is the Creative Director of the Everyman Theatre in Cheltenham. The theatre’s new in-house production, Kay Mellor’s A PASSIONATE WOMAN starring Liza Goddard, opens this week prior to a nationwide tour. Here Paul talks to StageTalk Magazine editor Michael Hasted about the production . . .
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In a career spanning six decades Audrey was equally adept at comedy and serious drama, becoming a regular and popular character actor in rep at Bath’s Theatre Royal, Birmingham Rep, Cheltenham Everyman and Bristol Old Vic. In the 1980s, she worked at the National Theatre and appeared, in 1982 with Peter O’Toole in Man and Superman before making her final stage appearance at the Bristol Old Vic in 1985.
Read MoreStageTalk Magazine is three years old. Since our launch in 1st December 2013 our eighteen reviewers have seen over 1000 shows ranging from opera to farce, from ballet to burlesque. At the time of writing we have received 266,530 hits. We have reviewed productions in major venues seating nearly two thousand people, to tiny fifty-seat studio theatres . . .
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This year’s panto, Jack and the Beanstalk, is the current one of the rotating cycle of five titles which the Everyman produces and is much better than the previous one in 2011. What I like about Phil Clark’s pantomimes is that he eschews the tried (tired?) and tested formula of employing some obscure celebrity off the telly that no-one has ever heard of to appear in his shows in favour of real actors – and his shows are all the better for that.
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There is a certain irony in that at the same time as Shakespeare’s Globe in London has parted company with its new(ish) director Emma Rice for being too technical, too untraditional and too innovative, that other great bastion dedicated to the works of the Bard, the Royal Shakespeare Company, has mounted a production that is, at times, more like a video game than a stage play.
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