New musical The White Feather looks (very touchingly) at the plight of soldiers executed for cowardice during the First World War.
The show runs at the Union until 17 October inclusive.
Some of the production shots below.
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Buona sera
Two days, two operas about as radically different as it’s possible to get.
Jonathan Miller’s production of Rossini’s Barber of Seville returns to the English National Opera on Monday, 28 September.
Some shots below.
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Baby did a bad bad thing
Shots from director Dmitri Tcherniakov’s production of Shostakovich’s opera, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk at the English National Opera.
The show opens on Saturday, 26 September and runs for 8 performances.
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Those clowns
Production photos from the AC Group’s wonderful revival of Side by Side by Sondheim at the Jack Studio Theatre.
The show runs to 26 September so if you want to see it you need to be fairly quick.
Regarding Henry
Theatre company Antic Disposition have returned to Temple Church with a new — and rather beautiful — production of Shakespeare’s Henry V, fresh from their tour in France. Some of the production shots below.
The show runs in the legal cathedral to Saturday 5 September.
Incidentally, the photos may give the impression that the play has a Wagnerian running time. I can assure you that it doesn’t and zips along. Because of the venue we shoot the production shots slightly differently from the way they’d be done in a theatre, so I get the rare chance to photograph the show first in daylight and again after dark.
Always take the feather with you
When we sat down to talk about the poster for World War I musical The White Feather (coming to the Union in September), we knew three things.
It was going to have a feather in it. It was going to be shot in studio. And we were going to shoot it for real.
Well, sometimes photoshoots evolve as they go on.
As star Abigail Matthews looked gamefully morose-but-content-but-triumphant — which, in case it’s not obvious, isn’t the easiest look to pull off — we tried holding a feather in front of her on a wire, having her throw feathers at herself and flinging feathers at her via a wind machine. But the feathers just wouldn’t go where we needed them and it all risked looking like a comedic farce or — the horror — a little bit arty.
I’m a great believer in doing things practically when you can. But, when you can’t, there’s always computer magic.
So what we ended up doing was showering feathers from the ceiling and taking what we’d intended — Abigail staring at a single feather — and turning it into a feather flock.
All against the backdrop of two skies from opposite sides of the world: Te Anau in New Zealand and the Pointe du Grouin in Brittany.
Theatre. Quickly.
I was at the Lost Theatre over the weekend to shoot the 1448 London festival.
Billed as the world’s quickest theatre festival, the idea of 1448 is for writers, actors, designers and directors to devise and stage 14 brand new plays in the space of 48 hours.
Pushing everyone’s innovation to the max, the end results were brilliant.
The world changed
Production shots from the beautiful production of the first AIDS play, As Is, now playing at Trafalgar Studios.
They’re back…
No sooner do I post about the original run of As Is at the Finborough Theatre than it resurrects for a rather special transfer to Trafalgar Studios.
Poster and rehearsal shots from the forthcoming production, plus a bonus shot of Mr Steven Webb departing just a fraction from the brief during the poster shoot…
Oestrogen
As end-of-year shows for an all-female cast go, they don’t come much more tense (think of an elastic band that’s just about to split and smack you in the face) than Federico García Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba.
Shots from the Court Theatre Training Company’s take on a tale of matriarchs, repression, men unseen and pride at the Courtyard Theatre. Shot through gauze, no less…
