Victorian
The Turn of the Screw, Opera NorthMonday, 11 October 2010
To paraphrase a cliché, it’s rare to leave a theatre humming the lighting. But here, Matthew Haskins’ lighting designs help make this production so powerful and evocative, whether projecting grotesque, distorted shadows on the back wall of Madeleine... Read more... |
BBC Two announces The Crimson Petal and the WhiteWednesday, 11 August 2010Keen to boost its credentials as “the home of intelligent and ambitious drama”, BBC Two has announced details of its dramatisation of Michel Faber’s bestselling novel, The Crimson Petal and the White. Adapted into four 60 minute episodes by... Read more... |
Mrs Warren's Profession, Comedy TheatreThursday, 25 March 2010
George Bernard Shaw’s 1894 play was deemed too scandalous for public performance in Britain and was banned by the Lord Chamberlain until 1925, and its New York premiere in 1905 caused such outrage that the cast were arrested. Its offence was that... Read more... |
Lord Arthur's Bed, King's Head TheatreFriday, 05 March 2010
Regular punters at the King’s Head are familiar with cheerily naked gay romps, they are quite a speciality in this much favoured North London haunt, possibly enhanced by the intimate dimensions of the theatre itself. In Martin Lewton's Lord Arthur's... Read more... |
My Job Directing CranfordFriday, 18 December 2009
When Cranford was first shown in 2007 on a Sunday night and then repeated the following weekend, those first two showings got over 10 million people watching each week. You obviously pay attention to that. And because the first series wasn’t a... Read more... |
Darker Shores, Hampstead TheatreTuesday, 08 December 2009
What’s the appeal of the traditional ghost story? Is it the knowledge that while the victims of the tale quake in their boots, you are perfectly safe and grinning like the Cheshire Cat? Or is it because the supernatural gives us a chance to journey... Read more... |
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