#stratford-upon-avon theatre review

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#Podcasts THE ADAM BUXTON PODCAST EP.203 - TASH DEMETRIOU

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Facing the Music

BEN & IMO The Swan Theatre, Stratford upon Avon, Tuesday 2nd April 2024 Mark Ravenhill’s new play couldn’t be further from his first one (Sh*pping and Fucking), dealing with a rather rarefied moment in British musical history.  Composer Benjamin Britten has just nine months to come up with a grand opera in time for the coronation of Elizabeth II.  Along comes Imogen, daughter of Gustav ‘The…

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Me, an hour ago: since I've seen the show twice and I want to keep a memory of it, I'll write down a short review for Ben and Imo.

Me, now: the review is three pages long and still needs to be uploaded on Canva, along with images. It's gonna be a hell of a post that no one will probably ever read. I'm doing this for myself and myself only.

[thealogie]

I just saw smth on reddit, if you're still interested in Tennant's Romeo. Apparently it's pretty much crap lol. Not his performance, but the production as a whole was panned. Someone on reddit wrote this: "As my research focus for my developing podcast is David's theatre work (I concentrate on his early Scottish theatre but certainly pay attention to all of it!) I've seen the play. It's...quite passable, for sure, and he's good enough as Romeo, but it doesn't have the punch of most of his other Shakespearean roles both before and after it (he got rave reviews in 1996 as Touchstone in As You Like It, and raves afterwards as Hamlet, Richard II and Benedick, of course). But the production of Romeo and Juliet suffered in a lot of ways independent of David's performance. The staging was very odd and sparse, and the director gave the play an angrier tone which didn't sit well with critics. To read an example of the general consensus of critics, here's what one critic - who gave the play the lowest rating of "adequate" - said about it: i.imgur.com/yS4Coqv.jpg"

Fascinating but I still want to see it. Let’s see if I get my ass to Stratford upon Avon for this. Also this person creating a DT theatre podcast is doing important tumblrina work

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REVIEW: THE TEMPEST: Alex Kingston is a magnificent Prospero

Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon

If there were prizes for inventive recycling of props, this RSC staging would get the soup-tin statuette. Oil drums are rolled to illustrate anecdotes, drunkards quaff from petrol cans and Ariel’s flute is twisted together from plumbing pipes. With references to “the quality of the climate” and “mutinous winds”, The Tempest sustains director Elizabeth Freestone’s contemporary interpretation with little strain, helped by the opening storm being made by man. Or, in this version, woman. Alex Kingston’s Prospero, though still an exiled “duke” of Milan, is mother to a daughter. This affects the text, neutralising Shakespeare’s “farther” puns and forcing recounts in Miranda’s lines about how many men she saw before Sebastian, while Prospero’s rather creepy concern with the security of Miranda’s hymen feels unlikely from a bohemian modern mother. Gender-stubbornness about Shakespearean roles would have robbed us of great Lears from Glenda Jackson and Kathryn Hunter, and also of Kingston’s magnificent, revelatory Prospero. “Our revels now are ended” and “this rough magic I here abjure”, the soliloquies disavowing super-powers, are often played as elegiac farewells, but from Kingston feel closer to Christ at Gethsemane, a war between two natures. This Prospero rages against the dying of her might. Heledd Gwynn’s Ariel, hair and makeup channelling Aladdin Sane, is alternately punchy, touching and tuneful until a spectacularly athletic exit. A very modern staging that is fundamentally true to the text and the RSC’s intellectual, rigorous, clear-speaking traditions. At the Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, until 4 March.

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Mathew Baynton as Bottom and Sirine Saba as Titania in the RSCs new adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

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Love's Labour's Lost - RSC 2024 review

Link to my review of LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST, currently at The Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. This is directed by Emily Burns and has Luke Thompson as Berowne. It’s the first RSC production under the new artistic directors, Daniel Evans and Tamara Harvey and it’s a formidable start. The play is set in a Pacific island resort, with the four men as tech billionaires rather than…

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Joseph Mawle

Joseph Mawle Movies and TV Shows, Wiki, Biography, Wife, Height, Age and Net Worth

Joseph Mawle is a well-known English actor who has appeared in both film and television. This article will go into the interesting world of Joseph Mawle, from early years through his incredible career and personal life.Joseph Mawle Wiki / Biography

Joseph Mawle was born on 21st March 1974 in Oxford, England. He is most known for his performances in the tv series Game of Thrones as Benjen Stark, the film Ripper Street as Detective Inspector Jedediah Shine, the film Birdsong as Firebrace, the film The Passion as Jesus Christ, the film The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power as Adar, and the film Troy: Fall of a City as Odysseus.

