#Rebecca Frecknall

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New video ft. cast interviews and footage from rehearsals and the show - Cabaret on CBS Sunday morning.

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Toheeb Jimoh as Romeo and Isis Hainsworth as Juliet in the Almeida Theater’s new production of Shakespeare’s tragedy. Credit: Marc Brenner

...this production from Rebecca Frecknall — the buzzy British director whose shows tend to scoop up Olivier awards — treats the often overly familiar play as if it were entirely fresh, and the result is astonishing.

...Her “Romeo and Juliet,” performed without an intermission, begins with the cast clawing feverishly at a stage wall, onto which are projected crucial lines from the prologue. But as if in haste to get straight to the meat of the play, the wall soon collapses to reveal the citizenry of Verona mid-combat. Danger, you feel from the start, is the default mode of a contemporary-seeming milieu amid which Juliet is described by her father as “a stranger in the world.” That is perhaps because she hasn’t yet experienced life’s abrasions; such an awareness will come — and how — with time.

...It’s fascinating, too, to see the balcony scene reconfigured so that Romeo is perched atop a ladder addressing Juliet center-stage, flipping the play’s iconic imagery.

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Red cast is back!!

14 years have passed since that wonderful show (Red a play by John Logan, Michael Grandage director). Today Ken and Rothko meet at the Drama League Awards!!

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Cabaret at the kit kat Club on Broadway.

📷 My screenshots from Cabaret at the kit kat Club NYC's Videos. 1 - 2

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Toheeb Jimoh & Isis Hainsworth | Romeo & Juliet at the Almeida Theatre, directed by Rebecca Frecknall | 6 June - 29 July 2023

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'Cabaret' Revival is an Expressionistic, Hypnotic, Smashing Must-See

Run to this revival and ignore the misguided critics who missed whole swaths of director Rebecca Frechnall's vision. It' spectacular.

Eddie Redmayne and the company of Cabaret (Marc Brenner) Rebecca Frecknall’s darkly spirited and remarkable revival of the amazing John Kander and Fred Ebb musical Cabaret, haunts as it moves with frenzy toward increasingly frightening revelations filled with understated, metaphoric violence. With book by Joe Masteroff, Julia Cheng’s choreography, and Tom Scutt’s breathtaking scenic, theater and…

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Broadway's Latest Revival of Cabaret Circles Berlin Triumphantly

#frontmezzjunkies reviews: #Cabaretmusical @kitkatclubnyc #KanderAndEbb #JoeMasteroff d: #RebeccaFrecknall w/ #EddieRedmayne #GayleRankin #AtoBlanksonWood #HenryGottfried #StevenSkybell and the astonishing #BebeNeuwirth #Cabaret at the #KitKatClubnyc

Eddie Redmayne (center) and the cast of CABARET at the Kit Kat Club at the August Wilson Theatre. Photo by Marc Brenner. The Broadway Theatre Review: Broadway’s Cabaret By Ross “Welcome to Berlin,” we are told, and quite accurately in this deliciously baked wedding cake revival of this iconic musical. Expertly with invention, director Rebecca Frecknall (NYTW’s Sanctuary City) has crafted…

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TOHEEB JIMOH at rehearsals for Rebecca Frecknall’s Romeo and Juliet

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New 💯💯💯

New public appearance of our Aidan with Michael Grandage the Director of The Lieutenant Of Inishmore, at the MGC Futures 10th Anniversary, last Thursday November 7th

Thanks to my friend Isademrio for her 3 edits close up, the two first are improved and the last is just zoomed

Here is a new article about the MGC Futures 10th anniversary, where Aidan attended last Thursday November 7th.

MGCfutures Celebrates 10th Anniversar

by Staff Writer - November 12, 2024

"Michael Grandage’s charity MGCfutures celebrated their 10th anniversary last Thursday 7 November at St. Martin-in-the-Fields in Trafalgar Square.

MGCfutures patrons in attendance were Emma Corrin, Aidan Turner and Dame Penelope Wilton. The programme featured performances and interventions from previous MGCfutures Bursary recipients, such as Rebecca Frecknall, Waleed Akhtar and Isley Lynn. The event was an opportunity for the futuresfamily to meet for the first time and celebrate together with patrons, donors and collaborators of the charity.

The celebrations launched with a speech by Michael Grandage thanking patrons of the charity and welcoming new patrons Penelope Wilton and Luke Evans. The programme continued with a lively and informal discussion about helping those in the industry who need our support, which was hosted by Michael Grandage and featured Director Rebecca Frecknall, Writer/Actor Waleed Akhtar and Writer Isley Lynn. The artists reflected on their careers, how they have dealt with challenges and what their hopes are for the future of theatre.

The Chair of MGCfutures, Lady Hannah Lowy Mitchell took the stage next by thanking donors for their support, highlighting the charity’s need for fundraising and introducing the new futuresfamily Bursary, a bursary funded by previous bursary recipients. MGCfutures Executive Director, Andrew Broadley concluded the speeches by announcing the charity was now accepting new applications, as well as presenting a new online platform for bursary recipients to connect.

