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From Disney’s ‘Hercules’ musical to Sarah Kane’s devastating ‘4.48 Psychosis’, it’s another busy London June on stage ...
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The show, which has book and lyrics by Alecky Blythe and music and lyrics ... the ordinary people of London Road had to go on with their lives. How do you go ahead and celebrate, say, Christmas ...
The musical by Alecky Blythe, who wrote the book and ... The cast of Shattered Globe Theatre’s U.S. premiere of “London Road” includes (clockwise front center) Leslie Ann Sheppard, Linda ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Even before Aristotle lamented that “young people have exalted notions” and “overdo everything ...
I still think of the National Theatre’s 2011 production of Alecky Blythe and Adam Cork’s London Road, a musical about the murder of prostitutes in Ipswich by the serial killer Steve Wright, as one of ...
London Road does this and more to produce ... the crimes in which they candidly described their feelings. Writers Alecky Blythe and Adam Cork then took snippets from their answers, set them ...
Fast-forward to 2011, and a National Theatre production called London Road, written by Alecky Blythe, directed by Rufus Norris, and based – verbatim, mind you, down to every “um” and ...
‘London Road,’ with Olivia Colman, Tom Hardy, Nick Holder, Kate Fleetwood. Directed by Rufus Norris, from a screenplay by Alecky Blythe and Adam Cork. 92 minutes. Not rated; for mature ...
A hit on the British stage, “London Road” transitions well to ... community members via Adam Cork’s music and lyrics by Alecky Blythe, whose interviews with the neighborhood’s real-life ...
London Road is a bizarre formal experiment ... on the town’s reaction to these slayings as recorded firsthand by Alecky Blythe, who wrote both the film and stage versions of London Road.