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The Royal Court – Jerwood Theatre Downstairs

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

Three new plays have been announced in the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs at Royal Court, concluding with the first ever Christmas show at the Sloane Square venue – Get Santa! Theatre tickets for the season are on sale now.

First in the season of plays will be Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris. Dominic Cooke directs this new play, which will run in the Jerwood Theatre downstairs for one month from 2nd September. Clybourne Park follows two generations battling the attitudes of a local community whilst trying to buy property. The play is inspired by A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry.

Following Clybourne Park is Nina Raine’s Tribes, which sees the return of director Roger Mitchell to the venue after a break of 15 years. Tribe’s follows the struggle of a deaf young man trying to be heard in what promises to be a “fascinating dissection of belonging, family and the limitations of communication”

The Jerwood Theatre downstairs will round off the season with Get Santa! A “magical, musical and downright mischievous” play by Anthony Neilson and Nick Powell. Every year Holly makes a special wish to Santa – to see her real father, but instead all she gets is useless presents. It’s Christmas Eve and this year she is going to take matters into her own hands. Get Santa opens on 1st December and runs until 15th January.

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Anne Boleyn

Saturday, July 24th, 2010

The full cast has now been announced for Howard Brenton’s Anne Boleyn playing at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre this summer. The show, which will be the world premiere of this new play, opens on 24 July for previews and runs until 21 August 2010. Theatre tickets are on sale now.

Miranda Raison was previously announced in the title role, and will now be joined by Anthony Howell playing King Henry VIII, and James Garnon as King James I. Also appearing are John Cummins, Michael Bertenshaw, Sam Cox, Ben Deery, Naomi Cranston, Mary Doherty, Will Featherstone, John Dougall, Colin Hurley, Peter Hamilton Dyer, Amanda Lawrence and Dickon Tyrell. John Dove will direct the show, which is designed by Michael Taylor.

Anne Boleyn was Henry VIII’s second wife, a passionate woman in love with both the King and politics. Howard Brenton has said that he “sets out to challenge the traditional assumptions of Anne Boleyn as a pawn manipulated by an ambitious father or as a sexually licentious predator, even a witch. Here, Brenton puts a very different Anne on the Globe stage – a witty and confident woman with controversial religious ideals, taking on the vicious world of Tudor politics.”

Currently showing is Henry IV Part One, closely followed by Henry IV Part Two opening on 3 July. The plays form part of the Kings And Rogues season at the Globe, which will also include the Merry Wives of Windsor and new play Bedlam by Nell Leyshon.

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London Coliseum

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

For the ultimate operatic experience, the London Coliseum is the city’s highly renowned venue for spell bounding Opera. Currently running at the central London location is Idomeneo, the first mature masterpiece by Mozart. Theatre tickets for Idomeneo at the London Coliseum are on sale now.

Idomeneo is conducted by English National Opera’s Edward Gardner, winner of the Laurence Olivier award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera.

Set in Crete in around 1200 BC, the opera is set amongst the backdrop of the Trojan War. Idomeneo has been away for many years, during which time his son, Idamante has ruled in his absence. The mythological plot purveys a story of life and death and the nature of choices and consequences in war.

The cast of Idomeneo are amongst the best of Britain’s operatic talent, including Robert Murray, Emma Bell, Paul Nilon and Sarah Tynan. Libretto is by Varesco after Danchet.

Katie Mitchell directs this deeply felt masterpiece, following the success of her other Trojan War epic, Purcell’s Dido And Aeneas, which she adapted for the Young Vic in 2009. Other London credits include The Cat In The hat, Waves, Pains Of Youth and Some Trace Of Her for the National Theatre, and The City and Forty Winks at the Royal Court.

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The Wizard Of Oz

Thursday, June 10th, 2010

The Wizard Of Oz

Following the BBC Television competition Over the Rainbow, Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Wizard of Oz is due to open at the London Palladium in March 2011. Theatre tickets for the show are available to book now.

Based on L. Frank Baum’s 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Baum himself adapted the script for the stage in 1903 before it was made into the hugely successful 1939 film starring Judy Garland. The stage musical is adapted by John Cane with music and lyrics by EY Harburg and Harold Arlen, and enjoyed its first premiere at the Barbican in 1987 by the RSC starring Imelda Staunton.

Jeremy Sams is expected to direct this latest revival, with choreography from former Strictly Come Dancing judge Arlene Phillips. Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber and Glenn Slater are to write some new songs for the musical.

The television judging format follows How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? where Connie Fisher was discovered for lead role in The Sound of Music, Any Dream Will Do which launched Lee Mead in the lead role for Joseph and The Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat and I’d Do Anything where Jodie Prenger won the role of Nancy on Oliver! The Search for Dorothy and her dog Toto began in March this year, with the winner Danielle Hope being cast as Dorothy and the mini Shnauzer Dangerous Dave being cast as Toto.

The Wizard if Oz follows Sister Act, currently playing at The Palladium Theatre in London until January 2011.

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