English 333: Theatre in England
1998-1999
| * = Seen (or attended) by some but not everyone in the group. |
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| Sunday, December 27 |
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| *7:30 p.m | Jean Racine. Two Tragedies: Phèdre (1677), in a new version by Ted Hughes; Britannicus (1669), in a new version by Robert David MacDonald. Dir. Jonathan Kent. Design by Maria Björnson. Lighting by Mark Henderson. Music by Jonathan Dove. Cast for Phèdre : Toby Stephens (Hippolytus), David Bradley (Théramène), Barbara Jefford (Oenone), Diana Rigg (Phèdre), Holly De Jong (Panope), Joanna Roth (Aricia), Avril Elgar (Ismène), Julian Glover (Thesus). John Fairfoul (Guard). For Britannicus : Barbara Jefford (Albina), Diana Rigg (Agrippina), David Bradley (Burrus), Kevin McKidd (Britannicus), Julian Glover (Narcissus), Toby Stephens (Nero), Joanna Roth (Julia), John Fairfoul & Colin Haigh (Guards). |
| Albery Theatre |
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Monday, December 28 |
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| *2:15 p.m. | Cinderella . Book and lyrics by David Cregan. Music by Brian Protheroe (1991). Dir. Kerry Michael. With Fiona Wade (Cinderella), Paul Keating (Buttons), Jim McManus (Baron Jones), Amanda Gordon (Sam), Jamie Zubairi (Jack), Alwyne Taylor (Queen Charlotte), Colin Roy (King James), Dean Maynard (Prince Hugo), Debra Michaels (Fairy Godmother), Brian Protheroe (Mrs. Joy Da Palma, the wicked stepmother), Rebecca Deren (Lymphida), Natalie Tinn (Cloaca). |
Stratford East Theatre Royal |
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| 7:45 p.m. | J. B. Priestley, An Inspector Calls (1945), dir. Stephen Daldry. With Paul Whitchurch (Inspector Goole), Marjorie Yates (Sybil Birling), William Gaunt (Arthur Birling), Laurence Kennedy (Gerald Croft), Sara Griffiths (Sheila Birling), Tim Steed (Eric Birling), Diana Payne Myers (Edna). |
| Garrick Theatre |
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Tuesday, December 29 |
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| 2:15 p.m. | Terry Johnson, Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick (1998), dir. Terry Johnson. With Geoffrey Hutchings (Sid James), Jacqueline Defferary (Sally), Adam Godley (Kenneth Williams), Gina Bellman (Imogen Hassall), Samantha Spiro (Barbara Windsor), Kenneth MacDonald (Eddie). |
| RNT Lyttelton Theatre |
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[Several also saw the Carry On exhibit at the Museum of the Moving Image , an exhibit set up in conjunction with Terry Johnson's play.] |
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| 7:15 p.m. | William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (1597), dir. Gregory Duran. With Julian Curry (Antonio), Andrew Ufondo (Salerio), Andrew Maud (Solanio), Scott Handy (Bassanio), Dominic Rowan (Lorenzo), John Dougall (Gratiano), Alan Stocks (Leonardo), Philip Voss (Shylock), Jimmy Chisholm (Lancelot Gobbo), Emma Handy (Jessica), Helen Schlesinger (Portia), Sian Reeves (Nerissa). |
| Barbican Theatre |
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Wednesday, December 30 |
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| 2:30 p.m. | Tom Stoppard, The Invention of Love (1997), dir. Richard Eyre. With John Wood (the older A.E. Housman), Paul Rhys (the younger Housman), David Ryall (Charon; Chairman of Selection Comittee), Adam Barker (Pollard), Jamie Glover (Jackson), Simon Markey (Vice Chancellor of Oxford; Pattison; Postgate), Ian Mitchell (Pater; Harris), Kris Marshall (a Balliol Student; Chamberlain), Hugh Ross (Ruskin; Labouchère). John Carlisle (Jowett; Stead), Paul Benzing (Ellis; Member of Selection Committee; Jerome), Gabrielle Jourdan (Katharine), David Slater (Bunthorne). |
Haymarket Theatre |
