Looks like people are most eagerly anticipating SCORCHED, upstairs at the Belvoir St Theatre. So here are some details...
Written by Wajdi Mouawad, translated by Linda Gaboriau
Director: Neil Armfield
Cast: Paula Arundell, Carl Dewhurst, Adam Hatz, Gillian Jones, Brian Lipson, Ashley Lyons, Lucia Mastrantone, Zindzi Okenyo, Hazem Shammas, George Spartels and Yael Stone
Season runs 19 July - 7 September.
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1 comment:
Couldn't find the link to comment on "Spring Awakening" - so I'm posting here.
I agree with some of your comments about the production. [Why the green floor in part 2? Is that 'Spring' awakening in a lurid mess?]I think there are things that are left out of this production that are wonderful in the full text - I was especially sad to not see the love scene between Henschien and Ernst which comes across as the one bright moment of uninhibited love in the whole sordid world. [The kiss they replace the scene with was a wonderful sequence.]
If unfamiliar with the play I don't think the production would have been entirely clear - the tranformations into teachers and parents were not clear to my companions on the night, and given the child dominated world that was presented perhaps they were a little out of place in a production that seemed to me to be trying to present the world through the eyes of youth.
But even with these thoughts I found it an energetic and invigorating show with many strong and affecting visuals.
The ideas that it sought to highlight were effectively brought to life - it wasn't the whole play. But I felt that parts it took were powerfully and inventively presented.
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