NEWS: Spring Awakening, Almeida (2021)
Spring Awakening to play at the Almeida Theatre from 7th December 2021 The Almeida Theatre announces the full cast for Rupert Goold’s revival of the award-winning musical Spring Awakening. Amara…
Spring Awakening to play at the Almeida Theatre from 7th December 2021 The Almeida Theatre announces the full cast for Rupert Goold’s revival of the award-winning musical Spring Awakening. Amara…
What Yaël Farber has constructed is a Macbeth full of action and visual, visceral excitement. Still moments are rare as there is almost always something to watch. Along with the audience are the three Weird Sisters (Diane Fletcher, Valerie Lilley and Maureen Hibbert) who watch from the back of the smoky stage throughout the play when they are not speaking their ominously accurate predictions. The programme explains that the histories of the Wyrd sisters "are a reformed patchwork of myths and narratives…. who hold all destinies in their hands."
Adrian Edmondson's chilling and slyly humorous, camp (no, not the concentration camp but a camp manner) commandant is called Grandma because he sits in a corner knitting in the evenings. His real name is unknown. Edmondson's performance, full of easy patter, is sinister and makes you shudder as you laugh, a not entirely comfortable feeling.