Catherine Bennett resumes the weekly look at the performing arts world, with the sad end of Jerusalem, the luck of a cabbie, and French revolt. Do you hear the people sing?
Adam Alcock reviews Nigel Kennedy playing Vivaldi's Four Seasons and his own Four Elements at York Opera House.
Catherine Bennett highlights the trends in the performing arts world today.
Jonathan Cridford reviews 'Ghosts', one of the Freshers' plays for this year.
On Monday, BBC Radio 4 did a documentary about Al Pacino and the journey of his obsession with Oscar Wilde – a journey that began, somewhat hilariously, with Pacino going to a London production of Salomé and not being aware who the playwright was. He is quoted as saying, ‘All during the play I wanted to know who the writer was because I felt connected in a way to something that I hadn't been connected to in a long time of going to the theatre’. Am I the only one who thinks this is an embarrassing admission on Pacino’s part?
This Thursday, get yourself to Newcastle to see a performance take place on the Morden Tower, a turret on the west walls dating from the 13th century. Ludo Mich, an avant-garde performer famous for his energetic, experimental, bacchanalian productions, will be performing alongside other artists. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see the man behind the legendary ‘pansexual aktionist emetic’ films from the 60s and 70s.
Pilot Theatre’s lauded production of Blackbird has left York Theatre Royal and is now touring. See The Yorker’s review here.
A leading Moscow dance company is losing its leading partnership of prima ballerina Natalia Osipova and principal dancer Ivan Vasiliev to St Petersburg's Mikhailovsky theatre, newly headed by Spanish creative director Nacho Duato. The Bolshoi theatre is left feeling a bit out of the loop as they lose their most talented pair to a company that will undoubtedly offer more performance opportunities to the dancers. A Bolshoi spokesperson said, "Both dancers are this theatre's darlings, they became world-class dancers here, and we'd hoped they would have stayed with us for longer."
Spider Man star and Oscar-nominee James Franco has been engaging in some paranormal activities. The star, together with his collaborator Laurel Nakadate, used an Ouija board to try and contact the playwright Tennessee Williams, who died in 1983, in order to pass on his instructions to a live audience. Williams was the author of major plays such as A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie and Suddenly, Last Summer, the latter of which is going to be performed in the Drama Barn later this term in Week 7. Franco explained, "What interests me is making a play between living and dead, art world and artist, barrier-breaking." Yeah, alright, Ghostbuster. What’s next, Scientology?
Kneehigh’s The Wild Bride is on at West Yorkshire Playhouse until the 19th. Try and catch this incredible theatre company’s work.
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