Hints and tips:
...Herrin makes plain this connection: rather than have one actor play both the older and younger Tom, he splits the role....
...Jeremy Herrin, who directed the play in 2011, described it as the “original romcom” and the pair feel like the template for so many couples: Harry and Sally, Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy, Ross and Rachel...
...Director Jeremy Herrin confidently fills the Olivier to create a dark Expressionist nightmare. Paul Englishby’s melancholy jazz score hangs over the action like smoke....
...But Jeremy Herrin’s staging is spectacular and it features a terrific central performance from Lesley Manville....
...Englishness, was the general consensus: a particular paternalistic, proprietorial approach towards society and art, even though the owner of the Sussex country house, John Christie, established its musical...
...Lindsay Anderson was David Storey’s go-to man; John Dexter, Arnold Wesker’s....
...The story he has to tell is undeniably intriguing: the tale of the birth of Glyndebourne and of its maverick founder John Christie, doggedly pursuing his eccentric vision to build an opera house and stage...
...At the centre is a superb performance from John Heffernan as Oppenheimer....
...The achievement of Haley, director Jeremy Herrin and actor Stanley Townsend is to make such a situation understandable. It is the very best kind of uncomfortable viewing....
...Robert Hastie directs this staging, with Julian Ovenden playing John and Jonathan Broadbent as Guy....
...Led by a gruff, tormented Richard Armitage as John Proctor, Farber’s terrific ensemble release the harrowing power of this brilliant play....
...In contrast to Robert Bolt’s saintly Thomas More in that play, John Ramm here is sanctimoniously hectoring....
...He’s also great at dropping bombshells – there is one in each of the three acts, each handled beautifully by Jeremy Herrin and his cast in a nicely edgy production....
...All her guests – her bullish husband Paul (Steffan Rhodri), chatterbox friend Marge (Elizabeth Berrington), twitchy John (David Armand) and his sullen wife Evelyn (Kara Tointon) – are reluctant company....
...Herrin’s observation highlights the importance of talk, of self-expression and verbal exchange, in the play....
...“Jewellery in a retail environment is locked up in a glass case,” says Jessica Herrin, the company’s chief executive and founder....
...Jeremy Herrin, in his Globe directorial debut, hits the spot: he keeps the laughs coming but also finds room for some of the most intense drama I have seen here....
...However, unlike Jeremy Herrin’s production currently at Shakespeare’s Globe, Josie Rourke is here less concerned with showing the full breadth of the play’s dramatic palette....
...Jeremy Herrin gets fine, unwinsome performances out of his young cast; Ciara Southwood is accomplished as Mimi and (confusingly) Mimi Keene appropriately assured as Janey....
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