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| 7:30 p.m | Peter Shaffer, Amadeus (1979), dir. Peter Hall. With David Suchet (Salieri), Michael Sheen (Mozart), Lucy Whybrow (Constance), Charles Kay (Emperor Joseph II of Austria), Peter Blythe (Count Johann Kilian Von Strack), Christopher Benjamin (Count Orsini-Rosenberg), Karl Johnson (Baron Van Swieten), Ken Sabberton (The Venticelli), Paul Stewart (Major Domo), William Sleigh (Salieri's Valet), David Brierley (Salieri's Cook), Peter Gordon (Kapellmeister Bonno), Leda Hodgson (Teresa Salieri), Chloe Angharad (Katherina Cavalieri). |
Old Vic Theatre |
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Thursday, December 31 |
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| 2:30 p.m. | Eduardo de Filippo, Filumena Marturano (1946), dir. Peter Hall. Translated by Timberlake Wertenbaker. With Judi Dench (Filumena), Michael Pennington (Domenico Soriano), Michael Byrne (Alfredo Amoroso), Yvonne Bonnamy (Rosalia Solimene), Christopher Bianchi (Waiter), Sally Knyvette (Diana), Nicola Ratcliffe (Lucia), Simon Scott (Nocella),Laurence Mitchell (Umberto), John Gordon-Cinclair (Riccardo), Jason Watkins (Michele), Louise Breslin (Teresina). |
Piccadilly Theatre |
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| 7:30 p.m. | Into the Woods . Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Book by James Lapine (1988). Dir. John Crowley . With Frank Middlemass (Narrator), Jenna Russell (Cinderella), Christopher Pizzey (Jack), Michelle Blair and Zoe Walsham (Milky White), Nick Holder (Baker), Sophie Thompson (Baker's Wife), Louise Davidson (Cinderella's Stepmother), Caroline Sheen (Florinda), Ceri Ann Gregory (Lucinda), Sheila Reid (Jack's Mother), Sheridan Smith (Little Red Riding Hood), Clare Burt (Witch), Michael N. Harbour (Cinderella's Father; Mysterious Man), Dilys Laye (Cinderella's Mother; Red Riding Hood's Grandmother; Giant), Damian Lewis (Wolf), Samantha Lavender (Rapunzel), Matt Rawle (Rapunzel's Prince), Damian Lewis (Cinderella's Prince), Tony Timberlake (Steward). |
| Donmar Warehouse |
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Friday, January 1 |
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*12:00-2:00 |
Lord Mayor's New Year's Day Parade. Over a hundred entries with a cast of thousands, starting off with the Missouri All-Star Band, and including bands and cheerleaders from highschools in Georgia, Alabama, Ohio, Tokyo, the Universal Cheerleaders Association, antique cyclists, steam engines, traction engines, etc. and ending with the Frankfort High School Band. |
| *7:45 p.m. | Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg, Miss Saigon (1987), dir. Nicholas Hytner. With Leo Valdez (The Engineer), Joanna Ampil (Kim), David Shannon (Chris), Richard Lloyd King (John), Gunilla Backman (Ellen), Jo de la Cerna (Thuy). |
Drury Lane Theatre |
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| *7:45 p.m. | Alan Ayckbourn. Things We Do For Love (1997). Dir. Mark Rayment. [See January 4, below.] |
Duchess Theatre |
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| 8:00 p.m. | Alan Bennett, Kafka's Dick (1986). Dir. Peter Hall. With Julia McKenzie, Eric Sykes, and John Gordon-Sinclair. |
Piccadilly Theatre |
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Saturday, January 2 |
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| *10:00 a.m. | Guided tour of the restored Globe Theatre. |
| 12:15 p.m. | Guided tour of the National Theatre. |
| 2:15 p.m. | Harold Pinter, Betrayal (1978), dir. Trevor Nunn. With Douglas Hodge (Jerry), Imogen Stubbs (Emma), Anthony Calf (Robert), Arturo Venegas (Waiter). |
RNT Lyttelton Theatre |
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| 7:30 p.m. | Michael Frayn, Copenhagen (1998), dir. Michael Blakemore. With David Burke (Niels Bohr), Sara Kestelman (Margrethe Bohr), Matthew Marsh (Werner Heisenberg). |
| RNT Cottesloe Theatre |
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Sunday, January 3 |
