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Dateline:
28th September, 2003
Messiah Comes
to the West End at Last
Steven Berkoff's Messiah is finally to receive its West End premiere,
more than three years after it was first produced at the 2000 Edinburgh
Fringe. It will play at the Old Vic for, initially, a six week season
beginning on 24th November. It was originally lanned to go into the
West End in the autumn of 2000, but the plans fell through, with Berkoff
claiming to have been "betrayed" by the un-named venue.
Orwell and Bieito
at Leeds
The West Yorkshire Playhouse is to present a stage version of George
Orwell's Homage to Catalonia, to open on 15th March next year.
It will be a co-production with Calixto
Bieito and the Teatro Romeo (Barcelona). The production will be
part of a season celebrating the centenary of Orwell's birth, which
will include the Northern Stage Ensemble's production of Animal Farm.
The Leeds theatre's new season also includes Alan Bennett's The
Madness of King George III, starring Michael Pennington and directed
by Rachel Kavanaugh, and Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge,
both co-productions with Birminham Rep, as well as in-house productions
of The Wind in the Willows, Two Tracks and Text Me, Medea,
Blues in the Night and the Kneehigh/BAC co-production of The
Wooden Frock.
Scottish NT Will Be
on Housing Estate
The Scottish National Theatre is to be sited on Easterhouse, a Glasgow
housing estate one notorious for its drug and crime problems. Scottish
Culture Minister Frank McAveety told MSPs, "The responsibility
of the national theatre will be towards the people of Scotland; it is
their theatre. It is about making the arts relevant to our communities
and the people that live there. It is therefore fitting that Easterhouse,
which has demonstrated a commitment to the arts as part of the area’s
regeneration, should be our preferred location for the administrative
office."
It will be based in a "campus", due to open in 2005, which
will comprise Easterhouse arts factory, Easterhouse swimming pool, and
John Wheatley College. The Arts Factory itself will have a performance
space, a library, rehearsal rooms, darkrooms, and a centre for lifelong
learning. The whole project has been made possible by European and National
Lottery funding. It is expected that the SNT will be houses in temporary
premises in the city Centre until the Easterhouse development is completed.
The proposals were welcomed by MSPs of all parties, local communityy
leaders and theatre professionals across Scotland.
ACW Feasibility Study
The Arts Council of Wales is to hold a feasibility study into the possible
setting up of Arts marketing consortia for the North and Mid-Wales areas:
Powys, Ceredigion, Denbighshire, Wrexham, Flintshire, Conwy, Gwynedd
and Anglesey. Meetings and telephone consultations, in both Welsh and
English, will continue to 10th October and workshops will be held in
Octiber and November. Anyone wishing to join in the consultation should
contact Angela Tillcock, Arts Consultant, Unit 2, Sbectrwm, Bwlch Road,
Fairwater, Cardiff CF5 3EF (tel: 029 2056 1600).
New Poliakoff Opening
Soon
Stephen Poliakoff's new play Sweet Panic will open at the Duke
of York's on 6th November (previews from 29th October). The cast will
include Victoria Hamilton, Jane Horrocks, John Gordon Sinclair, Daniela
Denby Ashe, Rupert Evans and Phillip Bird.
Bogdanov Celebrates
Thomas
Michael Bogdanov's Wales Theatre Company is to celebrate the anniversary
of the fiftieth anniversary of Dylan Thomas' death with a new production
of Under Milk Wood which will play at the Swansea Grand from
8th to 18th October, before moving on to the New Theatre, Cardiff, and
then undertaking a national tour throught 2004. It will star Mathew
Rhys as the First Voice.
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