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...When Ruth Wilson steps on stage at London’s Young Vic Theatre next week, she will have no idea who her co-stars are....
...The Second Woman Young Vic, London When Ruth Wilson took to the Young Vic stage for a nine-minute standing ovation at the end of The Second Woman last Saturday afternoon, she was wearing slippers....
...I believe the better days are ahead,” Vic Abate, chief executive of the wind business at GE Vernova, told investors in New York yesterday....
...Jetty Road Brewery 12-14 Brasser Avenue, Dromana, VIC 3936 It is not all wine and hedonism on the peninsula. There is beer too....
...Gimlet at Cavendish House 33 RUSSELL STREET, MELBOURNE, VIC 3000 Good for: Being seen in a glamorous setting Not so good for: A cheap and low-key get-together FYI: Ranked 84 in the world’s top restaurants...
...Jitney Old Vic, London Three plays; three tight-knit groups of people banging up against the social barriers around them....
...There have also been distilled domestic dramas: Hedda Gabler starring Ruth Wilson, and the tough yet unbearably moving Who Killed My Father?, based on Édouard Louis’s autobiographical novel....
...Reade’s adaptation, directed by Philip Wilson, skilfully catches the strange dislocation of grief....
...The 47th Old Vic, London What wouldn’t we give to have Shakespeare’s voice on the seismic power struggles currently playing out on the national and international stage?...
...But all that changes when you learn that the woman is Ruth Wilson, the play is Jean Cocteau’s The Human Voice (La Voix humaine) and the director is the celebrated Ivo van Hove....
...To April 18, ngv.vic.gov.au...
...It’s a staging distinguished, however, by a superb and moving performance from Lydia Wilson....
...Old Vic, London oldvictheatre.com Dick Whittington and his Cat One of the best-loved pantomimes in town, the Hackney Empire’s Christmas show is always a blast....
...Glenda Jackson reprises the central role, which she first played in a separate production at London’s Old Vic in 2016. Ruth Wilson plays both Lear’s all-too-devoted daughter Cordelia and the Fool....
...But there are those who question the validity of refocusing classic plays, not least the seminal playwright August Wilson....
...Demetrius (Oliver Alvin-Wilson) treats Helena (Anna Madeley) so roughly that when he finally declares that he wants her back, she stares at him in shock....
...In Wils Wilson’s droll production, Marek Larwood’s Bear, with his shambling gait and doleful melting features, is beautifully matched by Steven Webb’s perky, thieving Rabbit....
...royalcourttheatre.com, 020 7565 5000, runs to July 18 Krapp’s Last Tape, Barbican, London Renowned director Robert Wilson appears in his own production of Beckett’s haunting monologue about age and memory...
...Since venturing into straight drama with Othello, Henry has cemented his reputation as a serious actor with a towering performance in August Wilson’s Fences....
...“When I was a student I was intoxicated by the work of Robert Lepage, Robert Wilson, Pina Bausch. That was the work we absorbed and aspired to....
...Will Adamsdale’s piece, a co-production with Bristol Old Vic, is therefore most uncharacteristic....
...He is likely to direct Fences, the August Wilson play that he starred in a few years ago on Broadway, before undertaking a second stab at Raisin....
...London audiences can see it at the Young Vic in September. Another sideshow presentation offered a delicious moment of dramatic irony the afternoon I saw it....
...“At the beginning of the play she’s longing for something she doesn’t have,” says Wilson. “And I think it’s probably a mother....
...Lydia Wilson has a gamine beauty and her Annabella is half-aware of her power: she pitches beautifully the mix of innocence, sensuality and curiosity....
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