Sir John Falstaff is probably the Bard’s greatest comic creation and after playing a supporting character in Henry IV Pt 1, followed by a guest appearance in Pt 2 he now gets his own show. His farewell appearance is off-stage in Henry V. Mr Rutter’s Sir John is a very coarse and vulgar fellow for whom it is difficult to have much sympathy. His quest to woo two married women backfires and he finds himself in the proverbial.
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appears in shows all around the country and abroad as well as running her our company, Missy Malone & Friends. She talks exclusively to StageTalk Magazine about her life and art.
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The RSC’s new Hamlet is patently original. Gone are the cliché blond Nordic tresses so favoured by Olivier and others, gone are the wind-swept rocky battlements of Elsinore and in are the brightly coloured Afro fabrics and jungle drums of medieval Denmark’s first black royal family . . . I really liked Cyril Ni as the obsequious Polonius, always eager to please and smooth the troubled waters but, to my mind, the best performance came from Natalie Simpson as his daughter Ophelia.
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Don Giovanni is one of the opera canon’s most dramatic works. You have hardly got your hat and coat off and taken your seat before there is a rape and a murder. It has one of opera’s most dastardly villains whose sole raison d’être is to lay as many women as possible in the shortest possible time and to hell with the consequences . . . All in all a hugely satisfying evening. English Touring Opera is a joy to behold and I genuinely look forward to every visit.
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In this exclusive StageTalk Magazine video interview with Michael Hasted, Kenneth Cranham talks about his role in Florian Zeller’s acclaimed play THE FATHER, for which he won the Olivier Best Actor Award 2016
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