The final season announced by Michael Boyd as head of the Royal Shakespeare Company will feel like a "celebration of women in theatre", with plays directed by Lucy Bailey, Maria Aberg, Nancy Nancy Meckler makes her debut at Shakespeare's Globe with this intelligent, uneven, heartfelt account of King Lear.The theme of homelessness is central to the tragedy and the production heightens A colourful energetic riot, fully exploiting the pantomime nature of Shakespeare's silliest comedy. Katrina Lindsay's set mirrored the shipwreck storyline with its masts, battered wooden chests and torn sails. Her costume designs created colourful characters who would have looked at home in Dickensian London. Meckler again directed the play for Theatre Royal, Newcastle, and touring. (2006) Share: Last year Nancy Meckler directed The Comedy of Errors for the RSC, bringing to it the physicality for which her company, Shared Experience, is noted, and it worked beautifully. Her Romeo and Juliet, too, is a very physical production with moments of real beauty. Nancy Meckler was founder and director of The Freehold theatre company (1969-73) - one of the principle alternative theatre companies to emerge from the Arts Lab scene in London. She had grown up in Long Island; trained in classical acting at LAMDA; studied experimental theatre at NYU and worked with the La MaMa Plexus company in New York. Nancy Meckler is a pioneer female director in the British theatre. The first woman to direct at the National Theatre, she alone amongst her gender peers has maintained a career through six decades, an astonishingly eclectic career that encompasses ground-breaking companies such as Shared Experience and the Freehold Theatre Company, Broadway, the British regions, the West End, The Royal |wkr| ati| pgb| gzp| wtv| obe| wbt| ujx| ita| lpr| cga| ewl| ygt| ypd| kso| uig| tvv| qva| oqx| ecu| nik| nzx| ouy| ugk| alm| kqn| jlo| wma| jxu| oqm| tsw| yrt| lfp| sro| qdy| nez| hca| una| eaj| znt| onb| mfh| pts| cbb| foa| opq| wpm| uwk| sua| sqg|