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16 The Company of A Very Very Very Dark Matter. WORLD PREMIERE OF A VERY VERY VERY DARK MATTER The London Theatre Company’s production of Martin McDonagh’s new play, A Very Very Very Dark Matter, directed by Matthew Dunster, will open at the Bridge Theatre on 24 October for a 12-week run. In a townhouse in Copenhagen works Hans Christian Andersen, a teller of exquisite and fantastic children’s tales beloved by millions. But the true source of his stories dwells in his attic upstairs, her existence a dark secret kept from the outside world. As dangerous, twisted and funny as his National Theatre and Broadway hit The Pillowman, Martin McDonagh’s new play travels deep into the abysses of the imagination. Martin McDonagh is an award-winning writer and director. His plays are The Beauty Queen of Leenane, A Skull in Connemara, The Lonesome West, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, The Cripple of Inishmaan, The Pillowman, A Behanding in Spokane and Hangmen. As a writer and Photo: Eleanor Howarth. director for film, his credits are Seven Psychopaths, In Bruges, Six Shooter and most recently, the Academy Award, BAFTA and Golden Globe winning Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. Matthew Dunster directed McDonagh’s Hangmen at the Royal Court which also transferred to New York. His other directing credits include The Seagull and A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, Love’s Sacrifice for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Liberian Girl at the Royal Court, Love the Sinner for the National Theatre, Doctor Faustus, Imogen, The Frontline and Much Ado About Nothing for Shakespeare’s Globe, Mametz for the National Theatre of Wales, Before the Party for the Almeida Theatre and Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Macbeth and Mogadishu for the Royal Exchange Theatre. The Bridge Theatre is situated at 3 Potters Fields Park, SE1 2SG. Box Office telephone 0333 320 0051 or boxoffice@bridgetheatre.co.uk THE PRISONER Dorfman until 4 October Now well into his 90s, former Royal Shakespeare Company director Peter Brook has spent over 40 years based in France, continuing to produce new work with Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord where this meditative piece premiered prior to a brief stint at the Edinburgh International Festival and its current limited run at the National Theatre. Co-written and co-directed with his long-term collaborator Marie-Hélène Estienne, this 70 minute, parable-like production with its multinational cast mainly eschews props. A desolate, sandstrewn landscape dotted with desiccated trees and branches – plus a blanket or two – are all that are used to conjure the faraway land where a Visitor (Donald Sumpter), in search of the secrets of nature, comes across Hervé Goffings’ Ezekiel. He directs the old man’s travels to where his nephew Mavuso is serving a 20 year sentence – not in jail, but camped on a hill facing the prison walls – for murdering his own father whom he discovered in bed with his daughter Nadia, Mavuso’s sibling for whom Mavuso himself had incestuous feelings. The constraints which keep him on the hillside are internal – there are no bars preventing him from leaving. But although there are some clever and rather beautiful moments (out of nothing, Hiran Abeysekera’s hot-headed Mavuso creates an ill-fated rat beneath his blanket; dimming and brightening lighting subtly marks the passage of time) this latest, somewhat obscure offering from the influential and highly lauded Brook aspires to greater profundity than it achieves. Louise Kingsley t h i s i s l o n d o n m a g a z i n e • t h i s i s l o n d o n o n l i n e
LAURA TYRER TO STAR AS VELMA KELLY IN CHICAGO Laura Tyrer joins the West End cast of Chicgo at the Phoenix Theatre this week, playing the role of Velma Kelly from Monday 24 <strong>Sept</strong>ember through to Saturday 6 October. Laura joins Alexandra Burke as Roxie Hart, Duncan James as Billy Flynn, Mazz Murray as Mama Morton and Paul Rider as Amos Hart. Laura Tyrer secured the role of Velma via an audition to be shown as part of the brand new ITV series The Big Audition, from the makers of First Dates, which begins next month. The series, a Twenty Twenty production, delves into the world of real life, genuine auditions. The multi award-winning Kander & Ebb musical Chicago, winner of six Tony Awards, two Olivier Awards and a Grammy, returned to London’s Phoenix Theatre on Monday 26 March. Since it opened in New York in 1996, the show has played in 36 countries worldwide, and been performed in English, Dutch, German, Swedish, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Italian, French, Danish, Japanese and Korean. It has grossed over $1.5 billion worldwide and has played over 32,500 performances worldwide, and seen by an estimated 31 million people around the world. Chicago continues to play on Broadway, where it celebrated its 21st birthday last year. It is the world’s longest running American musical. Photo: Tristram Kenton THE WOMAN IN BLACK 12,000th PERFORMANCE PW Productions are celebrating 12,000 performances of Susan Hill’s The Woman in Black this week at The Fortune Theatre. The Woman in Black currently stars Richard Hope as ‘Arthur Kipps’ and Mark Hawkins as ‘The Actor’. Producer Peter Wilson said: 'To have achieved 12,000 performances may not be unique, but it is remarkable. Susan Hill’s great story allied to Robin Herford’s carefully inspired direction of Stephen Mallatratt’s brilliant adaptation have kept the show fresh, exciting - and constantly in demand. I’m grateful to them all, and to the extraordinary casts and crews that have kept The Fortune Theatre busy for so long.' The Woman in Black will then celebrate its 30th Anniversary in the West End in June 2019. Stephen Mallatratt’s adaptation of Susan Hill’s best-selling novel tells the story of a lawyer obsessed with a curse that he believes has been cast over his family by the spectre of a ‘Woman in Black’. He engages a young actor to help him tell his story and exorcise the fear that grips his soul. It begins innocently enough, but as they delve further into his darkest memories, they find themselves caught up in a world of eerie marshes and moaning winds. The borders between make-believe and reality begin to blur and the flesh begins creep. Box Office telephone 0844 871 7626. RAINDANCE 2018 The 26th Raindance Film Festival is now in full swing in London’s West End. The 2018 programme boasts more than 80 feature films, 99 short films and 33 VR experiences, including 31 world premieres. Highlights include Saint Judy (pictured), executive produced by Alfred Molina and starring Michelle Monaghan, which follows a fictitious regime change by ordinary people; Piotr Domalewski’s Silent Night, the story of a young economic migrant, who comes home unannounced for a traditional Christmas Eve supper; and Dizzy Pursuit, an ambitious comedy that captures the anxiety, humour and confusion of relationships throttled by a torrent of misfortune. The festival continues to champion virtual, augmented and mixed reality with this year’s immersive strand, Raindance Immersive Stories and Interactive Worlds, (4–7 October). It also welcomes Chile as guest country, showcasing Chilean films such as Damn Kids, portraying the vicious dictatorship of General Pinochet, and The Night, the story of an ordinary student who must choose between staying true or giving in to his dark side. The festival comes to a close on 7 October with the international premiere of psychological horror film, The Odds, the debut feature from writer/director, Bob Giordano. For full details and tickets, visit festival.raindance.org Ben Stevens t h i s i s l o n d o n m a g a z i n e • t h i s i s l o n d o n o n l i n e 17
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