Lovesong
From: Friday, 30th September 2011
To: Saturday, 15 October 2011
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Synopsis
Exploring love and memory, the play is inspired by the T. S. Elliot poem The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock. A haunting and beautiful tale of togetherness that intertwines a couple in their twenties with the same man and woman a lifetime later.
Our Review:
Karen Bussell - 3 October 2011
Frantic Assembly takes its usual dynamic pace down a beat with the beautifully haunting Lovesong which opens its UK tour in Plymouth.
In collaboration with The Drum Theatre Plymouth and Chichester Festival Theatre, the award-winning company mesmerises with its trademark combination of physicality and music, style and story.
Lovesong is the gentle tale of a couple at the outset of their marriage and at the end blending past and present with fleeting memory and with elusive glimpses of their younger selves. Bordering on the whimsical at times but managing to avoid cloying conceit, BAFTA winner Abi Morgan’s play is bittersweet and good supply of tissues may be needed.
Scott Graham and Steven Hoggett direct tightly to ensure the pace keeps the stage a maudlin-free zone, and their trademark choreography is superb.
At times almost erotic, the balletic movement develops the relationships between the couples, and be...
Cast
Sian Phillips (Maggie)
Sam Cox (Billy)
Leanne Rowe (Margaret)
Edward Bennett (William)
Creative
Abi Morgan (Author)
Kenwood (Chichester) (Corporate Sponsor)
Frantic Assembly (Producer)
Drum Theatre Plymouth (in association with Chichester Festival Theatre) (Producer)
Scott Graham (Director)
Steven Hoggett (Director)
Scott Graham (Choreographer)
Steven Hoggett (and company) (Choreographer)
Merle Hensel (Design)
Andy Purves (Lighting)
Carolyn Downing (Sound)
Ian William Galloway (video) (Design)
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