Category: Christopher Oram

Michael Grandage Company presents PRIVATES ON PARADE – a play by Peter Nichols. Music by Denis King at the Noel Coward Theatre, London. Peter Nichols was born in 1927 and is still writing for the theatre. His first play in 1967 was the devastating comic tragedy A DAY IN THE DEATH OF JOE EGG, presenting a young couple dealing with their disabled daughter, affectionately nicknamed, Joe Egg – the auto-biographical details from the writer’s life brilliantly, shockingly resonant still today. It is an audacious and relevant work, as pertinent today as it was then, as daring in form today as…

  RED. A New Play by John Logan. Presented at the Donmar Warehouse. This is a play for two actors, lasting approximately 100 minutes, without interval, by American, John Logan – (eg. Theatre: NEVER THE SINNER and film: THE AVIATOR, GLADIATOR, etc). It is set in Mark Rothko’s studio at 220 Bowery, New York, during 1958 and 1959. A young man/artist, Ken (Eddie Redmayne) is employed to be an assistant/’dog’s body to the artist Rothko (Alfred Molina). The job/role/challenge is accepted by the young man and the play charts the learning process of both men in the two years covered…