English 333: Theatre in England
1992-1993
| * = Seen (or attended) by some but not everyone in the group. |
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| Wednesday, December 30 | |
| 3:00 p.m | Andrew Lloyd Webber. Phantom of the Opera (1986). Dir. Harold Prince. Design: Maria Björnson. With Michael Crawford (Phantom), Sarah Brightman (Christine Daae). Her Magesty's Theatre |
Thursday, December 31 |
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| 3:00 p.m. | Stephen Sondheim, music and lyrics. Assassins (1990). Dir. Sam Mendes. Book by John Weidman. Sets and Costumes by Anthony Ward. Lighting by Paul Payant. Musical Director Jeremy Sams. Cast: Paul Bentley (The Proprietor), Jack Ellis (Leon Czolgosz), Michael Cantwell (John Hinckley), Henry Goodman (Charles Guiteau), Paul Murphy (Guiseppe Zangara), Ciaran Hinds (Samuel Byck), Cathryn Bradshaw (Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme), Louise Gold (Sara Jane Moore), David Firth (Joyn Wilkes Booth), Anthony Barclay (The Balladeer), Kevin Walton (David Herold), Paul Bentley, Michelle Fine, Sue Kelvin, Gareth Snook, Kevin Walton (Bystanders), Sue Kelvin (Emma Goldman), Kevin Walton (President James Garfield), Gareth Snook (James Blaine), Paul Bentley (President Gerald Ford), Gareth Snook (Lee Harvey Oswald). Donmar Warehouse |
| 7:15 p.m. | Tony Harrison. Square Rounds (1992). Dir. Tony Harrison. Designer: Jocelyn Herbert. Music: Dominic Muldowney, Choreographer: Lawrence Evans. With Gillian Barge, Jo Cameron Brown, Helen Chadwick, Mary Chater, Paola Dionisotti, Maria Friedman, Jenny Galloway, Elaine Hallam, Sue Holland, Sara Kestelman, Sonya Leite, Maggie McCarthy, Myra McFadyen, Jane Nash, Theresa Petts, Juliet Prague, Emma Rogers, Mandy Short, Sian Thomas, Angela Tunstall, Catherine White, Arturo Brachetti, Lawrence Evans, Harry Towb, Catherine Edwards, Wendy Gadian, Helen Ireland, Irita Kutchmy. |
| Olivier Theatre |
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Friday, January 1 |
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| *12:00-2:00 Lord Mayor's New Year's Day Parade | |
| 8:00 p.m. | Jim Cartwright. The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (1992). Dir. Sam Mendes. Design: William Dudley. Lighting: Mick Hughes. Music: Tery Davies. Cast: Alison Steadman (Mari Hoff), Jane Horrocks (Little Voice), Pete Postlethwaite (Ray Say), Annette Badland (Sadie). Adrian Hood (Billy), George Raistrick (Phone Man / Mr. Boo). |
| Cottesloe Theatre |
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Saturday, January 2 |
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| 2:30 p.m. | Edmond Eugene Alexis Rostand. Cyrano de Bergerac (1898). Dir. Elijah Moshinsky. With Robert Lindsey (Cyrano), Stella Gonet (Roxanne), Gary Cady (Christian), Julian Glover (Comte de Guiche). |
| Haymarket Theatre |
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| 7:30 p.m | Oscar Wilde. An Ideal Husband (1899). Dir. Peter Hall. With Hannah Gordon (Lady Chiltern), David Yelland (Sir Robert Chiltern), Martin Shaw (Lord Goring). |
| Globe Theatre |
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Sunday, January 3 |
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| *11:00 a.m. | Eucharist 1115 at Westminster Abbey. Sung by the Allegri Singers. Louis Halsey (b. 1929), Missa Brevis. Thomas Tallis Ordinal 50 . |
| *4:00 p.m. | Reduced Shakespeare Company. The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged) . Produced and performed by Adam Long, Daniel Singer, Jess Winfield, Reed Martin, [37 plays in 97 minutes] |
| Criterion Theatre |
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Monday, January 4 |
