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Daisy Edgar-Jones on the advice Paul Mescal gave ahead of her return to stage

The actress is starring in a Tennessee Williams play in December

Evening Standard

Daisy Edgar-Jones to star in new production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Rebecca Frecknall will direct Normal People actor in Tennessee Williams classic at Almeida theatre in London, opening in December

The Guardian - UK

Eddie Redmayne’s Emcee performance has caused uproar – but there is more to this Cabaret than meets the eye

Eddie Redmayne’s performance at the 2024 Tony Awards in June has been a hot topic among theatre fans. British director Rebecca Frecknall’s imaginative revival of Cabaret (1966) opened in London in 2021 and on Broadway in April 2024. Broadway critics have not been as overwhelmingly positive as London’s – and…

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Julie review – Rebecca Frecknall’s sensational take on Strindberg

The British director of Cabaret and A Streetcar Named Desire makes a gripping debut with the acclaimed Dutch company

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Macbeth; The House of Bernarda Alba – review

Ralph Fiennes and Indira Varma are magnetic murderers in Simon Godwin’s bleakly immersive warehouse production, while Harriet Walter commands the stage in Rebecca Frecknall’s stylish, if underheated Lorca

The Guardian - UK

The House of Bernarda Alba review – Harriet Walter rules as Lorca gets a refurb

Adapted by Alice Birch and directed by Rebecca Frecknall, this is a stylised study in control and daughterly disobedience

The Guardian - UK

The House of Bernarda Alba at the National Theatre review: a study of repression horribly relevant to today

Harriet Walter cleaves through the teeming action like a dreadnought

Evening Standard

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Patsy Ferran and Anjana Vasan: the Evening Standard Theatre Awards Best Actresses on their winning sister act

The pair were gobsmacked when they were both named as joint winners

Evening Standard

Patsy Ferran on stage stardom, performing with Paul Mescal, and Pygmalion: ‘I only ever watched the first 75 per cent of My Fair Lady’

She stepped in to play Blanche to Paul Mescal’s Stanley at the 11th hour. Now she’s taking on her childhood dream role of Eliza Doolittle. Andrzej Lukowski talks to Patsy Ferran, the most exciting stage actor of her generation

The Independent UK

‘Raring to take on this challenge’: musicians Jake Shears and Self Esteem to star in Cabaret

The Scissor Sisters singer will play the Emcee while Self Esteem will make her theatrical debut as Sally Bowles in Rebecca Frecknall’s Olivier-winning musical

The Guardian - UK

The rise of actor Patsy Ferran: ‘I’m a bit of a duck: calm on the surface…’

She cancelled her honeymoon to star in A Streetcar Named Desire with four days’ notice – then won the 2023 Critics’ Circle best actress award. She talks to the Observer’s theatre critic, an early champion, about her next move

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Romeo and Juliet; When Winston Went to War With the Wireless; Groundhog Day – review

Danger stalks the radiant lovers in Rebecca Frecknall’s tumultuous, twilit Romeo and Juliet; a 1920s battle for the soul of BBC radio couldn’t be more timely; and Groundhog Day, once more with feeling

The Guardian - UK

The Week on Stage: From Romeo and Juliet to When Winston Went to War with the Wireless

A guide to the week’s theatre

The Independent UK

Romeo and Juliet review – Rebecca Frecknall’s dance to the death

This innovative, fast-paced production of Shakespeare’s tragedy, starring Toheeb Jimoh and Isis Hainsworth, has a beguiling intensity

The Guardian - UK

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Evening Standard

Romeo and Juliet at the Almeida review: relentless retelling makes us see this familiar story with fresh eyes

Ted Lasso’s Toheeb Jimoh as Romeo and Isis Hainsworth as Juliet suggest the characters share a fascination that goes beyond carnal passion

Evening Standard

Toheeb Jimoh on his Romeo at the Almeida, meeting Thierry Henry and the Ted Lasso effect

‘I’m doing things I didn’t know I could do before’

The Guardian - UK

‘I want it to feel quite feral’: Rebecca Frecknall on staging Romeo and Juliet

From Cabaret to Streetcar, the West End’s hottest director Rebecca Frecknall has a reputation for finding leads who put bums on seats. ‘I just go on my gut,’ she says

The Independent UK

Olivier Awards 2023: Paul Mescal and Jodie Comer scoop top prizes on the night

Both actors took home biggest awards after earning rave reviews in their West End debuts

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Evening Standard

Streetcar director Rebecca Frecknall: ‘I thought Paul Mescal was too young for Stanley but Brando was only 27’

Since her breakthrough show in 2018, Frecknall has gone from being virtually unknown to one of theatre’s most in-demand directors

The Guardian - UK

Patsy Ferran on pairing up with Paul Mescal in Streetcar: ‘The nerves just skyrocketed’

The actor had just a week to rehearse for A Streetcar Named Desire. Fortunately, her turn as tragic belle Blanche DuBois has audiences enchanted

The Guardian - UK

A Streetcar Named Desire with Paul Mescal transfers to West End

Critically acclaimed and now boasting an Oscar nominee, the Almeida’s Tennessee Williams production will move to the Phoenix theatre this spring

The Independent UK

A Streetcar Named Desire starring Paul Mescal announces West End transfer after actor’s Oscar nomination

‘It’s my favourite play and it’s wonderful to be able to share it with a wider audience,’ Mescal said

The Independent UK

A Streetcar Named Desire production announces West End extension after Paul Mescal’s Oscar nomination

‘It’s my favourite play and it’s wonderful to be able to share it with a wider audience,’ Mescal said

Evening Standard

Paul Mescal was banned from wearing vest on set of A Streetcar Named Desire

The director of A Streetcar Named Desire said she told Normal People star Paul Mescal she had not watched his show — and then banned him from wearing a white vest like Marlon Brando.

The Independent UK

A Streetcar Named Desire: Paul Mescal’s cruel Stanley leaves Normal People’s gold chain in tatters

The ‘Aftersun’ actor gives an entrancing performance in Rebecca Frecknall’s intense Tennessee Williams revival at the Almeida

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