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Good for Emma for using this space to publicise her play – hope it went well.
My plug is for the Salt campaign elsewhere in this blog to have Sue Hubbard’s much-loved poetry installation Eurydice restored in its former glory to the Waterloo Underpass – if Nelson’s Column or its guardian lions had been blued over, there would be the most deafening outcry.
Do the right thing, Railtrack – people will never love you, but their opinion may marginally improve if you will do the right thing.
Hi, I just thought this may be of interest to the people attending the lit london festival seeing as its a play about different literary works and its on in london!
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Ever wondered what happens in the margins of literature’s greatest works…?
Do Look Back in Anger
a new play
by Emma Hutchins
As part of the The Camden Fringe 2009
‘Do Look Back in Anger’ is a new play which explores what happens in the margins of literature’s greatest works. This jam-packed hour of theatre refreshingly re-imagines characters from Wuthering Heights, Hamlet, Look Back in Anger, Macbeth and Babydoll in a series of funny and moving scenes. Performed by Emma Hutchins and Steven George (soon to be appearing in The Bill!).
How did the newly hitched Lady M. think her marriage to Macbeth would pan out? Why didn’t Alison stand up to Jimmy Porter and what might she say if she was given half the chance? What does the Prince of Denmark do in his downtime, and what if Ham and Phi’s love affair was more about smiley faces and chips than tragedy and torment? What keeps the dangerously seductive Babydoll and terrifyingly haughty Cathy awake at night? What links all these characters, and what is their problem with the stories that have been told about them?
Do look Back in Anger is the new work from NOT Stalking David Tennant creator Emma Hutchins. Emma first performed ‘NOT Stalking David Tennant’ at the Camden Fringe 2007 prior to its critically acclaimed run at the Edinburgh Fringe 2008. Critics commented:
‘Hutchins creates a genuinely enchanting piece, with carefully crafted characters who are thoroughly engaging to watch… an impressive debut’
(The British Theatre Guide)
‘The characters she creates, using both her accomplished verbal and non-verbal resources, represent a colourful variety of types, accents and personal quirks… demonstrating her own gifts of confidence, fun and artistic integrity’ (The Stage)
‘an admirable and brave performer who… delivers a funny, emotional, and upsetting performance that explores issues close to many women’s hearts’
(Three Weeks)
‘Ambitious? Yes. Misguided? Certainly not… intelligently amusing and well thought out’ (Londonist.com)
Not Stalking Productions are proud to be premiering Do Look back in Anger at The Camden Fringe 2009: Prepare to laugh, cry and ponder what links these beguiling characters, what might in fact link us all…
When: 7.30pm Mon 3rd August to Fri 7th August 2009
Where: The Etc Theatre
above The Oxford Arms
265 Camden High Street
NW1 7BU
Tickets: £7.50
Box office: http://www.camdenfringe.org/ Tel: 08444 771000
Mon 3rd August, 7.30pm
Tue 4th August, 7.30pm
Wed 5th August, 7.30pm
Thurs 6th August, 7.30pm
Fri 7th August, 7.30pm