As we unlock, here’s the last of our sneak peaks of unseen footage from the archive.
In my film, Dame Paula Rego talks about her meeting with L S Lowry when she was a student at the Slade. It’s so fascinating. Lowry admired her innovative work, but he himself was ostracised for being an outsider, for “his stick people” and for being a Northerner, as he walked about in his long black coat. Precisely the things we love about him now…
“AFTERPLAY” is a play about what happens after – inspired by the great Russian playwright writer Anton Chekhov, and written by Brian Friel, widely recognised as one of Ireland’s greatest dramatists. In his masterful one act play Friel (1929 – 2015) revisits two iconic characters created by Chekhov (1860 – 1904) from “Three Sisters” and “Uncle Vanya”, and hauntingly evokes what might have happened next.
“Afterplay” starring Rory Keenan, premiered in early March at The Coronet Theatre in London. Our contributor, Margy Kinmonth was lucky enough to catch it before the production was forced to close due to the Coronavirus pandemic. The theatre went dark and many involved either caught Covid19 or were furloughed, but the taste of this play remained strongly in her mind. With all that is going on, what is it really about? […]
