Awaking Beauty
From: Thursday, 11th December 2008
To: Saturday, 17 January 2009
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Our Review:
19 December 2008
For his final production as artistic director of the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Alan Ayckbourn has chosen, typically, to surprise everyone. Awaking Beauty is a bizarre concoction, quite possibly with a limited shelf-life in terms of future stagings, but, in Sir Alan’s terrific production, a triumphant climax to 36 years in charge.
This re-working of the story of the Sleeping Beauty begins with Verity Quade’s beautifully enunciated narration over wittily mimed action; all is as it should be, the Prince and Princess are everything we expect and look perfect in Michael Holt’s so far traditional costumes. Things begin to slide when the wicked sorceress Carabosse falls for the Prince. Future developments, with the love/lust triangle, the move to the city, the confrontation between romance and reality, are anything but predictable. Satire on contemporary life surfaces, then fades into Hollywood-style let’s-be-happy-with-what-we-got romantic realism.
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Alan Ayckbourn (Author)
Denis King (Author)
Stephen Joseph Theatre (Producer)
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