The Curve in Leicester s five-star
Sunset Boulevard will be released once again to support the Andy Nairn Bursaries in Technical Theatre.
The bursary, set up to commemorate Curve s former head of production (who sadly passed award in November 2020), provides accessible training opportunities for aspiring theatre technicians from challenging socio-economic and diverse backgrounds.
Sunset Boulevard was the last show Nairn was able to work on before his passing. Curve s chief executive Chris Stafford and artistic director Nikolai Foster said: We are thrilled the gates of Paramount will open once again before we start to emerge from lockdown. What makes this screening even more special is that when you buy a ticket, you will be supporting The Andy Nairn Bursaries in Technical Theatre, named in honour of Andy Nairn, our much missed Head of Production, who passed away last November aged just 34 years old.
Leicester theatre Curve extends run of Sunset Boulevard - at Home due to popular demand
It features original cast members including Ria Jones and Danny Mac
14:26, 8 JAN 2021
Ria Jones as Norma Desmond and Danny Mac as Joe Gillis
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Sunset Boulevard in Concert at Home | Review
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December 23, 2020 Sunset Boulevard – Ria Jones (Norma Desmond) – Photography by Marc Brenner
I couldn’t help raising a smile last year when the Almeida Theatre in London put on
The Duchess of Malfi, a Jacobean revenge tragedy, as their Christmas production. The Curve Theatre, or simply Curve to its staff and regular patrons, always leaves it to other venues in Leicestershire to hold pantomimes, though they have in recent years gone for seasonal musicals like
White Christmas and
Scrooge the Musical. It makes their choice to put on Sunset Boulevard an unusual one for a Christmas show – although there are New Year’s Eve celebrations as part of the narrative, it’s still fundamentally rather sad. If there’s any humour to be found in it, it’s dark, which makes this production is a remarkably relevant one for our times.