A Winter’s Tale (Scene Individible) @ The Door, Birmingham Repertory Theatre
June 10, 2022
It’s perhaps inevitable that a company based in Stratford-upon-Avon – a town plagued with living statues – would end up producing a play with two of them. Scene Individible’s company-devised A Winter’s Tale, created in response to a brief to talk back to Shakespeare, took advantage of the paradoxes of living statues: the stillness that …
Henry VI Part III: The Chaos (Young Rep) @ The Door, Birmingham Repertory Theatre
July 13, 2008
It’s not unprecedented to produce one part of the Henry VI trilogy in isolation, but it’s an extremely rare occurrence and a financial gamble that few professional theatre companies can afford to take – who’s going to come and see just one part of a trilogy? Yet for their latest production the Young REP have …
Cymbeline (Kneehigh) @ Birmingham Repertory Theatre……
February 8, 2007
….. was cancelled, as there was a bomb scare in Birmingham right next to the theatre. But I’m sure it would have been good. Oh well.