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News: Pubs and theatre. An age-old pairing.
This exciting project will no doubt resonate with anyone that has ever stepped into a pub, so this February, grab your pint of Drunken Nights and witness something completely original and unique.
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News: The 28 Day Project launches wonderful opportunities
The 28 Day Project is an exciting initiative offering emerging talent a step into the film business.
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Have you got the Star Wars X Factor?
Thousands turned away at open auditions after standing in the rain for hours.
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News: TheatreCraft returns to help young people’s backstage careers
The 8th annual event returns to the Royal Opera House later this month.
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BLOG: Theatre: the best casino shows around the world
Casinos around the world offer some of the best theatrical entertainment you can find.
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BLOG: 5 Best Actors in Superhero Cinema
Is “superhero” acting any less challenging?
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Blog: Films to study for inspiration
Watching great actors can often inform your own work.
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Blog: Shakespeare experimenting with the limits of contemporary drama
Briony Rawle heads to Yorkshire and takes a closer look at Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale.
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Review: Bat Boy, Southwark Playhouse ✭✭✭
A campy fun musical with bite screams Douglas Mayo.
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Review: Visitors, Arcola Theatre ✭✭✭✭
Barney Norris first full-length play is an exquisitely written examination of love and loss, writes Alex Delaney.
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Review: 1984, Almeida Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
This fresh vision of 1984 feels like a rediscovery of Orwell’s dystopia, writes Sophia Longhi.
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Review: Secret Theatre – Show 4, Lyric Hammersmith ✭✭✭✭
This review comes with a capitalised, emboldened and even italicised, SPOILER ALERT. That should do, writes Briony Rawle.
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Blog: Uncovering The Faction #12
A tear, a wave of a white handkerchief – The Faction’s train pulls out of the station. We stand and salute their magnificent achievement.
Add a commentGareth Fordred is a founding member of the faction theatre co. In the 2012 Rep Season he played Malvolio in Twelfth Night, Leicester in Mary Stuart and a reveller in Miss Julie.
Uncovering The Faction #12: Over And Out
‘‘Farewell’
This is my last blog: signing out, moving on, selling up. Must skidaddle to pastures verdant, but before I do…
It’s been great writing these blogs, and for whoever may have been reading them: farewell and all the best for the future.
Cue the dancing girls and boys, cue the Victorian professional mourners in black, cue the street procession, the dancing monkeys, performing seals and the fireworks – The Faction Rep Season 2012 is at an end!
It’s a bit odd thinking this is the twelfth of these I’ll have spewed out on a weekly basis from when we started. It only seems like yesterday that I stepped off a plane from snowy Munich, fresh from touring, to step into faction-land once more. Ahhhh….
The evil goblin overlords wish me to plug our future happenings. And as they have their scaly clawed fingers pressed on my mind-control device: I must obey.
It’s going to be an exciting 2012 and there will be lots happening for The Faction, so here we are!
• Brockwell Park Open Air 2012 shows will be Othello and A Midsummer Night’s Dream in rep. A cast of 8 will tackle both plays in the faction’s distinctive style. For dates check the company website.
• Mary Stuart, our 4 Star sell-out success here at The New Diorama will be returning from 4-22 September 2012. So, for anyone who didn’t manage to catch us this time, round, book now to avoid disappointment, as the run is already selling.
• Watch the website for announcements for our 2013 happenings, the next Rep Season in whatever incarnation it comes into being.
To keep in touch with us in the future, join our mailing list for updates (not of the annoying and too- frequent variety, don’t worry)
“Although they may go under the name of Faction, they display a unity that augurs well
for their future”
– 4 Stars, The Guardian.Over and out,
Gareth.
Published on February 20, 2012 · Filed under: Blogs, Featured; Tagged as: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Gareth Fordred, Mark Leipacher, Mary Stuart, Miss Julie, New Diorama, Othello, The Faction, Twelfth Night