And he is tipped to share the stage with Jessie Buckley, who will play Sally Bowles.
This column can reveal that a new production of Cabaret starring the powerhouse duo of Redmayne and Buckley is due to begin performances at the Playhouse Theatre, near the Embankment in London, in early November.
The show is centred on a seedy Berlin after-hours haunt called the Kit Kat Klub, in the last gasp of the Weimar Republic, as the Nazis ascend to power.
Joe Masteroff wove his story about a naïve Englishman who goes to Berlin; a cabaret with a grotesque host; and the joint s star turn, the English Fraulein Sally Bowles from Christopher Isherwood s The Berlin Stories and John Van Druten s play I Am A Camera.
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âRomeo and Julietâ Meets the Hot Vax Summer
A lusty new production is both an enticement and a warning as we tentatively explore intimacy after a year of forced solitude.
Jessie Buckley, left, and Josh OâConnor in the PBS Great Performances production of âRomeo and Juliet,â filmed at the National Theater.Credit.National Theatre/PBS, via Associated Press
Published April 30, 2021Updated May 6, 2021
What will be the idiom, in my modest estimation, to best define our relationship to sex during the Covid-19 pandemic? âStay home if you sick, come over if you thiccâ â so say the boys of Tinder.
Itâs not quite Shakespeare â or is it? Iâm willing to bet that if they lived in 2021, Romeo and Juliet would quickly become fluent in our contemporary language of lust and seduction. After all, sex has always been an element of Shakespeareâs play, though portrayals of it have changed in productions over the last 400 years, depending on
To direct ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ Simon Godwin embraced the motto ‘the obstacle is the way’ Simon Godwin directs Jessie Buckley (Juliet) in “Romeo & Juliet.” Photo by Rob Youngson
The opening words of Simon Godwin’s version of “Romeo & Juliet” are familiar, but the setting is not. An actor still speaks of “Two households, both alike in dignity,” but the lines are delivered not to a packed house, but rather to a group of actors on a bare stage, looking like they’re about to start rehearsal.
For this National Theatre production of Shakespeare s tale of star-crossed lovers, Godwin moved the action to modern times, and he shot, by necessity, inside the Lyttelton Theatre in London.
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