Theatre of Realism
Theatre of realism is a deeply exacting style of performance that draws on the ‘significant detail’ of everyday life to highlight the challenges of seeking the truth about causes of injustice.
Theatre of Realism
Billy the Girl
Katie Hims' Billy the Girl presents superbly drawn characters, faced with the paradox of living ordinary lives through times of big change. Direction, design and sensitive portrayals of difficult characters combine in a moving story of about starting again.
Theatre of Realism
Land of Our Fathers
Engaging from the outset, the play hits the audience with a mining disaster only seconds after an explosion that traps six miners. The fact that it is 1979 adds even greater tension.
Featured Theatre of Realism
London Stories
Battersea Arts Centre's London Stories: A 1-on-1-on-1 Festival is uniquely positioned to become a most powerful form of participatory theatre. The idea is simple: begin with a sprawling building, like old municipal offices; invite in local people who feel they have life-changing experiences to tell about living their messy, complicated lives (that's pretty much all of us), and organise ushers and staff to direct the moving traffic of paying audience members from story to story around the building.
Theatre of Realism
The Pitman Painters
The popularity of Lee Hall's The Pitman Painters is evident from its sell-out seasons at the National Theatre, on Broadway and in the West End. Arguably, such success must make Hall's play one of the past decade's most significant English dramas to engage contemporary audiences in re-looking at "class warfare" in post-WW2 British culture.
Theatre of Realism
Our Town at the King’s Head Theatre
"Did you know that Our Town is the most performed play in the world after Shakespeare, with a performance of the play running every night in the United States since its premiere in 1938? Over 300,000 performances!" Artistic Director Adam Spreadbury-Maher, at the opening of King's Head Theatre's 75th Anniversary Production of Wilder's Our Town.
Theatre of Realism
The Great Gatsby
Joe Evan’s music & lyrics and Linnie Reedman’s adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby’s nostalgic view of America between the wars glistens and sparkles with a destructive glory. The tragic love story of rich girl and poor hero works around powerful themes: loyalty and love, faithfulness and betrayal combines with the individual’s pursuit of the American dream for happiness and economic success. The music is dynamic and story is coherently presented beginning from the moment when the pretty socialite, Daisy, and heroic soldier, Jay Gatsby, are separated by war and circumstances.
Theatre of Realism
Ghosts
Firstly, Enoch’s adaptation of the play’s original setting of the “landscape of a fjord” to Scotland’s Orkney Islands, seems to allow director, Anna Fox, to retain Ibsen’s highly dramatic intention to create the effect of a misty backdrop out of which the actors step onto stage: either into the main setting of the conservatory in the Alving house or in what appear to be shadowy, secretive places around it.
Theatre of Realism
Autumn Fires
Autumn Fires Genre: Drama Venue: Finborough Theatre 118 Finborough Road London SW10 9ED Low Down The ...
Theatre of Realism
Of Mice And Men
Of Mice And Men Genre: Drama Venue: The Brockley Jack Studio Theatre 410 Brockley Road Brockley London SE4 2DH ...
