Tonight, I watched a screening of the National Theatre production of „Frankenstein“ at a local cinema. It starred Benedict Cumberbatch as the Creature and Jonny Lee Miller as Victor Frankenstein and was directed by Danny Boyle ( Read more... )

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If you ever get the chance to see Stephen Dillane on stage, preferably in a play by Shakespeare, go and see him. I saw him in The Tempest the other day, and was more than a little bit impressed. I'm probably unfair towards other actors I saw in Shakespearean roles in the past, but I'm tempted to say that I've never heard such an excellent diction ( Read more... )

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At least, that's what both the actors and the audience do when they produce respectivly watch Othello, director Peter Sellars said afterwards in a Q&A ( Read more... )

I went to see William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale. I just can't resist if it's Shakespeare and if it's an English-speaking production performed somewhere in the vicinity. Apart from that it meant an opportunity to see Simon Russell Beale again, whom I had seen as Guildenstern in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead 13 years ago ( Read more... )

On Tuesday, I went to London for one day in order to see Alan Rickman's Creditors at the Donmar Warehouse. Of course, I had read all the glowing reviews beforehand and was full of high expectation. And it didn't help that I passed an Evening Standard seller in the afternoon, who advertised the latest edition by putting up a sign that announced that ( Read more... )

I went to a public rehearsal of Bernard-Marie Koltès' play Roberto Zucco tonight. The premiere will be in a few days only. I thought the theatre company had organised it just for the fun of its audience, but as it turned out we were used as guinea pigs ( Read more... )

This past weekend I saw Sweeney Todd again, but this time on stage. It was a German-speaking production, but I thought it worked very well. Many of the jokes and puns had been translated, respectively the translator had found similar ones that exist in German ( Read more... )

When I first came across Alan Rickman's essay about playing Jaques in As You Like It, I thought it was interesting to see how an actor approaches and interprets a character, but I also had to realise that, because I wasn't familiar with the play, I had only a vague idea what he was actually talking about. I comforted myself with the thought that ( Read more... )