Sam Wanamaker Playhouse winter season

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From The Stage:


Shakespeare's Globe artistic director Emma Rice and playwright Joel Horwood are to adapt Hans Christian Anderson's The Little Matchgirl this Christmas.



The show forms part of Rice's inaugural winter season at the Globe, comprising five productions that will run in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.



The Little Matchgirl (and Other Happier Tales) features live music and puppetry and runs from November 4 to January 22. Rice also directs.



John Milton's Comus – A Masque in Honour of Chastity opens the season on October 26, directed by Lucy Bailey.



Christmas will also see All the Angels – Handel and the First Messiah performed at the venue. Nick Drake's play charts the story of the famous choral work and will be directed by Jonathan Munby.



It runs from December 6 to February 12.



John Webster's The White Devil, directed by Annie Ryan, and Othello, directed by Ellen McDougall, will run in the playhouse in early 2017.



The White Devil opens on January 26, running to April 16, with Othello closing the season, running from February 23 to April 16.



Announcing the season, Rice said: "As the nights draw in, my Wonder Season moves indoors and slips sensuously into ‘noir’. I’ve been itching to get into the magical den that is the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse and can’t wait to explore its intoxicating beauty."

[Someone in a tree]

Not much Shakespeare :-(

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May 23, 2016 10:55:02 GMT Someone in a tree said:

Not much Shakespeare :-(

It tends to be the space where they do more non-shakespeare stuff. Although last year they did the four late plays, the previous two years had none at all.

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Joel Horwood's having a busy Christmas, what with The Little Matchgirl here and the panto at the Lyric Hammersmith. And no, it's not really the Shakespeare venue. If you think of the Globe as mirroring the RSC, the Globe itself is the RST with the major Shakespeare productions, and the Swanamaker is the Swan with the non-Shakespeare productions alongside the main house. Sometimes Shakespeare sneaks in (Othello and Two Noble Kinsmen this winter; and, indeed, sometimes it sneaks out when the RSC does Wendy and Peter Pans and the Globe does Adolphus Tippses), but by and large I wouldn't expect the Swanamaker to stage a lot of Shakespeare. And frankly I wouldn't want it to, we have very few theatres that are willing to explore other playwrights of the era, it would be a shame for the Swanamaker to abandon them in favour of doing the same old 38 plays that everybody else does.

[Marwood]

Anyone have any idea who will be in any of these productions? Saw Aidan Gillen's reading of The Dead in the Playhouse last December and really enjoyed it, but I'm a bit cautious of paying top price when I have no idea who'll be acting in it.

[PalelyLaura]

I'm really excited for this season, especially The White Devil.

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Good to see The White Devil there, it should be a good fit for the space. Also Milton, wow, can't think of many times we've had a restaging of a masque. Little Match Girl and Messiah play interesting too, in fact the sole Shakespeare is the only one that doesn't automatically enthuse (casting might change that though).

[mallardo]

A Masque in Honour of Chastity. Sounds like a lot of fun.

[David J]

Hopefully this White Devil will be an improvement on the Maria Aberg version

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'The Little Match Girl' will have to go some way to even coming close to the Meow Meow cabaret inspired by the HCA tale at the Royal Festival Hall a few years ago. That was truly sensational.

[ATK]

Comus is perhaps the most static masque ever written. Orare a Ben Jonson! But best of luck to Lucy Bailey.

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Looks like an interesting season - glad to see that under Emma Rice they are sticking to the remit of exploring various forms of Jacobethan theatre. Never seen a masque performed!

Of course if I ruled the world Lucy Bailey would be running the Globe, but good to see her back anyway.

[lynette]

May 23, 2016 14:19:07 GMT David J said:

Hopefully this White Devil will be an improvement on the Maria Aberg version

You mean the RSC jobbie? My, that was baaaad in the original meaning of dreadful. 

[stefy69]

Some good stuff there   but oh ! those painful seats

[partytentdown]

Booking just opened for this.

[Deleted]

I would like to see some of these, but I don't think there's likely to be any mad rush for tickets, is there? I suppose it's worth keeping an eye on Othello at least...

[Deleted]

The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk (this summer) is a lovely show but it could be frustrating in the Samamaker because it works best if you can actually see it.