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Easter Film Hop & Midsummer Night Screen, London
No, there's nothing wrong with your calendar. This was supposed to happen at Easter, but being outdoors and in Britain, it was inevitably rained, hailed and snowed well and truly off. So here it is again: three days of dance-related screenings in a converted Shoreditch car park, with the emphasis on standing up and shakin' rather than sitting down and nodding. On Friday it's a "concert-style" screening of Prince's mighty Purple Rain, including I Would Die 4 U, When Doves Cry and Let's Go Crazy, followed by a sing-along Grease, and a dance-along version of Dirty Dancing next weekend. There will be dance trainers on hand, street food and cocktails, and "fancy dress is encouraged but not enforced".
Leonard Street Car Park, EC2, Fri to 26 May
The Invisible Lighthouse,...
Easter Film Hop & Midsummer Night Screen, London
No, there's nothing wrong with your calendar. This was supposed to happen at Easter, but being outdoors and in Britain, it was inevitably rained, hailed and snowed well and truly off. So here it is again: three days of dance-related screenings in a converted Shoreditch car park, with the emphasis on standing up and shakin' rather than sitting down and nodding. On Friday it's a "concert-style" screening of Prince's mighty Purple Rain, including I Would Die 4 U, When Doves Cry and Let's Go Crazy, followed by a sing-along Grease, and a dance-along version of Dirty Dancing next weekend. There will be dance trainers on hand, street food and cocktails, and "fancy dress is encouraged but not enforced".
Leonard Street Car Park, EC2, Fri to 26 May
The Invisible Lighthouse,...
- 5/18/2013
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Donmar Warehouse, London
Best known for movies such as Atonement and Anna Karenina, Joe Wright has finally got round to directing his first play, and, appropriately, he has chosen Pinero's warm-hearted tribute, written in 1898, to the theatrical medium itself. But, while it makes a perfectly amiable evening, Wright can't help pushing Pinero's faithful re-creation of a past theatrical age to the edge of caricature.
Pinero's play deals with class, change and the enduring power of theatre. It starts by showing Rose Trelawny, the darling of 1860s Sadler's Wells, quitting the stage to marry into the gentry. But once ensconced in Cavendish Square, where she's very much on trial with her fiance's grandfather and great-aunt, she's appalled by the stifling tyranny of upper-class life. Sacrificing her lover, she goes back to the boards only to find her talent has evaporated. Her one hope would seem to lie with an emerging playwright,...
Best known for movies such as Atonement and Anna Karenina, Joe Wright has finally got round to directing his first play, and, appropriately, he has chosen Pinero's warm-hearted tribute, written in 1898, to the theatrical medium itself. But, while it makes a perfectly amiable evening, Wright can't help pushing Pinero's faithful re-creation of a past theatrical age to the edge of caricature.
Pinero's play deals with class, change and the enduring power of theatre. It starts by showing Rose Trelawny, the darling of 1860s Sadler's Wells, quitting the stage to marry into the gentry. But once ensconced in Cavendish Square, where she's very much on trial with her fiance's grandfather and great-aunt, she's appalled by the stifling tyranny of upper-class life. Sacrificing her lover, she goes back to the boards only to find her talent has evaporated. Her one hope would seem to lie with an emerging playwright,...
- 2/27/2013
- by Michael Billington
- The Guardian - Film News
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