Don't bother, they're here
With theatres remaining closed due to the government’s social distancing rules, how do you get your stage fix? It has been a tough year for theatres around the world, not only in the UK.
Some of the top theatres, performers, and directors have moved their performances online. This has made it easier for their followers to catch up on their performances on social media and via streaming services. Continue reading “Top 5 Best Theatres You Can Stream Online”
“The trick is to deliver when it’s hard”
It seems scarcely believable that as well regarded a playwright as Arthur Miller could have unproduced work lying around but director Sean Turner has played a blinder in unearthing his first ever play No Villain from the University of Michigan archive. Written for a playwriting competition there, it languished unpublished until Turner’s well-researched discovery and so now the Old Red Lion have quite the coup on their hands – a bona fide Arthur Miller world premiere.
And befitting the occasion, Turner’s creative team have produced some genuinely transformative work in the intimate space of this pub theatre, Max Dorey’s ingenious design doubling most effectively as a cramped New York apartment and the claustrophobic office of a failing garment company. The switch between the two is elegantly facilitated by Jack Weir’s lighting and both sets conjure living, breathing environments that work brilliantly as an extension of the drama. Continue reading “Review: No Villain, Old Red Lion”