Ben Hur
From: Friday, 22nd June 2012
To: Saturday, 28 July 2012
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Synopsis
They said it was... unstageable. They said it was... unachievable. They said it was... impossible in today's financial climate. But we're doing it anyway! From the Olivier and Tony award-winning adaptor and producers of The West End, Broadway and Global sensation The 39 Steps The Watermill is overawed to present an unbelievably spectacular and never-before seen stage version of the novel by General ?Lew' Wallace. Almost certainly the greatest book ever penned... Experts say no book has ever been so widely read... In true theatrical, live 3-D with genuine smellorama! Performed on stage for the first time ever with
Our Review:
4 July 2012
The movie gave employment to 50,000 extras not to mention 78 horses. The Compagnie d'Alexander Berkin consists of just four Protean performers. There's recent Dudley Tech. dance graduate Sally Wiggins, that stalwart actor Gavin Seed and leading the company eponymous actor/manager Alexander Berkin. I mentioned four performers. Gallant stagehand Ted Fletcher standing in for a sick thespian goes on as an unknown ... and you can guess the rest.
Actually not one but four stars are born here, and that's without mentioning the entire audience and useful 'extra' dummies. Berkin himself is a revelation in the Charlton Heston role of Judah Ben-Hur - literally as he reveals a muscled athletic physique beneath his tunic, though word is that this is down to his lookalike, actor John Hopkins. His epic nobility carries him through ordeals culminating in the graphic horror of serving as a galley slave and dealing with some distinctly dodgy sound cues - and through it all...
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Chris Mercer - 6 July 2012:
As said in the above review I thought it was the funniest thing on stage I have seen for a long time. Incredible performances from all the actors, a very talented bunch. A totallly delightful surprise for a production I wasn't sure I would enjoy but now on my list of all time greats. ...
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Watermill Theatre (in association with Fiery Angel) (Producer)
Patrick Barlow (Adaptation)
Sean Foley (Director)
Patrick Barlow (Director)
Paul Wills (Design)
Nick Richings (Lighting)
Ben Ringham (Sound)
Max Ringham (Sound)
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