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| | | Kit Harington to play Henry V at the Donmar Warehouse | | by Chris Wiegand Jun 30, 2021 | | Game of Thrones star will appear in production focusing on modern political power, part of the London theatre’s reopening season Kit Harington is to star as Shakespeare’s Henry V in a modern-day staging that examines the corrupting influence of power and “leadership in a time of crisis”. The production will be presented in February next year at a newly renovated Donmar Warehouse in London, whose artistic director, Michael Longhurst, has planned a reopening season of plays exploring the individual’s role within society. Harington, best known as Jon Snow in the TV juggernaut Game of Thrones, has already been seen in the realm of “fantasy leadership”, said Longhurst. As Henry V, he will explore “modern political power and the psychology behind that”. The show will be directed by Max Webster, whose acclaimed Life of Pi transfers to the West End later this year. Continue reading... | | | | | Bach & Sons review – study of the man and his music hits a flat note | | by Arifa Akbar Jun 30, 2021 | | Bridge theatre, London
Simon Russell Beale stars in a visually impressive production of Nina Raine’s play that never quite gets off the ground It is tempting to compare Bach & Sons with Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus, as Nina Raine unpicks the difficult personality of another composer with genius in his veins who died, at least as it is portrayed here, with his musical light undimmed but as a failure in other ways. The similarities end there. Raine presents a middle-aged Bach (Simon Russell Beale) with studiousness and teases out power battles between him and his sons Wilhelm (Douggie McMeekin) and Carl (Samuel Blenkin), but her research hangs heavily and leaves the drama often inert, speaking its ideas rather than enacting them. Continue reading... | | | | | |
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