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The Guardian
a day ago
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Re-met by moonlight: A Midsummer Night's Dream returns to London's Bridge theatre
Hanging around during rehearsals for A Midsummer Night's Dream Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardian Felicity Montagu, centre, plays Quince Emmanuel Akwafo (Bottom), David Moorst (Puck) and Dominic Semwanga (Flute) in rehearsals David Moorst with Susannah Fielding in the production, designed by Bunny Christie A Midsummer Night's Dream is an immersive production with some audience members up close and personal Emmanuel Akwafo, right, with JJ Feild, who doubles as Oberon and Theseus A Midsummer Night's Dream has movement direction by Arlene Phillips David Moorst (Puck), top, Divesh Subaskaran (Lysander) and Paul Adeyefa (Demetrius) There is co-direction and co-movement direction by James Cousins The costumes are designed by Christina Cunningham, with additional outfits by Bunny Christie Susannah Fielding and JJ Feild A Midsummer Night's Dream has lighting by Bruno Poet The composer is Grant Olding, with sound design by Paul Arditti Emmanuel Akwafo (Bottom) and Hilson Agbangbe (Starveling) in the production, with fight direction by Kate Waters The hair and make-up designer is Susanna Peretz A Midsummer Night's Dream is at the Bridge theatre, London, until 20 August
Evening Standard
29-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Evening Standard
Alicia Vikander's guide to London: Claridge's, book shops and Lime biking
I'm preparing to return to the stage, for Simon Stone's new version of Henrik Ibsen's The Lady from the Sea at the Bridge Theatre. I'm so excited. I've been secretly waiting for the day when this will come. My mother was a stage actress, and in Sweden there are not that many films or TV shows being made, so if you are an actor you are on stage.
Time Out
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Out
A massive summer West End theatre ticket sale is now happening in London
From the people who brought you London Theatre Week – which is actually a month long, and happens twice a year – here comes the Summer Theatre Sale, which is, by most definitions, running in late spring. But who cares when you once again have an opportunity to take the sting out of the cost of West End tickets? As with all these sales (which Time Out is a partner on), the basic deal is very simple: many if not quite all of the West End productions in London participate. Some, established shows like Book of Mormon and Matilda are offering a few quid off, which is obviously totally worth it. Others, you can get some pretty stonking savings: there's 43 percent off prices for Tina – The Tina Turner Musical, which has recently announced that it'll be calling it a day in September. You can get a walloping 75 percent off for the last few weeks of Ryan Calais Cameron's excellent new thriller Retrograde. And if it is undeniably taking place before most definitions of summer, it is a very good sale for actually getting your summer in order and snapping up tickets for what will hopefully be extremely popular shows before the reviews come out and ticket sales go nuts: highly recommended shows with big savings now that probably won't soon include wildly acclaimed US drama Stereophonic – a fictionalised account of the making of Fleetwood Mac's Rumours – the return of the Bridge Theatre's excellent immersive A Midsummer Night's Dream, and another chance to see acclaimed Bob Dylan musical Girl from the North Country at the Old Vic. In other words whatever your taste in theatre, and whatever your definition of British summer, there should be something for you in the Summer Theatre Sale.
Yahoo
07-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Alicia Vikander 'daunted' to return to stage for first time in 17 years
Alicia Vikander 'daunted' to return to stage for first time in 17 years Alicia Vikander feels daunted by the prospect of returning to the stage for the first time in 17 years. The Oscar-winning actress will star alongside The Walking Dead's Andrew Lincoln in a revival of Henrik Ibsen's The Lady from the Sea, which will be adapted and directed by Simon Stone. While the production has been billed as her U.K. stage debut, the Swedish actress told BBC News that it's actually her first time treading the boards since she was 19. "I did theatre for my teens for a lot of years, like a child actor, and then the last thing I did was when I was a dancer for the Stockholm Opera House," Vikander, 36, explained. "I grew up watching my mother (stage actress Maria Fahl) doing theatre, and I'd always watch from afar, and I can't wait to try and do it myself. "It's a daunting thing to do, obviously, it's my first time on stage as an adult, and it's on the London stage, and obviously I want to make sure people get their ticket money's worth! But I'm really excited." The Ex Machina actress noted that theatre "has always been something (she's) been waiting for" since her screen career took off and this production felt "like the perfect match" as it goes back to Scandinavian roots. In the play, Vikander will star as Ellida, who is forced to reassess her marriage to Edvard (Lincoln) when her dangerous ex-lover remerges. Lincoln, who last appeared on stage as Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol in 2020, said in a statement that working with Vikander and Stone was "too irresistible an opportunity to miss". The Lady from the Sea will run for eight weeks at London's Bridge Theatre from 10 September.
Time Out
07-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Out
Alicia Vikander will make her theatre debut in London opposite Andrew Lincoln in ‘The Lady from the Sea'
The Bridge Theatre has had a big juicy hole in its programming for some months now, smack bang between the imminent return of Nicholas Hytner's ecstatic immersive A Midsummer Night's Dream and Jordan Fein's revival of Sondheim's immortal Into the Woods. We'd hoped a starry play with an interesting director might plug the gap, and lo! It has come to pass. In a busy year for Ibsen adaptations – following the Lyric Hammersmith's Ghosts, the Ewan McGregor-starring My Master Builder and a Lily Allen-led spin on Hedda Gabler over in Bath – auteur Aussie director Simon Stone will put his own spin on The Lady from the Sea. And he's got some heavyweight leads in the shape of Andrew Lincoln and – in her stage debut – Academy Award-winning Swedish actor Alicia Vikander. Ibsen's 1889 drama concerns Ellida, a woman who has settled for a comfortable life that is shaken to the core when an old lover re-emerges. As with all Simon Stone's works – most famously his Billie Piper-starring West End hit Yerma – the play is a modern interpretation that he himself has adapted and directed, so it's hard to say precisely what details of the original will be retained, but he should do something pretty enthralling with it. Vikander is a prolific screen actor best known for playing Lara Croft in the 2018 version of Tomb Raider and for her Oscar-winning supporting turn in 2015's The Danish Girl. Lincoln was a regular on UK stages before finding major US success with The Walking Dead. Technically his last London stage role was playing Scrooge at the Old Vic's A Christmas Carol in 2020, though the show was performed in front of webcams in an empty theatre due to the pandemic. Vikander will play Ellida, and Lincoln her husband Edvard (whether the family name remains Wangel is TBC). There's a third major role of Ellida's dangerous ex-lover – in Ibsen simply called The Stranger – that is still to be cast, but all will presumably be revealed soon-ish. The show goes on general sale May 13, and you'll be able to .
