1984 – 1984 Production Blog 3

Monday 28th January   Tonight we are working with Craig Vear, our composer. We are working on the scenes in Room 101, where Winston is tortured.  During these scenes Winston is electrocuted repeatedly.  Craig wants to support these scenes with a sound-scape which will build from Winston simply enduring pain, to a point at which [...]

Uncle Vanya – Review

THE TELEGRAPH  Uncle Vanya: A perfect illusion of life itself  Last Updated: 12:01am GMT 28/01/2008     Charles Spencer reviews Uncle Vanya at the Rose Theatre, Kingston After five years of struggle and setbacks, the new Rose Theatre in Kingston has finally opened its doors to the public with this superb production of Chekhov.   The shell of [...]

Uncle Vanya – Review

THE TIMES – **** Uncle Vanya   Benedict Nightingale at the Rose, Kingston It’s one of the great moments of Chekhovian or, come to that, modern theatre. You might almost say it marks the point at which tragi-comedy replaced both tragedy and comedy as the drama’s dominant genre. Maddened by the selfish brother-in-law who wants [...]

Uncle Vanya – Review

THE GUARDIAN – ****   Michael BillingtonMonday January 28, 2008The Guardian  The theatrical establishment was out in force for the launch of this new building. And rightly so, since the 900-seat, three-tiered Rose is a seductively handsome space, while Peter Hall’s strongly cast production gets to the heart of Chekhov’s tragicomedy. For the Rose to [...]

1984 – 1984 Production Blog 2

Sunday 20th January Today was our first extended rehearsal and it was infinitely more productive.  Having 5 hours of rehearsal rather than two means we get far more done.  Today we are working on Act 1. The cast meet at 10am- all looking a little shell-shocked at having to get up early on a Sunday [...]