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Evening Standard Awards: NT & Court on top form

PKM — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 12:40:04 +0000

The first of this year’s annual theatre awards was hosted by Stephen Fry, with Damian Lewis, Sir Ian McKellen, Diana Vickers and Martin Freeman among the guests.

It was a fine evening for the National Theatre and the Royal Court, each collecting gongs in a number of categories.

The Hollywood actor Liam Neeson took to the stage to Read more ...

Review: Kin – Royal Court ***

JBR — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 12:19:08 +0000

Pre-teen relationships are fraught with danger, and innocence lost is a key theme of E.V. Crowe’s new play, Kin. Playing Upstairs at the Royal Court, Kin is set in a girl’s boarding school in the 1990’s where Bunny Christie’s marvellously shabby, institutional set creates the perfect atmosphere of decay. The muted green Read more ...

Mark Ravenhill and Marc Almond team up at Royal Court

PKM — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 11:03:24 +0000

The work-in-progress Rough Cut season at the Royal Court will see Ravenhill and composer Conor Mitchell work together on Ten Plagues, a new work based on eyewitness accounts from the 1665 Black Death, following one man's journey through a city in crisis.

A fantastic night for Spring Awakening at Olivier Awards

PKM — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:39:37 +0000

It received rave reviews when it opened in the West End following a successful run at the Lyric Hammersmith, but unfortunately Spring Awakening was to be short lived. Spring sprung out of town almost as quick as it came on the scene, to the dismay of the theatre scene.

But last night the musical received the recognition Read more ...

Royal Court, Donmar & National are driving force at Oliviers

PKM — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:46:30 +0000

The Royal Court has received a staggering fifteen nominations. Lucy Prebble's Enron and Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem have six nominations each, going head to head in the Best New Play category.

The Donmar excels with ten nods and the National Theatre trail closely behind with a total of nine.

It's stiff Read more ...