Super-saturated publicity and rehearsal shots for playwright Lee Tannen’s I Loved Lucy, based on his memoir of his time with Lucille Ball.
The show, which comes to the Jermyn Street Theatre next month, stars Sandra Dickinson and Matthew Bunn, and promises to be a blast.
Production shots from the beautiful production of Brecht’s Fear and Misery of the Third Reich at the Union Theatre.
The show runs to 30 January.
I can’t think of many better ways to spend New Year’s Day than shooting a show as sumptuous as Grey Gardens.
The legendary Sheila Hancock and Jenna Russell star and the show runs to 6 February at the Southwark Playhouse.
Antic Disposition are back at the Middle Temple Hall with their ebullient take on Dickens’s Christmas Carol.
David Burt returns as Scrooge (of the gruel and the grumpiness) and Once star David Hunter has his way with Bob Cratchit.
The show only runs to 30 December so if you’re intending to see it book a ticket quickly!
Oh… It’s Christmas Eve, so (ahem), God Bless Us, Every One!
Production shots from the wonderfully warm-hearted family show The Tinderbox at the Charing Cross Theatre.
The show runs to 3 January.
So last week I had the pleasure of shooting Sheila Hancock and Jenna Russell for Grey Gardens at the Southwark Playhouse. But with a twist.
The brief was to make it all look like bad 70s snaps. Well, assuming your name’s not Juergen Teller, that’s quite a big ask. The risk is that you don’t just end up with things that look deliberately like bad 70s snaps, you might actually end up with plain bad snaps.
So I got myself a headache, popped a couple of stomach ulcers, worked out what I was going to do, and prayed.
It turned out I didn’t need to. A phenomenal location (Asylum in SE15), amazing wigs, hair and makeup from Diana Estrada, some equally amazing costume design by Jonathan Lipman, and, most of all, two amazing actresses who gamely did in seconds what most people can never do — namely, pull poses and make it look so spontaneous they don’t look like poses at all — did all the work for me.
An utterly brilliant shoot.
I’m having a puns week, so you’ll forgive the title.
Antic Disposition’s wonderful Christmas Carol returns to the Middle Temple Hall next month for a strictly limited run from 22 to 30 December.
We pottered around the Temple with stars David Burt and David Hunter earlier this month in search of climes Dickensian…
Production shots from the Arts Theatre transfer of the wonderful Lovesong of the Electric Bear.
The show, which charts the storied life of Alan Turing with the assistance of his teddy bear, is well worth seeing but if you’re going to go you need to hurry: the last performance is on Saturday.
Production shots from Encounter at the Above the Stag theatre.
Set in a beautiful little train station (underneath the real-life Vauxhall station), the production looks at what might have happened in 1945 if two chaps met fleetingly and found themselves in love.
Shots from play The Sweethearts, a hilarious (and simultaneously sobering, believe it or not) examination of what happens when a washed up girl band rocks up in Afghanistan to perform for the troops.
The show, at the Finborough, runs to 17 October.
