Love London Love Culture rounds up the reviews for Rebecca Frecknall’s production. Culture Whisper: **** “Lynn’s adaptation captures the wistful waiting and delusion of the sisters profoundly, but Chekhov’s exploration of limited lives, thwarted dreams and the decline of the liberal elites offers fertile ground for interpretation, all of which feels under-adapted for the context… Read More
NEWS: Summer and Smoke to Transfer to the Duke of York’s Theatre
Following an acclaimed run at the Almeida Theatre, it has been announced that Rebecca Frecknall’s production of Summer and Smoke will transfer to the Duke of York’s Theatre from the 10th November. Trapped between desire and a life of obligation, Alma meets John and her world turns upside down. This intoxicating classic about love, loneliness and self-destruction… Read More
Review Round Up: Summer and Smoke, Almeida Theatre
Love London Love Culture rounds up the reviews for Rebecca Frecknall’s production now playing at the Almeida Theatre… The Guardian: **** “Frecknall’s production, which at the start looked fashionably tricksy, by the end had me totally in its grip. It restores Williams’s wrongly neglected play to a central place in the canon.” The Times: *****… Read More
PREVIEW: Summer and Smoke, Almeida Theatre
Rebecca Frecknall’s production will play at the Almeida Theatre from the 24th February. Tennessee Williams’ play is a story of love, loneliness and self-destruction and wasn’t performed in London until October 2006 in Adrian Noble’s production starring Rosamund Pike and Chris Carmack at the Apollo Theatre. Now the Almeida Theatre will present this new production of Williams’… Read More