Stars Flock to Royal Court Readings???
Date: 26 January 2006
It’s difficult keeping up with the number of stars flocking to Sloane Square to take part in the ten-week season of rehearsed readings as part of the Royal Court’s year-long 50th anniversary celebrations.
50 Readings, 50 Writers, 50 Years features some of the most famous plays from the theatre’s history. It kicked off in mid-January with
John Osborne’s 1957 classic
The Entertainer, in which
Robert Lindsay (directed by David Hare, no less) played Archie Rice, the role originated on stage and screen by Laurence Olivier. Next week sees
Julie Walters in Joe Orton’s 1967 double bill of
The Ruffian on the Stair and
The Erpingham Camp on Monday (30 January 2006),
Matthew Macfadyen and
Ben Whishaw in 1968’s
Total Eclipse by Christopher Hampton on Tuesday (31 January) and
Neil Morrissey in David Storey’s 1969 play
In Celebration on Thursday (2 February). The readings, held in the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, continue until 24 March 2005, when the season concludes with Conor McPherson’s 2004 drama Shining City.
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