THE OSCHOLARS
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Vol. IV
No. 2
issue no 33:
February 2007
Going Wilde
Current &
Forthcoming Productions
With the specific appointment of Michelle Paull as Associate Editor for English Theatre and Tiffany Perala as Associate Editor for American Theatre, we hope to improve our coverage from those countries. Information from Australia, Austria, Belgium, China, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands and Sweden is provided by our other Associate Editors.
We have introduced a new section on this page. ‘Beyond the Wilderness’ will notice at least a selection of other productions that come within our fin-de-siècle remit. Again, we hope readers will help provide information.
Current productions are given as a rolling list, new ones being added each month, old ones being removed on expiry.
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3. France |
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Beyond the Wilderness Ibsen – Maeterlinck – Strindberg – Zola |
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1. Canada
Lady Windermere’s Fan
Alumnae Theatre, Toronto
19th January to 3rd
February
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Tennille Read |
Lady Windermere |
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Patrick Brown |
Lord Windermere |
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Dinah Watts |
Mrs. Erlynne |
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Conor O'Hegarty |
Lord Darlington |
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Tricia Brioux |
Duchess of Berwick |
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Andrew Batten |
Mr. Dumby |
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Tim F. Braddock |
Parker |
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Heather Couch |
Rosalie |
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Stephen Flett |
Lord Augustus Lorton |
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Gina Hetland |
Lady Agatha Carlisle |
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Andrea Irwin |
Lady Plymdale |
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Gloria Lambert |
Lady Stutfield |
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Tina McCulloch |
Mrs. Cowper-Cowper |
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Cathy McKim |
Cecil Graham |
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Carol McLennan |
Lady Jedburgh |
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David Simor |
Mr. Hopper |
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Allegra Shepherd |
Maid |
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Director |
Barbara Larose |
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Assistant Director |
Ellen R. Green |
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Co-Producer |
Tabitha Keast |
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Associate Producer |
Kathryn Malek |
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Sound Design |
Rick Jones |
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Lighting Designer |
Ed Rosing |
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Assistant Stage Manager |
Nancy Shepherd |
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Props Mistress |
Dorothy Wilson |
An Ideal Husband
The Stratford Festival of Canada is honouring Artistic Director Richard Monette this summer season with what they are calling a season devoted to: ‘The Outsider: An “Other” World’. Monette will be directing An Ideal Husband running 31st July-27th October 2007.
2. England
The
Canterville Ghost
English National Ballet is on tour
with The
Canterville Ghost. Narrated by Tom Baker. One can see a preview on the English National
Ballet website.
‘The Canterville Ghost has been haunting his house for 400 years and he doesn’t take kindly to the American family who move in, especially not the naughty twins! However, he becomes fond of the beautiful Virginia, who is falling in love with Cecil, a bumbling English Duke.
‘The Ghost entices Virginia to a ghostly underworld ball with dancing spiders, mummies and suits of armour, where he asks her to marry him. Will Virginia become his wife or will she escape back to her family and the romantic Cecil?’
The cast varies but the following take part: Begoña Cao (Virginia), James Streeter (Ghost), Daniel Kraus (Cecil); Elena Glurdjidze (Virginia), Ivan Dinev (Ghost), Juan Rodriguez (Cecil).
Choreography
Will Tuckett Music
Martin Ward Narrator
Tom Baker Set design
Dick Bird
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Costume design
Sue Blane Lighting
design
Neil Austin Adaptation
Michael
West |
Photographs
by Patrick Baldwin
Swan
Theatre, Wycombe 20th –
25th February; Regent Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent 28th February – 3rd March;
Sadler's Wells, London 6th – 10th March.
The
Importance of Being Earnest
Devonshire Park Theatre
Eastbourne, Eastbourne Operatic &
Dramatic Society
7th – 10th and 21st – 24th March
Lord Arthur
Savile's Crime
Nottingham Arts Theatre
5th – 10th
February
3. France
Danielle Guérin, our Associate Editor for French cultural affairs, is compiling a directory of all French productions for our sister publication Rue des beaux arts. This will appeal serially and an amalgamated list will eventually be published in the folder of the Société Oscar Wilde in the webpages of THE OSCHOLARS at www.oscholars.com, where Rue des beaux arts is housed. Greater attention will be paid to French language productions (or English language productions in France) in Rue des beaux arts than here in future, but links will be put in place. Rue des beaux arts plans to cover all productions in France and DOM/TOM, French Canada, Wallonie and Suisse Romande and to review as many as possible.
