Scottish Ballet return to Newcastle
January 25, 2008
Scottish Ballet is returning to Theatre Royal Newcastle with its brand new production, The Sleeping Beauty, from Wednesday 20 – Saturday 23 February 2008.
The company was recently awarded a top award in Britain’s dance Oscars. Scottish Ballet was crowned Critics’ Circle National Dance Award Company Prize for Outstanding Repertoire (Classical) fending off competition from both The Royal Ballet and Bolshoi Ballet companies.
Conceived by Artistic Director Ashley Page and designer Antony McDonald, the creative team behind Scottish Ballet’s hugely successful productions of The Nutcracker (2003) and Cinderella (2005), The Sleeping Beauty is the third of a trilogy of ballets with a fairytale theme, re-imagined with fresh relevance for a contemporary audience, and is presented with the surprising twists, devilish wit and stunning visuals synonymous with their creative partnership. Read more
SLEUTH! Look who is playing Darlington
January 23, 2008
SLEUTH by Anthony Shaffer is viewed as one of the greatest ever stage thrillers, which ran for a total of 12 years in London and New York, winning the Tony Award for Best Play and inspiring the hugely successful film starring Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine, which has recently been remade starring again Michael Caine. But SLEUTH makes its much anticipated return to the stage this year with the tour stooping at Darlington Civic Theatre from Monday 18 to Saturday 23 February.
Simon MacCorkindale, best known for his role as consultant Harry Harper in the BBC’s Casualty, the well-known hit TV series Falcon Crest and Manimal, and his roles in several major films, including Riddle of the Sands, and Michael Praed, veteran of the television classics Robin of Sherwood and Dynasty, star in this audacious revival of Anthony Shaffer’s masterpiece in which a young man arrives at the impressive home of a famous mystery writer, only to be unwittingly drawn into a tangled web of intrigue and gamesmanship, where nothing is quite what it seems… Read more
Legal Fictions
January 22, 2008
Legal Fictions is written by Rumpole of the Bailey author John Mortimer ( who himself brought his own show to the Theatre Royal not too long ago). He used to be a practising barrister before becoming a novelist and playwright, so his stories involving barristers, judges and the British legal system are always witty and a delight to watch.
Edward Fox (still remembered for TVs Edward and Mrs Simpson and the film Day of the Jackal) tackles two very different roles in Legal Fictions. In the two handed play, Dock Brief, we have him as the barrister Morgenhall trying to save Fowle (played by Nicholas Woodeson) from being found guilty of murdering his wife. Unfortunately Morgenhall is an incompetent barrister and despite rehearsing his client with a great defence allows everything to go terribly wrong in court. Read more
Panto breaks Theatre Royal record
January 21, 2008
The Theatre Royal, Newcastle, is celebrating its most successful pantomime season to date with audience figures reaching 77,000 and Box Office income hitting a staggering £1,111,621. The Qdos Entertainment production of Aladdin, which starred Clive Webb, Danny Adams and former Steps star Faye Tozer, has become the highest grossing pantomime in the Theatre Royal’s history.
Philip Bernays, Chief Executive of the Theatre Royal told Whatsonstage: “Audience feedback for Aladdin has been phenomenal and performances remained sold out right up to the final show on Saturday 19 January. We’d like to thank all the cast, creative team and everyone involved in Aladdin for giving us what is considered by many to be the best pantomime in the country. We added an extra week of Aladdin performances to cope with demand and we’ve done the same for our 2008/09 pantomime which has already sold 30,000 seats.” Read more
Plum show to start the year
January 21, 2008
THE NUTCRACKER arrives in Sunderland this week. It is a rare chance to catch the breathtakingly spectacular famous 1966 Moscow production of the ballet. Directed by one of Moscow’s finest, Yuri Grigorovich, of the world-famous Bolshoi Ballet for 30 years and with a large, live orchestra, together with the outstanding Kristina Terentieva - winner of the Grand Prix International Dance Competition, Vienna 2007.
Grigorovich’s NUTCRACKER from Ellen Kent & Ballet International is a classic Christmas story of a girl swept away to a magical dream world and is brought to life with Tchaikovsky’s memorable music – Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, Waltz of the Flowers, Russian Dance and Decoration of the Christmas Tree March. The production promises to an amazing evening with stunning scenery designed by Simon Virsaladze, best known for designing the films Hamlet (1964) and King Lear (1971), and directed by Grigori Kozintsev, with flying boats, special effects and astonishing wizardry. Read more
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