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6 stories by "James Woodall"

theartsdesk at the Holland Festival by James Woodall

The Holland Festival is one of the greats. It has a British director, the articulate Ruth Mackenzie, formerly of the Chichester Festival and the cultural Olympiad, now into her second year. …

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 2:02am on June 19, 2016☆⚑

King Lear, National Theatre by James Woodall

Sam Mendes thinks King Lear is a bigger play than it is. In a new staging he directs at the National Theatre, he wants it to be about a convulsion of nations, a reordering of borders, bombin…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 3:43am on January 24, 2014☆⚑

The Suit, Young Vic Theatre by James Woodall

Peter Brook is probably at his happiest in Africa. Through his Paris theatre, the Bouffes du Nord, he has long had access to gifted Francophone black African actors. They've always been a si…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 7:07pm on May 27, 2012☆⚑

Bloody Poetry, Jermyn Street Theatre by James Woodall

In opening words cited in the programme for Primavera's new production of Howard Brenton's Bloody Poetry (1984) the playwright states he wanted to remind people of "England's radical, republ…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 9:40pm on February 5, 2012☆⚑

2011: Horrifying Hamlet, Enrapturing Elbow, and Intense Iranian drama by James Woodall

The Barbican as always led the way in London in international theatre programming. The year there ended on a high, with Thomas Ostermeier's Hamlet from the Schaubühne laying down new marker…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 7:10pm on December 27, 2011☆⚑

Woodall's Xmas Test by James Woodall

The famous Siegessäule - the Victory Column, an erect stick of sandstone liquorice with a golden angel on its top - is even trickier. Conceived before Germany was born, it was inaugurated i…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 12:55pm on December 8, 2011☆⚑

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