In October 2006 we listed all the productions of the last three years. Since then, other productions have continued to appear.
The Importance of being Ernest / L'Importance d'être Constant which as reported in October issue opened at the Théâtre Antoine on 8th September 2006 has thrice had its run extended and is now expected to play until the end of April.
Lady Windermere’s
Fan / L’Éventail de Lady Windermere
Having finished its run at the Théâtre 14 in Paris, this production by Sébastien Azzopardi transferred to the much larger Bouffes Parisiens on the 16th January. It will run until 1st April.
The Importance Of Being Earnest
Théâtre Sylvia Montfort,
Paris
30th January to 10th February
Adaptation Andrew Loudon et
Emma Reeves, directed by Lucile O’Flanagan.
With Ginnie Watson
(Gwendolen), Elisabeth Ingham (Cecily), Sophie Nahmias (Lady Bracknell),
Michael Rickwood (John (Jack) Worthing), Barnaby Apps (Algernon)
An English language production.
4. Germany
Report from Lucia Krämer.
The Importance of Being Earnest
Bunbury – Ernst ist das Leben, a production of the German translation of Earnest by Elfriede Jelinek, is still in repertory at the Kammerspiele of the Deutsches Theater Berlin.
Director: Bettina Bruinier
Décor: Claudia Rohner
Costumes: Markus Karner
With
Aylin Esener, Gabriele Heinz, Barbara Schnitzler, Kathrin Wehlisch, Peter Beck,
Peter Pagel, Thomas Schmidt, Bernd Stempel, Oliver Urbanski
23rd, 25th February, 20th, 28th March 2007
The Canterville Ghost (Das Gespenst von Canterville) is still being presented at the
Schauspielhaus Bochum
Director: Dirk Engler
Décor and costumes:
Barbara Kaesbohrer
Music: Martin Lutz
With Sandra Gerling, Veronika Nickl, Katja Uffelmann, Matthias Beitmann,
Mark Oliver Bögel, Philipp Denzel, Henning Hartmann, Ralph M. Küster, Christoph
Pütthoff
22nd, 23rd, 25th, 26th,
28th February, 5th, 11th, 25th, 26th March 2007.
An Ideal Husband - Ein idealer
Gatte
Theater Kiel
Directed by Daniel Karasek
Costumes and Décor: Ina Reuter
With Stefan W. Wang, Rainer
Jordan, Matthias Unruh, Agnes Richter, Mirjam Smejkat, Vera Weisbrod, Olaf
Salmon, Claudia Macht, Almuth Schmidt, Ellen Dorn
Opens 10th
February 2007, 15th, 18th February, 2nd, 10th, 16th, 18th, 28th March 2007
Ein
idealer Gatte
Schauspielhaus Bochum
Opened 25th February 2006
Director: Armin Holz
Decor:
Heike van Bentum, Armin Holz
Costumes:
Esther Walz
Music: Philipp
Weiss
With Margit
Carstensen, Claude De Demo, Jeanette Hain, Imogen Kogge, Veronika Nickl,
Josefin Platt, Markus Boysen, Hans Diehl, Sebastian Koch, Michael Lippold,
Jaschar Sarabtchian, Cornelius Schwalm
15th, 18th March
2007
5. THE UNITED STATES
Our Associate Editor with responsibility for United States Theatre is Tiffany Perala. Do please alert her to any coming productions. @
The Importance of Being Earnest
Temple Theatres, Temple University, Philadelphia
7th to 17th February 2007
Directed by Dan Kern
The Importance of Being Earnest
… will also be produced the University at Buffalo 18th-22nd April directed by Robert Knopf and at California State University directed by Cynthia Lammel. Details to follow.
