Le metteur en scène

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Wednesday 20 January: Chekhov’s Major Plays (Richard Eyre, with friends).

On Jan. 20, director Richard Eyre will celebrate Chekhov's Major Plays with a cast that is currently being billed as "friends".

• Utopia & Others Places (ou celui-ci)
  
• Talking Theatre-Interviews
  
• Changing stages: A View of British and American Theatre in the Twentieth Century

Matthieu a écrit:Première de Carmen au Metropolitan Opera le 31 décembre 2009 et les répétitions de Private Lives qui commencent en janvier ? Eh bien, Sir RE ne chôme pas !

But this is Mr. Eyre’s triumph. In only his third opera, he knew what he wanted. I have never seen the final scene, in which the crazed Don José stabs the fatalistically defiant Carmen, executed with such stunning realism, a dangerous mingling of sex, rebellion and violence: the very essence of “Carmen.”

This being an opera, what could he do but kill her?

Le seul petit bémol de cette soirée, ce sont les rares huées qui se sont glissées parmi les applaudissements destinés au metteur en scène Richard Eyre et à son équipe. «C'est un peu normal, il y a toujours quelques huées pour une nouvelle production. Mais il y a surtout eu des bravos. Rien à voir avec Tosca!» rappelle Nézet-Séguin en référence aux huées nourries et aux critiques acerbes réservées à la production du metteur en scène suisse Luc Bondy qui a ouvert la saison du Met en septembre dernier, reléguant aux oubliettes une autre production de Zeffirelli qui était montée depuis 25 ans.

Luce a écrit:A suivre...

Wednesday 20 January, 7.30pm
Chekhov’s Major Plays: Richard Eyre (with Tom Burke, Lisa Dillon, Michael Pennington and Harriet Walter)

Eyre will direct leading actors (including Harriet Walter, Lisa Dillon and Pennington himself) in scenes from the great plays. (The Cherry Orchard, he says, “offers a model to any writer attempting to write about private lives and public ideas that is humane, spare, poetic, polemical, and unsentimental”).

Richard Eyre on what drew him to direct the violent but hilarious Private Lives starring Kim Cattrall.

Now the West End is to get a new blue-chip production featuring the Canadian actress Kim Cattrall (famous for playing Samantha in Sex and the City) opposite the pin-up British actor Matthew Macfadyen (both pictured above), who plays the Sheriff of Nottingham in the new film of Robin Hood out in May.

Interview: Sir Richard Eyre. The director tells Philip Fisher about directing Kim Cattrall and Matthew MacFadyen in Noel Coward's Private Lives (Vaudeville), a triumphant debut at New York’s Met with George Bizet's Carmen, and his ongoing relationship with the National Theatre. Recorded at the National.