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| *7:15 p.m. | William Shakespeare. Comedy of Errors (1590-91). Dir. Ian Judge. Set Design: Mark Thompson. With Desmond Barrit (Antipholus of Ephesus/Antipholus of Syracuse), Graham Turner (Dromio of Ephesus/ Dromio of Syracuse), Estelle Kohler (Adriana), Raymond Bloom (Angelo), Basil Hoskins (Aegeon), Caroline Loncq (Luciana), Cherry Morris (Aemilia), David Killick (Dr. Pinch/Solinus), Toni Palmer (Courtesan), David Summer (Balthasar), John Hodgkinson (Officer), Bernard Wright (Merchant), Andrew Havill (Merchant), Stephen Casey (Ephesian/ Messenger), Lily Gallafent (Ephesian), Marston Bloom (Ephesian), Miriam Honeyball (Ephesian), Penny Jones (Ephesian), Clare Lawrence (Ephesian), Anthony Skordi (Ephesian), Ian Embleton (Doppelganger), Edward Max (Doppelganger). |
| Barbican Theatre |
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Tuesday, January 5 |
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| 7:15 p.m. | William Shakespeare. A Midsummer Night's Dream (1594). Dir. Robert Lepage. With Angela Laurier (Puck), Timothy Spall (Bottom), Indra Ové (Hermia), Rudi Davies (Helena), Steven Beard (Peter Quince), Stephen Beckett (Other Fairy), Lolita Chakrabarti (Hippolyta), Simon Coates (Demetrius), John Cobb (Snug), Sarah D'Arcy (Cobweb), Sally Dexter (Titania), Rupert Graves (Lysander), Mandana Jones (Fairy), Jeffery Kissoon (Oberon), Paul Meston (First Fairy), Allan Mitchell (Theseus), Abraham Osuagwu (Moth), Brian Pettifer (Tom Snout), Alison Reid (Peaseblossom), Adrian Scarborough Francis Flute), Trevor Thomas (Egeus), Alec Westwood (Mustardseed). [The famous "Mudsummer Night's" production, performed in an on-stage pond of water, with Puck performed by a contortionist from Cirque de Soliel.] |
| Olivier Theatre |
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Wednesday, January 6 |
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| *2:30 p.m. | Andrew Lloyd Webber. Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1967). Dir. Steven Pimlot. Set Design: Mark Thompson. With Jason Donovan (Joseph), Linzi Hoteley (Narrator). |
| London Palladium |
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| 7:30 p.m. | Pierre Marivaux. The Game of Love and Chance (1730). Translated and adapted by Niel Bartlett (1992) Dir. Mike Alfreds and Neil Bartlet. Designer: Paul Dart. Cast: Maggie Steed (Sylvia), Caroline Quentin (Lisette), Trevor Baxter (Mr. Prowde), Stefan Bednarczyk (Maurice), Peter Wingfield (Mr. Dorant), Marcello Magni (Arlecchino). |
| Cottesloe Theatre |
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AT STRATFORD-UPON-AVON |
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Thursday, January 7 |
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| 1:30 p.m. | Christopher Marlowe. Tamburlaine (1587), Dir. Terry Hands. Designer: Johan Engels. Cast: Antony Sher (Tamburlaine), Claire Benedict (Zenocrate), Sophie Okonedo (Anippe, her maid), Andree Evans (Agydas, attendant), Toby Stephens (Celebinus/King of Argier), Jasper Britton (Calyphas/Meander), Antony Bunsee (King of Fez/Median Lord), Jack Klaff (Theridamus), Geoffrey Freshwater (Techelles), Gordon Case (Usumcasane), Lloyd Hutchinson (Mycetes, weak king of Persia/Almeda), Jonathan Cake (King of Jerusalem/Basso 2/Median Lord), Stephen Casey (Alcidamus/Callapine), James Connolly (Amyras/King of Morocco), Bella Enahoro (Olympia, queen of chastity), Darlene Johnson (Zabina) Nick Kemp (Basso 1/Governor of Damascus/Ortygius), Trevor Martin (Soldan of Egypt) Tracy-Ann Oberman (Ebea), Malcolm Storry (Bajazeth), Emily Watson (Perdica), David Westhead (Cosroe/Orcanes)Hannah Curran (Virgin 1), Stacey Murton (Virgin 2), Barry Farrimond (son), Tom Horton (son). |
