The Beggar’s Opera (Vanishing Point) @ The Belgrade Theatre
October 21, 2009
Writing about web page http://www.belgrade.co.uk/site/scripts/show_details.php?showID=367 A recurring complaint raised at the recent reviewing conference was the tendency of reviews to prioritise directorial concept over all else, at the detriment of detailed discussion of acting, design, text and other elements. It’s a fair complaint, though perhaps inevitable when discussing productions of 16th, 17th and 18th century …
The Convict’s Opera (Out of Joint/Sydney Theatre Company) @ Warwick Arts Centre
March 8, 2009
Writing about web page http://www.outofjoint.co.uk/prods/convictsopera.html Out of Joint’s new production The Convict’s Opera is a bit of an oddity. A group of convicts on board a ship decide to put on a production of John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera, complete with songs drawn from folk traditions and, occasionally, classic rock n’ roll numbers. The play …
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