Jacobi & Donohoe Headline New Crucible SeasonDate: 24 June 2002
Michael Grandage has announced details for Sheffield Crucible's 2002/2003 season, featuring Derek Jacobi, Daniel Evans and Amanda Donohoe. Grandage, who will take over from Sam Mendes as artistic director of London's Donmar Warehouse, has said that, despite the appointment, he will also continue as associate director of the South Yorkshire-based theatre.
Grandage himself will direct the new Sheffield season's first offering, a production of Shakespeare's The Tempest, running from 25 September to 19 October 2002, in which Jacobi (pictured) will play Prospero to Evans' Ariel. The production also reunites the rest of the creative team - Christopher Oram (design), Tim Mitchell (lighting) and Julian Phillips (musical compositions) - behind this year's Kenneth Branagh-headed Richard III and last year's Edward II, starring Joseph Fiennes.
Jacobi is well-known to both television and film audiences for work including, on the small screen, I Claudius, Cadfael, The Wyvern Mystery, Randall and Hopkirk and Frasier; and, on the large screen, The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File, Dead Again, Father Damien and Gladiator. He is also a veteran stage actor, with long seasons at both the RSC and the National to his credit, as well as, more recently, roles in major productions such as The Hollow Crown, The Suicide, Kean, Becket, Uncle Vanya, Breaking the Code and God Only Knows.
Last year, Daniel Evans won both the Whatsonstage.com Award and the Olivier for Best Actor in a Musical for his role in Grandage's production of Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along at the Donmar Warehouse. His many other stage credits include Where Do We Live, Candide, Other People, Peter Pan and The Merchant of Venice.
The Tempest is followed by a revival of 1975 play David Hare's Teeth 'n' Smiles, starring Amanda Donohoe as Maggie, who's off her beautiful face at a rock 'n' roll gig in 1969. Directed by Anna Mackmin, Teeth 'n' Smiles runs from 30 October to 23 November 2002. Timothy Sheader will then make his Sheffield directorial debut with a Christmas season (from 12 December 2002 to 25 January 2003) of musical classic Sweet Charity (book by Neil Simon, music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by Dorothy Fields), about loveless New York dance hostess Charity Hope Valentine.
The new year will see new productions of: Shakespeare's Macbeth, directed by James Phillips (29 January to 22 February 2003); Euripides' Iphigenia in a new version by Edna O'Brien, directed by Anna Mackmin (5 February to 1 March 2003); and Philip Pulman's children's play, The Firework-Maker's Daughter (12 March to 5 April 2003). The programme is rounded off with a month-long season of four new plays (to be announced), running from 21 May to 21 June 2003.
- by Terri Paddock
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