“Kids love it” – his brother’s kids, specifically, loved the Disney movie – “so I had that affinity. I got stuck with the story, and there was little I could change, but, as the strike happened during the time of the women’s struggle to vote, I began thinking about my own recent turn of the century.”
Category: theatre
You Had A Better Chance Of Seeing The UK’s National Theatre In Detroit Than In Non-London Great Britain
“It is crucial that the NT, with its £17.5m of annual public investment, is seen to be reaching all theatregoers in the UK, not merely those who live within easy reach of London’s South Bank. That means the NT needs to make available much larger parts of its repertoire to theatre lovers in all parts of the country.”
Can An Overtly Religious Musical Make It On Broadway?
“With its graphic depiction of the slave trade (black actors play characters suffering under the branding iron) as well as overt religious content (God rescues Newton’s soul), ‘Amazing Grace’ would be unlike any other recent Broadway production.”
Seattle Is A Deathtrap For Nonprofit Theatre. Unless It’s Not.
“Even when well-managed, even when actors are (regretfully) poorly paid and costumes bought at Value Village , survival is precarious. You could try charging Broadway ticket prices (as high as $185). But that ain’t feasible in Seattle, and it ain’t right either.”
How Did A Dutch-Belgian Director Start To Rule New York Theatre?
“I admire Ivo’s work because it is epic, it’s messy, it exists within a sprawling landscape, both physically and psychologically, and he always puts his actors and their biggest acting chops at the core of his work.”
What It Takes To Make A New Musical In 2014
“I realized that I had talked Matt into something insane and that we just couldn’t do this on our own. That it’s so much bigger than a play. That’s the main thing I have learned working on musicals. With a play you can invite your friends over to your house to hear it and make a pizza, but with a musical that is just not possible.”
Stop Waiting For Someone Else To Do It, And DIY Theatre
“DIY is making a show in a bar when theatres refuse to programme your work or starting your own artist-led space to provide opportunities for yourself, but also crucially for others.”
What It’s Like To Be Naked Onstage
“Theater is about effective illusion. There are hundreds of ways of staging the application of a condom without being pornographic — heck, the whole scene could take place in pitch dark — but a lot of those solutions will vaguely disappoint the audience, who will conclude we couldn’t figure out how to fake it cleverly, or we didn’t have the courage to go further with it.”
Tom Stoppard’s Surprisingly Relaxed Method
“Known for creating clever wordplay and intricate plots that often span decades, Tom Stoppard is surprisingly carefree about his playwriting process. ‘You just start somewhere and it turns out to be what it is.'”
Why Are Scary Clowns Stalking Around Britain and France?
“From city to city, people dressed up like circus escapees have been roaming the streets, getting into mischief, and generally scaring the bejeesus out of passers-by. Apart from young children and acute coulrophobics, the spooky-clown epidemic has been taken more or less in a spirit of fun. Until last week, that is.”