| Swan Theatre |
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| 7:30 p.m. | Thomas Middleton and William Rowley. The Changeling (1622). Dir. Michael Attenborough. Designer: Julian McGowan. Cast: Jeffery Dench (Vermandero), Cheryl Campbell (Beatrice-Joanna), Sophie Okonedo (Diaphanta), Stephen Casey (Tomazo de Piracquo), Pearce Quigley (Alonzo de Piracquo), Michael Siberry (Alsemero), Guy Williams (Jasperino), Malcolm Storry (De Flores), Paul Webster (Dr. Alibius), Emily Raymond (Isabella, his beautiful wife), David Westhead (Antonio, the changeling), Dorian Macdonald (Franciscus/Inmate/ Servant), Geoffrey Freshwater (Lollio, "usher of idiots," the doctor's man), Barnaby Kay (Pedro, Antonio's friend), Jack Waters (Servant), Ian Taylor (Inmate/servant), Emma Gregory (Inmate), Stephanie Jacob (Inmate), Tracy-Ann Oberman (Inmate), Catherine Mears (Inmate). |
| Swan Theatre |
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Friday, January 8 |
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| 7:30 p.m. | William Shakespeare. Antony and Cleopatra (1607-08). Dir. John Ciard. Set by Sue Blane. Cast: Claire Higgins (Cleopatra), Richard Johnson (Antony), Paul Jesson (Domitius Enobarbus), John Nettles (Octavius Caesar), Claire Benedict (Charmian), Susie Lee Hayward (Iras), Phyllida Hancock (Octavia), Toby Stephens (Pompey/Guard), John Hodgkinson (Decretas), Nick Holder (Mardian), Maxwell Hutcheon (Diomedes), Andrew Jarvis (Agrippa), Ben Steele (Caesarion), Colin Starkey (Scarus), Griffith Jones (Schoolmaster), Adrian Hutchings (Alexander), Nick Kemp (Alexas), Geoffrey Abbott (Soldier/ Varrius), Jasper Britton (Soothsayer), Alfred Burke (Lepidus), David Purt (Proculeius), Gordon Case (Menas), James Connolly (Thidias), Roger Frost (Maecenas), Alan Cox (Messenger). |
Royal Shakespeare Theatre |
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Saturday, January 9 |
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| 1:30 p.m. | William Shakespeare. Taming of the Shrew (1592). Dir. Bill Alexander. Design: Tim Goodchild. Cast: Amanda Harris (Katherine), Anton Lesser (Petruchio), Rebecca Saire (Bianca), John McAndrew (Lucentio), Graham Turner (Hortensio), Andrew Cryer (Biondello), Richard McCabe (Tranio), Geoffrey Freshwater (Grumio), Paul Webster (Gremio), Trevor Martin (Baptista Minola), James Walker (Landlord/Pedant), Cliaran McIntyre (Tailor); Prologue: Maxwell Hutcheon (Christopher Sly); Sloane Rangers: Dominic Mafham (Lord Simon Llewellyn), Jack Waters (Rupert Llewellyn), Dorian MacDonald (Honorable Hugo Daley-Young), Catherine Mears (Lady Sarah Ormsby), Emily Watson (Mrs. Ruth Banks-Ellis), Barnaby Kay (Peter Sinclair). |
| Royal Shakespeare Theatre |
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| 7:30 p.m. | William Shakespeare. The Winter's Tale (1610-11). Dir. Adrian Noble. Designer: Anthony Ward. Cast: John Nettles (Leontes), Samantha Bond (Hermione), Paul Jesson (Polixenes), Gemma Jones (Paulina), Benjamin Whitrow (Camillo), Andrew Jarvis (Antigonus), Richard McCabe (Autolycus), Phyllida Hancock (Perdita), Alan Cox (Florizel), Jeffrey Dench (Old Shepherd), Graham Turner (Young Shepherd), Stephanie Jacob (Mopsa), Jenna Russell (Dorcas), Angela Vale (Emilia), John Bott (Archidamus/ Steward), Marc Elliot (Mamillius), Barnaby Kay (Servant), James Walker (Dion), Pearce Quigley (Cleomenes), Fiona Bocock (Child), Roger Frost (Gaoler), Michael Hales (Child), Robert Hales (Child), John Hodgkinson (Lord), Edmund Kingsley (Child), Kate Kruszynsky (Child), Poppy Lawton (Child), Antony Woolf (Child), Ian Taylor (Lord/Mariner), Guy Williams (Lord). |