Last November (2006) A Picture of Dorian Gray by Michael Michetti (The Theater @ Boston
Court) and Bunbury: A Serious Play
for Trivial People by Tom Jacobson (Road Theater Company) were nominated
for The Ovation Awards at the Orpheum Theater, Los Angeles.
The previous month, at the Puppet Showplace Theatre, Brookline, Mass., on 15th October, there was held ‘Oscar Wilde's Birthday Party’, a benefit for the Boston Actors Theater. This was a staged reading of Wilde's poetry, quotes, and letters from his American tour.
In 2003 A
Florentine Tragedy was played by the Two Rivers Theatre in New Jersey, and
again in June 2004 at the Common Basis Theatre, New York by the Xoregos Company
directed by Shela Xoregos as part of a season of one-act plays called
‘Typewriter Dreams’, with the prologue written by T. Sturge Moore.
German productions provided by Lucia Krämer.
Henrik Ibsen
Brand
Residenz Theater München
Directed by Thomas Langhoff
With Gabi Geist, Stephanie Leue, Franziska Rieck, Heide von Strombeck, Judith Toth, Peter Albers, Robert Joseph Bartl, Ulrich Beseler, Rainer Bock, Burchard Dabinnus, Stefan Hunstein, Alfred Kleinheinz, Maximilian Löwenstein, Arnulf Schumacher, Helmut Stange, Stefan Wilkening
21st, 25th February, 5th, 27th March 2007
Ghosts (Gespenster)
Schaubühne Lehniner Platz,
Berlin
Transl. Angelika Gundlach
Directed by Sebastian
Nübling
With Judith Engel, Bruno
Cathomas, Robert Beyer, Jörg Hartmann, Lea Draeger
Opens
20th February, 23rd, 24th, 25th February, 23rd, 24th,
25th March 2007
Hedda Gabler
Bonn, Kleines Theater
Directed by Paul Bäcker
Opens 30th January 2007
Hedda Gabler
Deutsches Theater, Göttingen
Directed by Henner Kallmeyer
With Gerd Zinck, Andrea Strube, Elsbeth May, Julia Hansen, Andreas Klumpf, Andreas Jeßing
1st, 23rd February,
28th March 2007
Hedda Gabler
Kleines Theater, Bad Godesberg
Directed by Paul Bäcker
With Anouschka Renzi, Ursula B. Kannegießer, Myriam Stark, Matthias Kiel, Steffen Laube, Lorenz Schirren
30th January – 5th March 2007 (not daily)
Hedda Gabler
Teamtheater München
Directed by Thomas Luft
With Irene Rovan,
Bernhard Ulrich, Jochen Strodthoff, Anja Klawun, Helmut Bail
Opens 7th February, 8th, 10th,
14th-17th, 21st-24th February 2007
Hedda Gabler
Schauspiel Leipzig
Regie Markus Dietz
With Thomas Huber, Stephanie Schönfeld, Susanne Stein, Silvia Weiskopf, Andreas Keller, Alexander Gamnitzer, Julia Berke
16th, 24th February, 8th, 14th, 23rd March 2007
Hedda Gabler
Schauspiel Hannover
Directed by Christina Paulhofer
1st, 4th, 16th
February, 8th, 11th, 28th March 2007
Hedda Gabler
Theater Dortmund
Directed by Philipp Preuss
With Michael Kamp, Pit-Jan
Lößer, Petra Staduan, Birgit Unterweger, Andreas Wrosch
9th, 25th February,
22nd, 31st March 2007
Hedda Gabler
Hans-Otto-Theater Potsdam
Directed by Amina Gusner
With Peter René Lüdicke, Katja Riemann, Werner Eng, Anne Lebinsky, Andreas Herrmann
22nd February, 26th March 2007
Hedda Gabler
Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus
Directed by Stephan Rottkamp
Opens 3rd March 2007, 5th, 15th, 26th, 29th March 2007
Hedda Gabler
Das Theater an der Effingerstrasse, Bern
Opens 2nd May 2007
Hedda Gabler
Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) Irish & Classical Theatre
A new version by Judith Thompson.
