Round-up of news and treats and other interesting things


An amusing tidbit from Paul Chahidi's Twitter takeover for the Donmar Warehouse, promoting his show Limehouse and the commitment its actors have to the art of the warm-up.
Warm up. #Limehouse pic.twitter.com/zXrDhuagNt
— Paul Chahidi (@PaulChahidi) March 25, 2017





Fresh from taking the Barbican by storm (again) with Roman Tragedies, Ivo van Hove and Toneelgroep Amsterdam will be returning to London next month with a version of Luchino Visconti's 1943 film Obsession. Joining Jude Law in the multinational cast is the fantastic Dutch actress Halina Reijn, Chuk Iwuji, Gijs Scholten van Aschat, Robert De Hoog, and Aysha Kala, Rehearsal pics above by Jan Versweyveld and an excellent feature on the show here from Sarah Hemming.


Something lovely from the beginning of the week
What better way to welcome the spring equinox than with @MissDumezweni's beautiful reading of Wordsworth's I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud. pic.twitter.com/bJvJmQN8ar
— BBC Radio 4 Today (@BBCr4today) March 20, 2017

Hampstead Theatre announced the casting for the world premiere of Stephen Brown’s play Occupational Hazards, which is based on Rory Stewart’s critically acclaimed memoir of the same name.

Directed by Simon Godwin, this new play tells an extraordinary story about the moral conflicts, the dangers and the comic absurdities inherent in any foreign occupation.Henry Lloyd-Hughes will play the role of Rory having last been seen at Hampstead Theatre in Nina Raine’s Tiger Country in 2011.

The cast also includes Nezar Alderazi, Waj Ali, Silas Carson, Amy Cudden, Vangelis Christodoulou, Vincent Ebrahim, Aishya Hart, John Mackay and Johndeep More.




Manchester's HOME is delighted to announce the first UK revival of Martin Sherman’s award-winning Rose, which premiered at the National Theatre in London in 1999. Directed by Richard Beecham, Janet Suzman takes on the role of the eponymous Rose. As the current refugee crisis engulfs Europe, as America closes its doors to refugees, and as racism, xenophobia and nationalism are resurgent across the globe, this revival of Rose is being touted as extremely topical and timely.

Janet Suzman commented:
“This anarchic, agnostic tearaway got to me when I read Martin Sherman’s terrific play. Rose’s ironical self-awareness, her independence of spirit, her fierce instinct for survival is the story we all want to hear about the human spirit at its bravest. In the end she finds a moral purpose to a life forged in an immoral world. I salute Rose and her like.”
Richard Beecham added: 
Rose strikes me as a play for our times. Written on the cusp of the millennium as an epitaph to the 20th century, this play about the refugee experience, about anti-Semitism and xenophobia, about the conflict in Israel/Palestine, about America as a safe haven for the persecuted, looks forward to our 21st century world in a frighteningly prescient way. It does so with real insight, bravura storytelling and a mordant sense of humour and I am delighted to be working with the extraordinary Janet Suzman to bring Rose alive for audiences today.”
The production runs Thu 25 May – Sat 10 June

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