Early Life

His upbringing was distinctive because he was raised on a farm just outside Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire, in a Victorian manor house. He comes from a Warwickshire family with a long history of farming spanning nine generations. His father, Richard, is still a farmer, and his mother was a teacher.

Joseph went to the Croft prep school on the outskirts of Stratford-upon-Avon when he was younger. His severe dyslexia was discovered during his school years and from the time he was 13 to the time he was 16, he attended a boarding school for students with exceptional needs. His journey to becoming an actor officially began with this encounter.

However, Joseph Mawle’s fate was different. He had labyrinthitis at the age of 16, which left him with a persistent tinnitus and a 70% hearing loss in the upper register. Despite these obstacles, Joseph was serious about pursuing his dream of performing.

He convinced the director of the neighborhood college in Stratford-upon-Avon to grant him permission to pursue a BTEC in performing arts while holding down a number of jobs, including those of a fitness trainer and dishwasher.

Joseph began acting around this time, appearing in shows with the Box Clever Theatre Company and mounting his own version of “Solo Hamlet.” He eventually received a scholarship to attend the esteemed Bristol Old Vic Theatre School as a result of his perseverance.

Career Beginnings

In 2002, Joseph Mawle received his diploma from the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He made an appearance in Guinness tv commercials that same year. Joseph started his acting career despite not having an agent when he graduated from theatre school and worked as an assistant in a special needs school.

His breakthrough came in 2003 when he took on the role of Troilus in a Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory production of “Troilus and Cressida“. His performances in other plays, such as “Hamlet” at the Nuffield Theatre in Southampton and “Antony and Cleopatra” at the Royal Exchange in Manchester in 2005, further enhanced his reputation.

But it was his performance in the 2006 television movie “Soundproof” that made him famous. The lead actor in this movie had to be deaf, and Joseph’s performance received favorable reviews. He was nominated for the RTS Breakthrough on Screen Award.

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Rachel Weisz on the TV adaptation of David Cronenberg's Dead Ringers | BFI Q&A #DeadRingers #RachelWeisz #BFI

https://stratford-upon-avon-theatre.blogspot.com/2023/04/rachel-weisz-on-tv-adaptation-of-david.html

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#Podcasts THE ADAM BUXTON PODCAST EP.197 - PADDY CONSIDINE

https://stratford-upon-avon-theatre.blogspot.com/2022/12/podcasts-adam-buxton-podcast-ep197.html

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#GoodOmens It's the Good Omens zoom call with Michael Sheen. Michael Sheen zooms a Good Omens panel to talk about Season 2. David Tennant and Jon Hamm might possibly also be calling in with things to say...

https://stratford-upon-avon-theatre.blogspot.com/2022/10/goodomens-its-good-omens-zoom-call-with.html

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#RSC #richardiii Richard III | Meet the company

https://stratford-upon-avon-theatre.blogspot.com/2022/07/rsc-richardiii-richard-iii-meet-company.html

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#Podcasts THE ADAM BUXTON PODCAST: EP.183 - TASH DEMETRIOU

https://stratford-upon-avon-theatre.blogspot.com/2022/07/podcasts-adam-buxton-podcast-ep183-tash.html

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#Podcasts THE ADAM BUXTON PODCAST: EP.182 - JOHN HIGGS

https://stratford-upon-avon-theatre.blogspot.com/2022/06/podcasts-adam-buxton-podcast-ep182-john.html

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#Film Mark Kermode reviews The Damned Don't Cry (2022) | BFI Player

#Film Mark Kermode reviews The Damned Don't Cry (2022) | BFI Player

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#Film Mark Kermode reviews Inland (2022) | BFI Player

#Film Mark Kermode reviews Inland (2022) | BFI Player