14th to 30th June 2007
The Lady from
the Sea (Die Frau vom Meer)
Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin
Directed by Armin Petras
With Horst Kotterba, Anja Schneider, Hilke Altefrohne, Anika Baumann, Robert Kuchenbuch, Gunnar Teuber, Ronald Kukulies, Michael Klammer
1st, 11th February, 3rd, 14th March
Little Eyolf (Klein Eyolf)
Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin
Directed by
27th February, 3rd March 2007
The Master
Builder (Baumeister Solness)
Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin
Directed by Armin Petras
With Peter Kurth, Cristin König, Andreas Leupold, Peter Moltzen, Iringó Réti, Anja Schneider
7th, 20th February, 10th March 2007
Baumeister Solness
Residenz Theater München
Directed by Tina Lanik
With Beatrix Doderer, Cornelia Froboess, Marina Galic, Gerd Anthoff, Lambert Hamel, Jan-Peter Kampwirth, Fred Stillkrauth
10th, 13th February, 13th, 30th March 2007
Nora oder Ein
Puppenheim (A Doll’s House)
Mainfranken Theater Würzburg
Directed by Bernhard Stengele
With Edith Abels, Natalie Forester, Katharina Ries, Andreas Anke, Max de Nil, Christian Higer, Philipp Reinheimer Henrik Ibsen
4th, 27th February, 28th, 29th March 2007
Nora
Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin
Transl. Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel
Directed by Thomas Ostermeier
With Jörg Hartmann, Anne Tismer, Lars Eidinger, Jenny Schily, Kay Bartholomäus Schulze, Isabelle Redfern
18th, 19th March 2007
Nora
Theater Bonn
Directed by Klaus Weise
With Yorck Dippe, Xenia Snagowski, Roland Ribeling, Birte Schrein, Ralf Drexler
1st, 9th, 24th February, 3rd, 24th March 2007
Rosmersholm
Schauspielhaus Bochum
Transl. Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel
Directed by Elmar Goerden
With Imogen Kogge, Katja Uffelmann, Markus Boysen, Martin Horn, Benno Ifland, Klaus Weiss
4th, 10th, 21st February 2007, 3rd,
24th March 2007
The Wild Duck (Die Wildente)
Schauspiel Hannover
Directed by Barbara Bürk
With Sonja Beißwenger, Moritz Dürr, Dieter Hufschmidt, Jana Lissovskaia, Peter Knaack, Marcel Metten, Ingo Schröder, Martina Struppek
10th March 2007
The Wild Duck
Directed by Thomas Luft
Theater Winterthur, Winterthur (Switzerland)
Opens 27th March 2007
Der blaue Vogel
[L’oiseau bleu)
Staatstheater Darmstadt
Director: Andrej Woron
4th, 10th, 17th, 25th February, 3rd, 17th, 23rd
March 2007
La Maison Brûlée - Pièce De Chambre.
Opus 2
Directed by Aurélia Guillet in a new production by the
Théâtre Nationale de Strasbourg et de la Compagnie Image et ½.
15th March to 4th April
Mademoiselle
Julie
Directed by Laura Huonker.
With Alicia Aumüller, Lisa Marie Fix, Krunoslav Sebrek
Theater an
der Sihl,
Zürich
Opens 1st February 2007
Totentanz
Schauspielhaus Bremen
Directed by Karin Henkel
11th February, 10th March 2007
Totentanz
Berliner Ensemble
Directed by Thomas Langhoff
With Christina Drechsler, Ruth Glöss, Dagmar Manzel, Dieter Mann, Götz Schubert
3rd, 19th, 24th, 25th February, 3rd, 12th, 24th, 29th March 2007.
Thérèse Raquin
New version by Nicholas Wright.
Royal National Theatre / Lyttelton Auditorium, London
7th December to 21st February
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M. Michaud |
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Laurent |
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Thérèse |
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Grivet |
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Camille |
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Suzanne |
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Madame Raquin |
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Marianne Elliott |
Director |
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Hildegard Bechtler |
Set Design |
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Fotini Dimou |
Costume Designer |
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Neil Austin |
Lighting Designer |
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Olly Fox |
Music |
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Movement Director |
Laila Diallo |
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Sound Designer |
Christopher Shutt |
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