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Photos: Inside Barn Theatre's rehearsals for David Copperfield | Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard wiltsglosstandard.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wiltsglosstandard.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Verdict: Sweet, but still harrowing Contrary to my persistent belief, Oscar Wilde did not say ‘imitation is the sincerest form of flattery’. It certainly sounds like him, but it was in fact a line from the much lesser-known Victorian man of letters, Charles Caleb Colton. Even so, it was a sincere form of flattery if not folly for Yasmeen Khan to produce a pastiche of one of Wilde’s best-loved and most-quoted comedies, resetting it in modern ’uddersfield, the northern town that lost its initial letter. Wilde’s original features a series of improbable mix-ups involving two men sharing the pseudonym Ernest. Khan replaces metropolitan young cards Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff with vain romcom actor Algy (Tom Dixon) and desperate out-of-work thesp Jamil (Gurjeet Singh). ....
The Barn Theatre Announces Two Digital Michael Morpurgo Classics Coming This Spring broadwayworld.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from broadwayworld.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Old Red Lion Theatre Pub in St John Street Angel will reopen this winter with a programme of new writing - Credit: Dieter Perry The Old Red Lion and Park Theatres have announced plans to reopen with live entertainment this winter. If Government restrictions allow, the pub theatre in Angel will welcome back audiences of just 20 at a time from December 18 to January 31 with a programme of eclectic new writing, including shows that were denied a run at this summer s Edinburgh Fringe or were created during lockdown. Meanwhile Park Theatre artistic director Jez Bond intends to reopen on January 7 with socially distanced shows in the main house and studio. ....