Alexej Ignatow, the producer of the Russian State Ballet and Opera House, talks about bringing Russian companies over to tour in the UK. CARMEN will be playing the Everyman in Cheltenham on 23rd & 24th September.
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This year’s main in-house production at the Cheltenham Everyman is again one of local interest. It marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Beatrix Potter with a new and original musical version of THE TAILOR OF GLOUCESTER. The play has been written by the Everyman’s creative director, Paul Milton and opens on 3rd August
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Kenneth Cranham had a long working relation- ship with Harold Pinter, appearing in six of his plays. In this video interview recorded when he was appearing in THE FATHER he talks with Michael Hasted about his association with the playwright and some of the productions in which he appeared, including THE BIRTHDAY PARTY.
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The two plays are ideally matched, as any double-bill should be, and both deal with relationships and the pitfall of marriage. First up was You Were After Poetry by Steve Bloomer which relates the break-up of a relationship soon after the word “marriage” is spoken. The young couple are lounging in bed on a Sunday morning, as one does, but it all goes wrong as soon as any sort of commitment by the woman is required.
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The mostly female, near capacity enthusiastic house last night for BalletBoyz confirmed the proposition that quality will out. On paper, the idea of an all-male ballet company doesn’t, or at least didn’t, seem very attractive – ballet without tutus, white tights and hair in a bun was not something that was going to have mass appeal . . . Their work is original, creative and imaginative and above all, cultured and immaculately executed. I find it impossible to fault BalletBoyz – I love ‘em.
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