Author: Michael Hasted

Paul Milton, director of the Everyman Cheltenham production of MRS WARREN’S PROFESSION

Paul Milton, director of the Everyman Cheltenham production of MRS WARREN’S PROFESSION

Posted by | 12 Jun 2015

“It is now our policy to do one major in house production each year. It’s part of our remit with the Arts Council that we should do so. It is Geoffrey Rowe’s [the Everyman CEO] idea, as well as my own, that we want to keep alive that great back catalogue of classic British plays. MRS WARREN’S PROFESSION is one of those great plays which if you don’t bring it out and show it occasionally, will get lost.”

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RIVER’S UP at the Everyman Studio, Cheltenham

Posted by | 10 Jun 2015

“. . . written in 2000 it has a theme that is perhaps more prevalent now than it was then – rising water levels and the subsequent flooding caused, we are led to believe, by global warming. There are serious, relevant issues, especially in the West Country where large swathes were seriously inundated last year. . . . a bickering middle aged couple, live in a house on the banks of the River Severn . . .”

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BALLET BOYZ on tour, Spring 2015

BALLET BOYZ on tour, Spring 2015

Posted by | 29 May 2015

The current tour, theTalent2015 as it is known, comprised two short pieces – The Murmuring and Mesmerics. The former is a sort of West Side Story rumble, all dirty vests and T-shirts but there are elements of Gustave Doré’s prison yard too with the protagonist’s endless circling, punctuated by elegantly choreographed fights, under a harsh white light from above. The incessant, repetitive booming music by Raime rattled every seat in the house and physically connected everyone to the action.

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Major new revival of THE CRUCIBLE this Autumn

Posted by | 28 May 2015

Bristol Old Vic’s Artistic Director Tom Morris is to direct a major new revival of Arthur Miller’s greatest play, on the eve of Bristol Old Vic’s 250th Anniversary in 2016. Since the theatre’s reopening in 2009, Bristol Old Vic has strived to re-energise the great classics, explore and create innovative new work and showcase the brightest of the region’s emerging talent. At the centre of this season, those ambitions are celebrated as we bring Arthur Miller’s ground-breaking The Crucible back to the home of its UK premiere.

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