| Royal Shakespeare Theatre |
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| 11:30 p.m. | Harold Pinter. A Slight Ache (1961). Dir. James Walker. With Maxwell Hutcheon (Edward) and Stephanie Jacob (Flora). |
| The Other Place |
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IN LONDON: |
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| Sunday, January 10 | |
| 8:30 p.m | Maureen Chadwick. Josephine (1992). |
| Battersea Arts Centre |
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Monday, January 11 |
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| 6:30 p.m. | William Shakespeare. Hamlet (1602). Dir. Adrian Noble. Design: Bob Crowley. With Kenneth Branagh (Hamlet), John Shrapnel (Claudio), Jane Lapotaire (Gertrude), Clifford Rose (Ghost), Joanne Pearce (Ophelia), Richard Bonneville (Laertes), David Bradley (Polonius). Bob Edwards (Horatio), Richard Moore (First Gravedigger). |
| Barbican Theatre |
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Tuesday, January 12 |
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| 7:15 p.m. | George Bernard Shaw. Pygmalion (1913). Dir. Howard Davies. Design: William Dudley. Music: Dominic Muldowney. Cast: Frances Barber (Eliza Doolittle), Alan Howard (Henry Higgins), Robin Bailey (Colonel Pickering), Michael Bryant (Doolittle), Alison Fiske (Mrs. Pearce), Polly Adams (Mrs. Eynsford-Hill), Simon Coates (Freddy Einsford-Hill), Hermione Norris (Clara Eynsford-Hill), Gillian Barge (Mrs. Higgins), Gertan Klauber (Nepommuck), Doyne Byrd (Host), Christopher Campbell (Bystander, Covent Garden), Martin Chamberlain (Taximan), Judy Damas (Parlourmaid), Seymour Matthews (First Constable/ Sarcastic Bystander); Roger Bingham, Laura Brook, Judith Coke, William Cox, Ultean Ely-O'Carroll, Mary Mitchell, Nick Mollo, Theresa Petts (Covent Garden, Ballroom, London Night Scenes). |
| Olivier Theatre |
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Wednesday, January 13 |
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| 3:00 p.m. | Kander and Ebb. Kiss of the Spider Woman (1992). Dir. Hal Prince. Book by Terrance McNally, based on a novel by Manuel Puig. Choreography by Vincent Paterson and Rob Marshall. Cast: Chita Rivera (Aurora Freedom), Brent Carver (Molina), Anthony Crivello (Valentin), Merle Louise, Kristi Carnahan, Jerry Christakos, Herndon Lackey, Keith McDaniel, Robert Montano, Dan O'Grady, Raymond Rodriguez. |
| Shaftesbury Theatre |
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| *7:30 p.m. | Rodgers and Hammerstein. Carousel (1945). Dir. Nicholas Hytner. Choreography: Kenneth MacMillan. Designer: Bob Crowley. Cast: Janie Dee, Patricia Routledge, Clive Rowe, Joanna Riding, Kevin Wainwright. Nikki Belsher, Louise Bracey, Anne Breckell, Connor Byrne, Rachel Clarke, Phil Daniels, Josefina Gabrielle, Justin Harvey, Michael Hayden, David Henry, Luke Hope, Ruby-Marie Hutchinson, Jee Hyun Noh, Paul Jenner, Michael Keegan-Dolan, Duncan MacVicar, Bonnie Moore, Sadie Ann Morgan, Katrina Murphy, Bernadine Pritchett, Ernestina Quarcoo, Daren Phillip Redick, Simon Rice, Heather Robbins, Charles Shirvell, Matthew Skilton, Stanislav Tchassov, Joss Urch, Melvin Whitfield, Wendy Woodbridge, Natalie Wright. |
| Lyttelton Theatre |
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| *8:30 p.m. | Pam Gems. Queen Christina (1983). Dir. Andrew Pratt. An Absolute Theatre Production. With Laura Cox and David Smidman. |
| Man in the Moon |
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Seminar Participants: |
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Elana Bier
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| Guests: | |
| Robert and Cordelia Peck | |