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Ahh, and we have another busy day in history, Before The Lockdown:
It's strange what, if anything, you remember of a work. Sometimes absolutely nothing or, as with this production, an odd detail like that they actually had a working kitchen as part of the set!
Though, to be fair, I do also recall an impressive performance from Clare Higgins as the landlady of the house Vincent van Gogh was staying in. Escaping a traditional Christian Dutch environment to the more progressive and permissive London, Vincent found a muse of sorts, someone who recognised his talent, and also a love interest or two. As I recall it, a gently paced tale of the two lead characters recognising their likely futures one bright and creative, the other returning to a hum-drum day-to-day existence after a brief moment of excitment.
This production was also interesting in terms of the future paths of two of the supporting actors. One, Emily Blunt, has since gone on to international film success and the other, Paul Nicholls, who was establishing himself as a very credible stage actor after TV stardom in EastEnders, would falter a few years later and, while still working, mostly on TV projects, never quite achieved the success that was looking likely.
Ahh, yes, now, this one ... no, I'm sorry, I remember nothing of this production. 😢
The reason for seeing it was that it starred Joe (Joseph) McFadden who was not the 'TV celebrity' he is now but was then building up a solid stage CV off the back of some impressive TV shows and a good mix of theatre roles.
The reviews at the time describe it as:
"Inner city blues. Cheerless council flats. Graphic on-stage sex. Loadsa drink and drugs. Sudden moments of sickening violence. The stench of moral decay and spiritual deprivation."
and
"[the] focus is on the tortured psyche of his hero, Keith. Although a graduate in English, he's got a dead-end job with Directory Enquiries and lives in a high-rise flat looking after his eight-month-old baby as his wife has been institutionalised. So when Keith picks up a snazzy beautician called Shazza, he is looking for a long-term relationship. The problem is that Shazza, who lives in a posh part of town apparently with a drug dealer, just wants a bit of casual sex."
It sounds right up my street!
In Bristol for this one but at a 'new' and unusual venue; The New Room which, rather oddly, is apparently "the oldest Methodist building in the world".
This venerable and historic chapel was a most appropriate location for an unusual production,
Frankenstein: The Play.
This new work based on the novel and performed by students of the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School with Julian Rhind-Tutt as Frankenstein.
This unconventional (and, it has to be said, uncomfortable) venue combined with well designed sound, movement, and lighting to create a quite unique telling of this old tale.
in 2002
My first visit, of admittedly few, to the National Theatre in London was to see Vincent in Brixton at the Cottesloe.
Though, to be fair, I do also recall an impressive performance from Clare Higgins as the landlady of the house Vincent van Gogh was staying in. Escaping a traditional Christian Dutch environment to the more progressive and permissive London, Vincent found a muse of sorts, someone who recognised his talent, and also a love interest or two. As I recall it, a gently paced tale of the two lead characters recognising their likely futures one bright and creative, the other returning to a hum-drum day-to-day existence after a brief moment of excitment.
This production was also interesting in terms of the future paths of two of the supporting actors. One, Emily Blunt, has since gone on to international film success and the other, Paul Nicholls, who was establishing himself as a very credible stage actor after TV stardom in EastEnders, would falter a few years later and, while still working, mostly on TV projects, never quite achieved the success that was looking likely.
in 2006
In London once again, at the Royal Court for Rainbow Kiss.
The reason for seeing it was that it starred Joe (Joseph) McFadden who was not the 'TV celebrity' he is now but was then building up a solid stage CV off the back of some impressive TV shows and a good mix of theatre roles.
The reviews at the time describe it as:
"Inner city blues. Cheerless council flats. Graphic on-stage sex. Loadsa drink and drugs. Sudden moments of sickening violence. The stench of moral decay and spiritual deprivation."
and
"[the] focus is on the tortured psyche of his hero, Keith. Although a graduate in English, he's got a dead-end job with Directory Enquiries and lives in a high-rise flat looking after his eight-month-old baby as his wife has been institutionalised. So when Keith picks up a snazzy beautician called Shazza, he is looking for a long-term relationship. The problem is that Shazza, who lives in a posh part of town apparently with a drug dealer, just wants a bit of casual sex."
It sounds right up my street!
in 2016
This venerable and historic chapel was a most appropriate location for an unusual production,
Frankenstein: The Play.
This new work based on the novel and performed by students of the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School with Julian Rhind-Tutt as Frankenstein.
This unconventional (and, it has to be said, uncomfortable) venue combined with well designed sound, movement, and lighting to create a quite unique telling of this old tale.
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