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...Ellen McDougall’s sunny, sprightly staging makes great use of the venue’s penchant for audience interaction....
...This 1941 drama might feel creakily of its period in places, but the frustration that drives it comes spilling off the stage in Ellen McDougall’s fine new production, the better to rattle the consciences...
...A recipient of one of those commissions was Ellen Reid, one of the most accomplished of young American “tonalist” composers....
...The Unknown Island (Gate Theatre, London) This playful, intriguing little production of Portuguese writer José Saramago’s elliptical fable was Ellen McDougall’s first as artistic director of the Gate in...
...And yet Sarah Ruhl’s Dear Elizabeth at the Gate Theatre is an unexpected joy: a touching and tender account of a life-long relationship explored with playful affection in Ellen McDougall’s innovative production...
...For all Ellen McDougall’s staging cocoons them on an indoor pitch, Rosie Elnile’s inflatable design feels precariously poppable, a bubble that might burst at any second....
...Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Mastaba in the Serpentine in London’s Hyde Park is made from about 7,500 of them. The photos make it look impressive, but it is not universally popular....
...It is also a play that ends with domestic violence, with women killed by their husbands, and it is this that drives Ellen McDougall’s urgent, eloquent staging....
...Ellen McDougall sets sail as the new artistic director of the Gate with, appropriately, a parable about journeys into unexplored territory....
...Ellen McDougall’s buoyant production rattles along, driven by warm, well-defined performances....
...But though blisteringly acted, the piece feels as though it strains for effect and Ellen McDougall’s staging never quite hits home. Finally, Ireland Shed a Tear?...
...But there are also some delightful innovations in Ellen McDougall’s staging, such as a cartoon-style chase routine, while the transformation scene (courtesy of illusionist Richard Pinner) is quite stunning...
...In Ellen McDougall’s staging, dreamy little Marie slips into a magical make-believe alternative....
...In Ellen McDougall’s staging the tale becomes a celebration of the imagination as dreamy little Marie slips from the vexed world of her worried widowed mother and would-be soldier brother into a magical...
...Ellen McDougall’s festive show is tailored to children aged eight and over: a straight dramatic version of the story we know so well from the ballet....
...“This expectation does not exist in the euro area because of the way it was designed,” Profs Gourinchas and Jeanne explain....
...It functions somewhere between the metaphorical suffocation of Jeanne-Claude’s and Christo’s wrapping of the Reichstag in 1995 and the open, messy state of Andy Warhol’s Factory in New York....
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