Rosebud - The Lives of Orson Welles
From: Tuesday, 20th December 2005
To: Saturday, 21 January 2006
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Synopsis
Mark Jenkins' play about historic American film director, writer and actor Orson Welles. Jenkin's play Playing Burton has been performed all over the world. Similarly promising a script of depth and humour and a virtuoso performance from its lead actor, Rosebud promises an appropriately dramatic treatment for a figure of epic stature.
Our Review:
29 December 2005
Though the one-man show is one of my most dreaded of all theatrical genres, Rosebud definitely and delicately reaches the parts of the man it celebrates more than most. Subtitled “the lives of Orson Welles”, it is far more than a mere biographical trawl through the early and notable triumphs of youth and the disappointments and decline of old age, though both are inevitably detailed.
Rather, this play strives to get to the heart as well as the art of a man who created Citizen Kane, one of the defining cultural documents of our time that is routinely labelled the greatest film ever made; but though it was the early making of him, it was also, chillingly, the unmaking of him, partly because of the powerful enemies he made with it – notably the newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst -- but also because of the weight of its success freighted the rest of his career.
He was signed to an unprecedented four-picture deal when he arrived in Hollywood,...
Cast
Creative
Mark Jenkins (Author)
Andy Jordan Productions (Producer)
Steven Berkoff (Producer)
Rosebud Productions (in association with Mogo) (Producer)
Josh Richards (Director)
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