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| Donmar Warehouse to build temporary theatre for all-female Shakespeare trilogy | |
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| The Donmar Warehouse is building a temporary theatre for an all-female Shakespeare trilogy that will see, on some days, Dame Harriet Walter performing the demanding roles of Brutus, Henry IV and Prospero back to back. | The Donmar Warehouse is building a temporary theatre for an all-female Shakespeare trilogy that will see, on some days, Dame Harriet Walter performing the demanding roles of Brutus, Henry IV and Prospero back to back. |
| The artistic director, Josie Rourke, on Wednesday announced that the Donmar was breaking out beyond its compact Covent Garden home in London for a 13-week season of Julius Caesar, Henry IV and The Tempest in a new, purpose-built, 420-seat space next to King’s Cross station. | The artistic director, Josie Rourke, on Wednesday announced that the Donmar was breaking out beyond its compact Covent Garden home in London for a 13-week season of Julius Caesar, Henry IV and The Tempest in a new, purpose-built, 420-seat space next to King’s Cross station. |
| A quarter of the tickets will be free to under 25s in a new initiative called “young and free”. Rourke said the company was proud of the expansion but “most enthused” by the free tickets. | A quarter of the tickets will be free to under 25s in a new initiative called “young and free”. Rourke said the company was proud of the expansion but “most enthused” by the free tickets. |
| “We’re living in a London where half our young people don’t attend a theatre, a museum or a music event each year. We want to make a quarter of Donmar Shakespeare trilogy tickets free to those young people.” | “We’re living in a London where half our young people don’t attend a theatre, a museum or a music event each year. We want to make a quarter of Donmar Shakespeare trilogy tickets free to those young people.” |
| Directed by Phyllida Lloyd, the Donmar’s all-female Julius Caesar raised some eyebrows when it opened in 2012. The Daily Telegraph critic called it a “a feminist closed shop” while Michael Billington in the Guardian praised it as “witty, liberating and inventive”. | Directed by Phyllida Lloyd, the Donmar’s all-female Julius Caesar raised some eyebrows when it opened in 2012. The Daily Telegraph critic called it a “a feminist closed shop” while Michael Billington in the Guardian praised it as “witty, liberating and inventive”. |
| It was followed by Henry IV in 2014, and The Tempest will complete the cycle, set, like the previous two plays, in a women’s prison. | It was followed by Henry IV in 2014, and The Tempest will complete the cycle, set, like the previous two plays, in a women’s prison. |
| Lloyd said: “The premise was to take the most voiceless group you might imagine – women prisoners. Refugees from our culture if you like – people without any access to the internet even – and watch them electrify an audience with nothing but Shakespeare’s language. | Lloyd said: “The premise was to take the most voiceless group you might imagine – women prisoners. Refugees from our culture if you like – people without any access to the internet even – and watch them electrify an audience with nothing but Shakespeare’s language. |
| “Harriet’s work ethic defines the whole thing. Mighty verse speaking, the utmost humility and the greatest good humour. The company will follow her anywhere.” | “Harriet’s work ethic defines the whole thing. Mighty verse speaking, the utmost humility and the greatest good humour. The company will follow her anywhere.” |
| Rourke said she recalled very clearly the furore at the idea of Lloyd’s all-female Julius Caesar in 2012. | Rourke said she recalled very clearly the furore at the idea of Lloyd’s all-female Julius Caesar in 2012. |
| “Phyllida Lloyd’s work with this diverse, all-female company has been genuinely ground-breaking and in the intervening four years, theatre has got into the fast lane of debate and change. | “Phyllida Lloyd’s work with this diverse, all-female company has been genuinely ground-breaking and in the intervening four years, theatre has got into the fast lane of debate and change. |
| “It’s time, with these ‘young and free’ tickets, to join together our question about who gets to play these roles with a renewed mission for who gets to experience them.” | “It’s time, with these ‘young and free’ tickets, to join together our question about who gets to play these roles with a renewed mission for who gets to experience them.” |
| The temporary theatre will be constructed on a unused piece of land next to the space currently hosting The Railway Children. Running from 23 September to 17 December, the repertory season will include six days when the three plays will be performed back to back. | The temporary theatre will be constructed on a unused piece of land next to the space currently hosting The Railway Children. Running from 23 September to 17 December, the repertory season will include six days when the three plays will be performed back to back. |
| After King’s Cross, The Tempest will transfer to New York’s St Ann’s Warehouse in January 2017, concluding what the theatre said was “an unprecendented” eight months of Donmar productions in New York. | After King’s Cross, The Tempest will transfer to New York’s St Ann’s Warehouse in January 2017, concluding what the theatre said was “an unprecendented” eight months of Donmar productions in New York. |
| As already announced, Daniel Radcliffe will star in Rourke’s production of the Edward Snowden-inspired Privacy, by James Graham, opening in July at the Public Theater. | As already announced, Daniel Radcliffe will star in Rourke’s production of the Edward Snowden-inspired Privacy, by James Graham, opening in July at the Public Theater. |
| That will be followed by the transfer of Christopher Hampton’s Les Liaisons Dangereuses, starring Janet McTeer and Liev Schreiber and directed by Rourke at the Booth Theater from October. | That will be followed by the transfer of Christopher Hampton’s Les Liaisons Dangereuses, starring Janet McTeer and Liev Schreiber and directed by Rourke at the Booth Theater from October. |