It is 75 years since the Chelsea Opera Group was founded by David Cairns, Colin Davis and Stephen Gray, all students at Oxford at the time. Its longevity is brought into focus by considering that it ...
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This staging imagines the play in a gangland pub in 20th-century Glasgow, with its characters as violent criminals. The Stage: Dave Fargnoli: Raggett luxuriates in the play’s violence, while his cast ...
Anyone who saw director Daniel Raggett’s production of Edward II in the Swan Theatre earlier this year will not be surprised to learn that his version of Macbeth is, in a word, horrible. But not ...
Choosing the right opener for a theatrical season is always a fraught gamble. An opening demands ambition and momentum, all while securing trust in the audience that what follows will reward them.
The Royal Shakespeare Company has revealed photos for its production of Macbeth as the show reaches press night. Directed by Daniel Raggett and running at The Other Place in Stratford-upon-Avon, the ...
The Royal Shakespeare Company has released production photos from its modern-dress “Macbeth,” marking Sam Heughan‘s first performance with the company and his return to theater after 10 years focused ...
You get only one chance to make a first impression, and the first sight of Boston Lyric Opera’s recent “Macbeth” was a head-scratcher. The curtain rose to reveal a full stage, the BLO chorus dressed ...
WATERTOWN — Partway through Act One, the Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s production of “Macbeth” departs from the text and goes completely off the rails. The Porter, a minor character played by Dennis ...
“IT was a stupid mistake to make,” said the American woman I had met at my hotel in the English lake country, “but it was on the counter with the other Penguin books—the little sixpenny ones, you know ...
The ENO try to make opera more accessible in various ways, one of which is by nearly always performing in English and ensuring surtitles are projected above the stage. Whilst this does theoretically ...
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