(Description)White ballet, 2 acts. Story by the Grimm brothers. Music and libretto by Zoltan Demme. DANCERS: Birch King, Birch Queen, Birchflower Princess, Baroness Birchtrunk with Baron Birchbark, Birchroot, Birchsprig her sons, and Birchlimb her servant. GROUP DANCERS: Ghillie Dhu spirits, Penguins, Icebirds, Dripstone People. Act 1Scene 1-1-1 (SILVER SCENE) GHILLIES AMONG BIRCH TREES LIBRETTO: Snowy… Continue reading A New White Ballet, titled Ghillie Dhu
Month: May 2023
Hastings returns to Nottingham in Tapped
Nottingham-born Max Hastings is to return to the city where he grew up when he tours in Katie Redford’s Tapped, “a heart-warming comedy that explores the importance of connection, fulfilment and (lack of) hope”. Hastings who plays Gavi said, “Tapped is set in a garage in Nottingham where Gavi has decided to set up a motivational self-help… Continue reading Hastings returns to Nottingham in Tapped
Worcester Rep to perform Earnest outdoors
For the 16th year, Worcester Repertory Company is to take outdoor theatre to the Commandery in the city and in 2023 will stage Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest. Worcester Repertory Company was founded in the 1960s. Its patron is Oscar nominee and BAFTA-winning actress Imelda Staunton. Each year, the company performs a British classic… Continue reading Worcester Rep to perform Earnest outdoors
Dismissed
Given the thousands of knife crimes each year in the UK, it is understandable that pupils are banned from carrying knives in school. If they are caught with a knife, it is confiscated and the student is reported to management. This poses a dilemma for the sociology teacher Ashley (Georgia-Mae Myers) when a knife falls… Continue reading Dismissed
Digital film looks at future of healthcare
Northampton’s Royal and Derngate, site-specific and immersive theatre company Hydrocracker and Deafconnect, a charity in Northamptonshire that supports deaf people of all ages, are to present the première of Who Cares 2032. This interactive digital film about the potential future of healthcare will be available at the Who Cares 2023 web site from Wednesday 31… Continue reading Digital film looks at future of healthcare
Sketches
An atmospherically lit stage awaits its visitors. Slowly and with measured movement, two people arrive, one with a violin, the other without, as they begin their performance with skill, beauty and poise. They trigger the arrival of all others, musicians and dancers together inhabiting, performing and delivering a beautiful physical representation of Bach’s Violin Concerto… Continue reading Sketches
Victoria Wood comedy playwriting prize in Birmingham
On what would have been Victoria Wood’s 70th birthday, Birmingham Rep has announced the creation of “the first major playwriting prize dedicated to the art of comedy”. The Victoria Wood Playwriting Prize for Comedy in partnership with the Victoria Wood Foundation is the brainchild of the Rep’s artistic director Sean Foley, who is renowned for writing and… Continue reading Victoria Wood comedy playwriting prize in Birmingham
The Dumb Waiter and A Slight Ache
Harold Pinter is better known for works including The Homecoming and Betrayal than these much shorter one-act plays penned years earlier. The Dumb Waiter and A Slight Ache may be lesser known, but they are still characteristically Pinter, with their dramatic and provocative narratives exploring themes as relevant today as when they were written in… Continue reading The Dumb Waiter and A Slight Ache
Expecting
Charis McRoberts’s Expecting from c21 Theatre Company at Belfast’s The Mac is a gentle portrait of the pressures of first-time parenthood on a young couple blithely unsuspecting of the profound, often dislocating, effects on a relationship the arrival of a baby can cause. It’s a well-worn dramatic trope that invariably, as here, comes to rely… Continue reading Expecting
Hull Truck says be our guest
Hull Truck Theatre has awarded three bursaries to local artists to take part in a Be Our Guest residency programme. Jim Norris, Anastasiia Manina, Laura Elsworthy and Morgan Sproxton will each spend a week in residence at the theatre developing their work to later share with audiences in the Godber Studio July 14. Hull Truck… Continue reading Hull Truck says be our guest