Stephen Sondheim

After Monday’s attendance at Richmond Theatre for Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime, this has turned into a theatre-packed week.

On Tuesday, I went to the Soho Theatre to review gay theatre legend Bette Bourne being ‘interviewed’ by Mark Ravenhill. The inverted commas are because, although the evening was based on transcripts of interview conversations between the pair of them, Ravenhill then took those transcripts and cut them down into scripted conversations. Last year, the conversations took place over three evenings: this current production further cuts them down to a single evening. It’s not a particularly successful approach to investigating what is a spellbindingly personal story — but being in the presence of Bourne recounting tales from his life is a privilege, in any case. [click to continue…]

Tagged as: Bette Bourne, Central School of Speech and Drama, Into the Woods, Jerusalem, Jez Butterworth, Mark Ravenhill, So You Think You Can Dance, St John's College, Stephen Sondheim, Theatre

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