What’s On @ The Lantern Calendar
LARRY ‘Director Daniel Finlay keeps the two-act play zipping along with a good mix of actorish humour & glimpses into a life well lived’. (The Stage) CASTING SHADOWS ‘A barometer of mid-twentieth century British theatre’. (Time Out) ‘My father would have loved this play’. (Tamsin Olivier) Part of: Retrospective: A Week Of Plays About Theatre, Actors & Writers By Mark Burgess – 24th-28th October 2023 LARRY ‘Director Daniel Finlay keeps the two-act play zipping along with a good mix of actorish humour & glimpses into a life well lived’. (The Stage) CASTING SHADOWS ‘A barometer of mid-twentieth century British theatre’. (Time Out) ‘My father would have loved this play’. (Tamsin Olivier) Part of: Retrospective: A Week Of Plays About Theatre, Actors & Writers By Mark Burgess – 24th-28th October 2023 JOAN & the BARON ‘Pick of the Day’. (Sunday Times Culture Magazine & The Observer) ‘Charming play’. (Mail on Sunday) SAM O’BEDLAM ‘A superb introduction to the man, Samuel Beckett, & his most famous work’. (Radio Times) Part of: Retrospective: A Week Of Plays About Theatre, Actors & Writers By Mark Burgess – 24th-28th October 2023 JOAN & the BARON ‘Pick of the Day’. (Sunday Times Culture Magazine & The Observer) ‘Charming play’. (Mail on Sunday) SAM O’BEDLAM ‘A superb introduction to the man, Samuel Beckett, & his most famous work’. (Radio Times) Part of: Retrospective: A Week Of Plays About Theatre, Actors & Writers By Mark Burgess – 24th-28th October 2023 One act play based on a real event which sees Sir Alec Guinness dining at a London restaurant with former MI6 Chief Sir Maurice Oldfield. The two men had been introduced by John Le Carré in order to assist Guinness with his portrayal of George Smiley in the BBC’s ‘Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy’. With Trevor Littledale as Guinness & Derek Howard as Oldfield. ‘Come spy on the spies’. Part of: Retrospective: A Week Of Plays About Theatre, Actors & Writers By Mark Burgess – 24th-28th October 2023 One act play based on a real event which sees Sir Alec Guinness dining at a London restaurant with former MI6 Chief Sir Maurice Oldfield. The two men had been introduced by John Le Carré in order to assist Guinness with his portrayal of George Smiley in the BBC’s ‘Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy’. With Trevor Littledale as Guinness & Derek Howard as Oldfield. ‘Come spy on the spies’. Part of: Retrospective: A Week Of Plays About Theatre, Actors & Writers By Mark Burgess – 24th-28th October 2023
Larry & Casting Shadows
Larry & Casting Shadows
Keith Drinkel stars as Sir Laurence Olivier in this solo show that has been performed extensively in London, the UK & France. In a New York hotel room, Olivier prepares for his first day of filming on ‘Marathon Man’.
A rehearsed reading of the BBC Radio 4 play adapted by its author from his original full-length stage play. It’s 1962 & Max Miller & Terence Rattigan have been invited by Laurence Olivier to spend a summer’s afternoon in his Brighton beach hut. With Keith Drinkel as Olivier, Julien Ball as Rattigan & Trevor Littledale as Miller. Larry & Casting Shadows
Larry & Casting Shadows
Keith Drinkel stars as Sir Laurence Olivier in this solo show that has been performed extensively in London, the UK & France. In a New York hotel room, Olivier prepares for his first day of filming on ‘Marathon Man’.
A rehearsed reading of the BBC Radio 4 play adapted by its author from his original full-length stage play. It’s 1962 & Max Miller & Terence Rattigan have been invited by Laurence Olivier to spend a summer’s afternoon in his Brighton beach hut. With Keith Drinkel as Olivier, Julien Ball as Rattigan & Trevor Littledale as Miller.
Joan & The Baron and Sam O’Bedlam
Joan & The Baron and Sam O’Bedlam
Rehearsed reading of the BBC Radio 4 play based on the remarkable friendship between influential theatre director Joan Littlewood & Baron Philippe de Rothschild.
Rehearsed reading of the BBC Radio 4 play & the story behind the writing of Samuel Beckett’s classic play ‘Waiting for Godot’. Joan & The Baron and Sam O’Bedlam
Joan & The Baron and Sam O’Bedlam
Rehearsed reading of the BBC Radio 4 play based on the remarkable friendship between influential theatre director Joan Littlewood & Baron Philippe de Rothschild.
Rehearsed reading of the BBC Radio 4 play & the story behind the writing of Samuel Beckett’s classic play ‘Waiting for Godot’.
Soldier / Sailor
Soldier / Sailor
Soldier / Sailor
Soldier / Sailor