Sarah Fitzwarren
First staged at Lyric Hammersmith in 2018 and freshly updated for 2020, Ned Bennett directs this wild and inventive production and explores what it is like to come from a small town and arrive in a big city today. With a host of colourful characters, irreverent jokes, talking animals and popular songs this is Dick Whittington as never seen before.
A room in an anonymous hotel has a profoundly dark effect on all who stay there.
Kenny Everett
世界が熱狂した伝説のバンド＜クイーン＞。その光と影を数々の名曲とともに描く感動のミュージック・エンターテイメント。1970年、ロンドン。ライブ・ハウスに通っていた若者フレディ・マーキュリーは、ギタリストのブライアン・メイとドラマーのロジャー・テイラーのバンドのボーカルが脱退したと知り自らを売り込む。二人はフレディの歌声に心を奪われ、1年後、ベーシストのジョン・ディーコンが加入。バンド名は＜クイーン＞に決まり、4人はアルバムを制作し、シングル「キラー・クイーン」が大ヒット。個性的なメンバーの革新的な挑戦によって、その後もヒット曲が次々に生み出され、フレディは“史上最高のエンターテイナー”とまで称されるようになる。しかし、栄光の影で次第にフレディはメンバーと対立し孤独を深めていくのだった…。
Wague
After marrying a successful Parisian writer known commonly as Willy, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette is transplanted from her childhood home in rural France to the intellectual and artistic splendor of Paris. Soon after, Willy convinces Colette to ghostwrite for him. She pens a semi-autobiographical novel about a witty and brazen country girl named Claudine, sparking a bestseller and a cultural sensation. After its success, Colette and Willy become the talk of Paris and their adventures inspire additional Claudine novels.
The video revolution of the 1970s offered unprecedented access to the moving image for artists and performers. This Is Not a Dream explores the legacies of this revolution and its continued impact on contemporary art and performance. Charting a path across four decades of avant-garde experiment and radical escapism, This Is Not a Dream traces the influences of Andy Warhol, John Waters and Jack Smith to the perverted frontiers of YouTube and Chatroulette, taking in subverted talk shows and soap operas, streetwalker fashions and glittery magic penises along the way.
