Carey Mulligan performs a Dennis Kelly script, under Lyndsey Turner’s direction. I’ll just let that sentence sink in for a moment. It sounds brilliant, right? Well it is, and this dream offering from the Royal Court does not disappoint.
Carey Mulligan performs a Dennis Kelly script, under Lyndsey Turner’s direction. I’ll just let that sentence sink in for a moment. It sounds brilliant, right? Well it is, and this dream offering from the Royal Court does not disappoint.
“Being out here. Sometimes there isn’t a lonliness like it. So be brave. If you can.”
So speaks Mick, the mentally fading grandfather of an isolated farming family facing cruel circumstances in Simon Longman‘s Gundog at The Royal Court theatre upstairs.
Will they? Won’t they? The drama surrounding the announcement, subsequent cancelling and then re-commissioning of the Royal Court’s revival of Andrea Dunbar’s seminal play Rita, Sue and Bob Too has been the theatre talk of the season.
Time ticks slowly with anticipation in Guillermo Calderón’s four hander B, translated for the Royal Court by William Gregory. Anarchists Alejandra (Danusia Samal) and Marcela (Aimée-Ffion Edwards) just want to give themselves a voice, but experienced pro José Miguel (Paul Kaye) has other ideas.
A tangled set of wires, some of which are exposed dangle down, knotted wires lay on the floor and a broken bicycle hangs from the ceiling, a simple yet effective design by Gary McCann. Gary Owen’s new play, Killology asks the pressing question: do violent video games catalyse violence in real life?
Suspense is created and built from the beginning when Father Horrigan is being questioned in between two men; their positions suggesting this is more than a mere conversation.
Simon Stephens and Imogen Knight have teamed up once more to mix dance with theatre. Call me simple but a production titled Nuclear War does invoke expectations that there will be some global crisis in its make-up. This is not the case with Stephens’ latest piece.
A Profoundly Affectionate, Passionate Devotion to Someone will be showing at the Royal Court Theatre from Tuesday 28th February until Saturday 1st April. Watch the trailer here…
Following its premiere last year, Caryl Churchill’s critically-acclaimed play returns for a short run to the Royal Court Theatre before going on tour.
Programmed as part of the 60th anniversary season of new writing at the Royal Court Theatre, Lucy Kirkwood’s new play asks important questions about the responsibility of the older generation towards the young.