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| *11:00 a.m. | Services at Westminster Abbey |
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| 5:00 p.m. | Yazmina Reza, Art (1994), trans. Christopher Hampton; dir. Matthew Warchus. With Jack Dee, Nigel Havers, Ron Cook. 85 minutes. |
Wyndhams Theatre |
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| *7:30 p.m. | Nona Shepphard, Adventures of Robyn Hood (1988), dir. Nona Shepphard. Music by Helen Glavin. Design by Bettina Reeves. Lighting by Christine White. With Edda Sharpe (Robyn Hood), Sally Armstrong (Ranulph de Greazby & Abbot Robert) Sandra James-Young (Big Joan Surf), Roz McCutcheon (Prioress Tuckberg), Winnie Owen (Maid Marian), Norma Dumezweni (Alana Dale), Clarke Hayes (Ket O' The Oak), Allison Harding (Sheriff of Nottingham), Jo Rawlinson and Clarke Hayes (Gilbert the Stag). |
| Drill Hall Theatre |
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Monday, January 4 |
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| *7:30 p.m. | William Shakespeare. The Winter's Tale (1610), dir. Gregory Doran. With Antony Sher (Leontes), Alexandra Gilbreath (Hermione), Emily Bruni (Mamillius), Geoffrey Freshwater (Camillo), Jeffry Wickham (Antigonus), Estelle Kohler (Paulina), William Mannering (Cleomenes), Steven Atholl (Dion). Ken Bones (Polixenes), Ryan McCluskey (Florizel), Peter Macqueen (Archidamus), Emily Bruni (Perdita), Ian Hughes (Autolycus), James Hayes (Old Shepherd), Christopher Brand (Young Shepherd), Gail Ghislaine Sixsmith (Mopsa), Myra McFadyen (Dorcas). |
| 7:45 p.m. | Alan Ayckbourn, Things We Do For Love (1997), dir. Mark Rayment. Originally directed by Alan Ayckbourn. Music by John Pattison. With Belinda Lang (Barbara), Alexander Hanson (Hamish), Caroline Harker (Nikki), and Adrian McLoughlin (Gilbert). |
| Duchess Theatre |
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Tuesday, January 5 |
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| 2:30 p.m. | Salman Rushdie (1990), Haroun and the Sea of Stories , adapted by Tim Supple and David Tushingham (1998), dir. Tim Supple. With Paul Bazely, Sudha Bhuchar, Ansuman Biswas, Robert Bowman, Sam Dastor, Stephen Finegold, Nitin Chandra Ganatra, Sapna Hindocha, Nizwar Karanj, Syreeta Jimar, Adrian Lee, Simon Nagra, Dhobi Oparei, Nabil Shaban, N. Tiken Singh. |
RNT Cottesloe Theatre |
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| 7:30 p.m. | Bertolt Brecht. Mr. Puntila and his Man Matti . After stories and a draft play by Hella Wuolijoki (1940; first performed in Zurich , 1948), in a new version by Lee Hall (1998), dir. Kathryn Hunter. With Hamish McColl (Puntila), Sean Foley (Matti), Hayley Carmichael (Eva), Chris Larner (Waiter; also Red Hair and Parson), Mick Barnfather (Judge; also Red Surkkala), Harry Gostelow (Attaché; also Labourer), Jim Findley (Vet; also Cripple and Lawyer), Joy Richardson (Moonshile Emma; also Fina), Samantha McDonald (Chemist's Assistant - Mary; also Fat Man and Parson's Wife), Hayley Carmichael (Milkmaid - Lisu), Golda John (Telephonist - Sandra; also Laina). |
Almeida at the Albery Theatre |
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Wednesday, January 6 |
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| 3:30 p.m. | Conor McPherson, The Weir (1997), dir. Ian Rickson. With Kieran Ahern, Dermot Crowley, Jim Norton, Michelle Fairley Berndan Coyle. |
Duke of York/Royal Court Downstairs |
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| 7:45 p.m. | Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband (1895), dir. Peter Hall. With Oliver Cotton (Sir Robert Chiltern), Geraldine Fitzgerald (Lady Chiltern), Amanda Wilde (Miss Mabel Chiltern), Richard Todd (Earl of Caversham), Simon Ward (Lord Goring) Susannah York (Mrs. Cheveley), Barbara Murray (Lady Markby), Graham Ingle (Vicomte de Nanjac), Rose Wadham (Lady Basildon), Caroline Lawrie (Mrs. Marchmont), Robin Browne (Mr. Montford), Walter Hall (Mason), Robin Browne (Phipps), Matthew Rowland-Roberts (James; Mr. Barford), Helen Dorward (Duchess of Marlborough; Lady Jane Barford). |
