in which he has appeared for twenty years on 1st September
and on the 2nd joins the touring cast of The Rocky Horror Show
as the narrator.
Temporary Home for
ENB
English National Ballet, made temporarily homeless by the refurbishment
of the Coliseum, is to have its autumn/winter season at the Carling
Apollo Hammersmith. The season consists of Cinderella (10th to
20th December), followed by the revival of The Nutcracker (24th
December to 11th January).
Cast Changes
- Darren Day will take over as Joseph in Joseph and the Amazing
Technicolor Dreamcoat (New London) from 6th October.
- Lyn Paul plays Mrs Johnstone in Blood Brothers (Phoenix)
from 1st September.
Extending
- The Lion King (Lyceum) extends by six months to 26th September,
2004.
- Noises Off, the RNT production at the Piccadilly, extends
by three weeks to 8th November.
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