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KATIE MITCHELL |
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Plays by Katie Mitchell |
After Dido | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
Company: | Young Vic / ENO | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #95713 | |||
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Genre: | Opera | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 11 other parts | |||||
Notes: | A live music and film performance inspired by Purcell's Dido and Aeneas | |||||
Synopsis: | This time around, Miss Mitchell is working with ENO on one of the earliest English operas, Dido and Aeneas, to mark the 350th anniversary of the birth of its composer, Henry Purcell. The music, played on period instruments directed from the harpsichord by Christian Curnyn, is gorgeous, as is the singing led by soprano Katherine Manley and mezzo Susan Bickley. There is also a real surprise, as the team of film and sound technicians suddenly burst into mellifluous song. The film and sound work is immaculate and surprising as ever, simultaneously showing the underlying components and their results. The story is where one might easily get lost, having a very limited amount to do with the love affair between the Carthaginian queen and her exiled Trojan paramour. The film quietly tells three apparently unconnected stories of Home Counties loneliness. Sandy McDade, a champion when it comes to depicting despair, plays a desolate lady who has just lost her husband. Amanda Hale is a younger woman whose life and love has reached such a nadir that she ends up taking the familiar exit combination of pills and spirits. Finally, Dominic Rowan and Helena Lymbery play a couple whose relationship might be on the rocks but moving towards reconciliation, though it is impossible to guarantee that that is the subject. | |||||
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Beauty and the Beast | ||
| 1st Produced: | National Theatre, Cottesloe, South Bank, London. SE1 9PX >>> | 24 Nov 2010 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1848421578 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #121715 | |||
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Genre: | Family Show | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | devised by Katie Mitchell and Lucy Kirkwood, book by Lucy kirkwood | |||||
Synopsis: | Wild and lively, the production explodes with music and magic, story-book sets, shadow puppetry and a 150-piece orchestra in an 18-inch box! | |||||
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Cat In The Hat, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | National Theatre, Cottesloe, South Bank, London. SE1 9PX >>> | 16 Dec 2009 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #110302 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | from the book by Dr Seuss | |||||
Synopsis: | From the moment his tall, red-and-white-striped hat appears around the door, Sally and her brother know that the cat in the hat is the funniest, most mischievous cat they have ever met. With the trickiest of tricks and craziest of ideas, he is certainly fun to play with. And he turns a rainy afternoon into an amazing adventure. But what will mum find when she gets home. . .? The National Theatre's production of The Cat in the Hat is a lively, engaging first theatre experience for 3-6-yearolds. | |||||
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Dream Play, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London, 2005 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #48857 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - August Strinberg. tr. Caryl Churchill, adap. Katie Mitchell and the company | |||||
Synopsis: | Written in 1902, A Dream Play is a mysterious amalgam of Freud, Alice in Wonderland and Strindberg's own private symbolism. It follows the logic of a dream, in which characters merge into each other, locations change in an instant and a locked door becomes an obsessive recurrent image. | |||||
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Mysteries, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Other Place Theatre, Stratford, UK | 1997 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #24458 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written with Edward Kemp | |||||
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some trace of her | ||
| 1st Produced: | 30 Jul 2008 | |||||
Company: | National Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #83547 | |||
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Genre: | multi media Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Inspired by The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky and adapted by Katie Mitchell and the company from the translation by David Magarshack and poems of Emily Dickinson | |||||
Synopsis: | A woman lies dead on a bed in her wedding dress, a silver knife through her heart. The two men who loved her lie beside her. | |||||
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Waves | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
Company: | National Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #58861 | |||
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Genre: | Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | devised by Katie Mitchell and the company, from novel by Virginia Woolf | |||||
Synopsis: | The Waves is an exploration of group consciousness, tracking a band of friends from childhood to old age and death through a series of self-communing monologues, interspersed by impersonal bulletins on the progress of the sun as it interacts through the course of the day with the sea. Though there are a number of stage-like elements to the book, it is actually very difficult to pull off as a theatre piece. Mitchell's ingenious and incrementally moving solution is to go for broke. Just as Woolf's book beats its head against the bars of the conventional novel of character and narrative, so Mitchell's production deliberately bangs its brow against the limitations of the theatre of permanent long-shot and crisply defined roles. The excellent company of actors are shown manning a cross between a recording studio, replete with sound effect props, and a television studio, where we watch people being filmed for the simultaneous and surreally intense close-up shots. The piece is about the extent of our profound craving to feel part of a wholeness greater than individuality and the contrasting strength of our compulsion to retain the ego that feels jealousy, social insecurity and sexual infatuation. | |||||
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