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...left-field successes: the dazzling little gem Operation Mincemeat (Fortune Theatre) is enjoying an extended run in the West End while Tim Minchin and Matthew Warchus’s excellent Groundhog Day is back at the Old Vic...
...Enjoy Shakespeare’s delightful knockabout comedy about mistaken identity under the stars.July 13-September 26, rsc.org.uk Bagdad CafeOld Vic, LondonEmma Rice returns to the Old Vic with her company Wise...
...Studzinski furthers this aim with institutions such as the Getty Museum in Los Angeles and the Almeida and Young Vic theatres in London....
...Old Vic, London to October 5, oldvictheatre.com...
...It also, in Trevor Nunn’s production, moves exceedingly slowly....
...Young Vic, London to November 2, youngvic.org A Doll’s House Tanika Gupta moves Ibsen’s classic to 19th-century Calcutta, lending new significance to a story of inequality and repression....
...He brought in the directors Trevor Nunn and Peter Brook, and directed a definitive Hamlet starring David Warner in 1965....
...Highlights include Trevor Nunn’s 1979 Macbeth with Judi Dench and Ian McKellen (January 9), a 1963 As You Like It with Vanessa Redgrave (January 19), Peter Brook’s austere King Lear with Paul Scofield (January...
...The original creative team — the composer, director Trevor Nunn, choreographer Gillian Lynne and designer John Napier — reunite to stage TS Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats....
...gangsters (the Old Vic’s gain is Hackney Empire’s loss, as the latter’s Christmas pantomime is once again this year without one of the best dames in the business)....
...‘Kiss Me, Kate’, directed by Trevor Nunn, runs at The Old Vic until March 2 2013; www.oldvictheatre.com , 0844 8717628...
...It does not help that, like many Nunn productions, Kiss me Kate seems to outstay its welcome by about 10 minutes – it is perhaps Nunn’s ingrained meticulous attention to detail....
...Why any talented actor/singer would choose to appear in Kiss Me Kate under Trevor Nunn at the Old Vic rather than don grotesque drag and clown about in Hackney is beyond me, and that’s not sarcasm....
...Since his 2004 Old Vic Hamlet I have been unconvinced by the results of Nunn’s generosity towards younger actors; with the lovers and spirits here, less authenticity in casting might have led to more truth...
...Rob Howell’s set brings unusual depth to the Old Vic stage and sketches in the small town, “the buckle on the Bible belt”, with charming, sepia backdrops on which Nunn creates a series of tableaux....
...Mine were Richard Burton, that fruitcake voice not yet heavily brandied, as Henry V at the Old Vic in the late 1950s; John Kane’s Puck sitting spotlit on the swing in Brook’s life-altering A Midsummer Night...
...In the spring and summer of 2004, he was Laertes in the Trevor Nunn Hamlet at the Old Vic....
...He also compares his play with Shakespeare’s Richard II - just finishing its run in London at The Old Vic, with Kevin Spacey in the lead role directed by Trevor Nunn....
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