| Lyric Theatre |
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| Thursday, January 7 | |
| 1:45 p.m. | William Shakespeare, The Tempest (1611), dir. Adrian Noble. With David Calder (Prospero), Evroy Deer (Ferdinand), Robert Glenister (Caliban), Scott Randy (Ariel), David Henry (Antonio), Penny Layden (Miranda), Adrian Schiller (Trinculo), Barry Stanton (Stephano), John Straiton (Sebastian). |
Barbican Theatre |
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| 7:15 p.m. | William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona (1592), dir. Edward Hall. With Dominic Rowan (Proteus), Tom Goodman-Hill (Valentine), Leslie Vickerage (Julia), Robin Weaver (Lucetta), John Dougall (Speed), Sandy MacNab (Antonio), Alan Stocks (Panthino), Poppy Miller (Sylvia), Mark Hadfield (Launce), Colin McCormack (Duke of Milan, Sylvia's father), James Tucker (Thurio), Andrew Maud (Sir Eglamour), Ryan Pope (First Outlaw), Jon Clairmonte (Second Outlaw), Giles Taylor (Third Outlaw), Tina Gambe (Wedding Guest), Cassie (Crab). |
| The Pit Theatre |
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Friday, January 8 |
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| *1:00 p.m. | A Chekhov Circus: Four Pieces by Anton Chekhov: Vanka, The Evils of Tobacco, I Want to Sleep, Swan Song , dir. Julie Osman. An Anglo-Russian Theatre Production. Patron Elena Stanislavskaya. With Tatiana Lavrentieva (The Ringmistress), Natasha Studenova (Varvara the Gipsy Dancer), Simon Fitzpatrick (Ivan Zhukov the Russian Dancing Bear), John Albasiny (Vasily Vasilich Svetlovidov the Clown). With a special guest appearance by Nyukhin played by John Albasiny. |
| 7:15 p.m. | Shadows . Two plays by J. M. Synge, "Riders to the Sea" (1904) and "Shadow of the Glen" (1903), and one by W. B. Yeats, "Purgatory" (1938). Dir. John Crowley . With Stephen Kennedy, Stella McCusker, Mairead McKinley, Aislinn Mangan, Lalor Roddy, Owen Sharpe. |
The Pit Theatre |
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| Saturday, January 9 | |
| *3:00 p.m. | Michael Frayn. Alarms and Excursions (1998). Dir. Michael Blakemore. Music by Terry Davies. With Felicity Kendal, Kicky Henson, Josie Lawrence, Robert Bathurst. |
| 5:30 p.m. | Dinner at Brown's |
| 7:45 p.m. | West Side Story (1957). Music by Leonard Bernstein. Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Book by Arthur Laurents. Jerome Robbins Original Direction and Choreography reproduced by Alan Johnson. Cast: The Jets: Edward Baker-Duly (Riff), David Habbin (Tony), Philip Campbell (Action), Andrew Prosser (A-rab), Alex Harkins (Baby John), Simon David Trout (Snowboy), Leon Webster (Big Deal), Edward Hayes-Neary (Diesel), Danny Hosier (Gee-Tar), Rachel Pressland (Graziella), Bonnie Parker (Velma), Sarah Basinger (Minnie), Kate Ryan (Clarice), Jennifer Ashton (Anybodys). The Sharks: Graham MacDuff (Bernado), Katie Knight-Adams (Maria), Anna-Jane Casey (Anita), Idris Moudi (Chino), Nunzio Lombardo (Pepe), Justin Lucas Harris (Indio), Steven-John Tokaya (Luis), Paul Allnutt (Tora), Paul Tarling (Anxious), Matthew Hudson (Nibbles), Celia Graham (Rosalia), Bernadine (Consuela), Joanne Henry (Teresita), Irina Aggrey (Francisca), Rachel Scarfe (Estella). |
Prince Edward Theatre |
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| Other plays for consideration: | |
| Samuel Beckett. Krapp's Last Tape . Dir. Edward Petherbridge and David Hunt. Performed by Edward Petherbridge. An RSC Production. Jan. 5 to February 6. | |
| Arts Theatre |
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Seminar Participants: |
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Janica Barnett |
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