The festivities continued with music by 2019 Bursary recipient Chisara Agor from her MGCfutures funded musical The Garden. 2022 Bursary recipient Aran Cherkez closed the party with a DJ set bringing their unique blend of contemporary, house and Middle Eastern music.

Drinks and canapés were served throughout the event, and guests had a chance to connect and celebrate 10 years of MGCfutures supporting the theatre makers of the future."

For your information, Aidan is a patron of this charity since 2018.

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My Thoughts On The Eddie Redmayne Cabaret Performance (as an actress and theatre kid myself)

So, for those of you possibly reading this who are not caught up, this performance at this year's Tonys is getting a lot of attention at the moment, especially if you happen to be on the theatre side of any social media.

The performance is getting all of this attention mainly because of one thing: Eddie Redmayne's portrayal of The Emcee.

If you watch the performance, Eddie moves in an almost puppet like manner, with jerky movements, and a wide smile plastered on his face. He's almost using his movements to make the environment turn haunting.

It's the exact kind of feeling that someone would seek out at the theatre, and yet, it's getting so much hate? Why?

Just from a quick read-through of the Wikipedia page for Cabaret (specifically looking at the Cast and Characters section, though the whole page proved useful here) The Emcee is described as "a leering, ghoulish, flamboyant figure." Seems to me that Eddie echoed this idea quite well with his performance.

So far, I think the only problem with this version of The Emcee is that he is completely lacking the sexual tones that are rather important to the character. I wonder, however, if this is not entirely Eddie's fault.

The rabbit hole that is this performance led me to this review from the New York Times, talking about the entire production that's been running at the August Wilson Theater, not just the televised Tonys performance, or Eddie Redmayne's The Emcee. In the review, it seems like The Emcee was not the only character changed in certain ways, and, although Eddie does talk about how he embodied The Emcee here, I wonder if it was not all him, but also the director (no hate to her at all, she seems wonderful!!). I wonder if, during the revising of The Emcee, director Rebecca Frecknall intentionally opted for the more puppet like, less sexual version of the character, so it flowed better with the show.

My overall opinion of the performance was that it was actually really good, albeit different than what one might expect from Cabaret or The Emcee. Eddie nailed the haunting yet magnetic mannerisms I would want from someone playing The Emcee, and he really took it above and beyond, which I personally believe is what an actor should do.

Either way, this is just my opinion, formed from a Cabaret deep dive, and I (sadly) cannot get to a showing of the musical, so I am forced to read reviews, watch what I can, and base my ideas off of that.

What do y'all think about the performance?

[fuckyeahharrietwalter]

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My gifs from edit Video!!

"Eddie Redmayne is the epitome of generosity as an artist, as an actor, as a person" Gayle Rankin.

Source video Kit Kat Club NYC in iG

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New photo!

📷 Eddie as the Emcee in "Cabaret," during rehearsals for the show in New York this month. Amir Hamja/The New York Times

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[ID A woman with short dark hair (Harriet Walter) looks directly at the camera and reaches out towards the lens with her left hand. She wears a black shirt and the backdrop is orange.]

The House of Bernarda Alba

by Alice Birch after Federico García Lorca a co-production with Playful Productions

16 November 2023 — 6 January 2024

Lyttelton Theatre, National Theatre, South Bank, London SE1 9PX

You bring such scandal to my house In the domain of Bernarda Alba, a daughter who disobeys is no longer a daughter. Forced to live under their mother’s tight grip as they mourn their father’s death, can five sisters survive when young Adela dares for passion and freedom? Olivier Award-winner Harriet Walter (Succession) plays the formidable matriarch, guarding her reputation against the rising tide of her family’s desires in this pitch-black drama exploring the consequences of oppressing women. Following Olivier Award-winning revivals of Cabaret and A Streetcar Named Desire, Rebecca Frecknall makes her directorial debut at the National Theatre with Alice Birch’s (Normal People) radical version of Federico García Lorca’s modern masterpiece.

*brb squeeing and flailing*

(I mean, I can't go, but Oh My Fucking Gods!)

[thejugheadparadox]

review of rebecca frecknall almeida r&j: the west side story dance break stuff was fun. toheeb jimoh is the most charming and endearing man in the entire world. friar lawrence was sooo funny and brilliant. the pacing was completely fucked like it was wayyyyy too fast. too much shakespeare voice. the couplets felt too obvious and clunky honestly the whole play felt like a series of poetry readings which is all well and good until youre watching it for two hours i just didnt vibe w the delivery. i dont think i really have a right to take exception to the vacuum of fictional/theatrical universe setting after my production of lear so i wont speak on it. it was nice i liked the bit w the wall at the start. i think. the costume was cool i didnt get the thesis quite but it was all pretty. mercutio was GREAT, i didnt like the vibe at first but then i warmed to him soooo bad my druggy bisexual beloved. isis hainsworth is very very beautiful and talented and GOD the bit before she killed herself was fucking incredible almost impossible to watch but the direction for juliet was a little one note. james cooney and jamie ballard are obviously my shakespeare guys. the latter particularly slayed. i dont know why the fuck they lit all the candles at the end if they werent going to do complete blackout except for the candles i genuinely felt cheated and beguiled and if its to do with almeida safety rules i. DONT. CAREEEEEE