Directors Atri Banerjee (
@atri_rohan
) and
@rachel_bagshaw
have been awarded the Peter Hall bursaries by the National Theatre, though which they will be supported to develop work for the venue's stages
@rxtheatre
.
@OliverDowden
step UP. This theatre is one of the best in the world. It is unaccountably important for the population of Greater Manchester and the entire country’s art scene. Act now. DO BETTER
Congratulations to Atri Banerjee! Winner of Best Director, sponsored by
@SmithWilliamson
. The award is presented by multi-award winning theatre and film director, and current artistic director of the National Theatre, Rufus Norris.
#DebutAwards
Director Atri Banerjee (
@atri_rohan
) has revealed he was subject to a racist attack the night before starting rehearsals for Hobson's Choice, while praising Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre (
@rxtheatre
) for its "unequivocally brilliant" support
CALL OUT 📣 who are the producers and directors interested in making a) community work b) work engaging with the climate crisis c) generally experimental/weird/cool new forms (or any intersection of the above)?
Recs would be appreciated!! Feel free to say yourself ☺️🌎
My 9 year old cousin is about to play the part of ‘Fear’ in his Nativity play (clearly v avant-garde). I asked him if he had any insights on process? Without a beat : ‘first you learn the lines. Then you do the acting.’ 👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽
🔔🔔 after Britannicus, it’s back to Ancient Rome I go with
#JuliusCaesar
@TheRSC
!! 😭🤯
I used to watch shows at the RSC as a teenager so it’s a total honour to be directing my first professional Shakespeare there.
“Beware the Ides of March!”
So excited and grateful 🏛🔪😵
#JuliusCaesar
– opening 18 March
Shakespeare’s political thriller is directed by Atri Banerjee, and will tour nine venues across England after playing in Stratford – also featuring a Community Leaders’ Chorus of six women from each location.
🔗
Totally honoured to be included as one of
#TheStage25
, 25 theatremakers
@TheStage
“believe will go on to great things over the next quarter-century” (🤪) ty!
Especially humbled to be alongside brilliant collaborators, peers & friends. Community is key ✨
3 years in the making, 2 years delayed by covid... we're finally sharing The Glass Menagerie
@rxtheatre
on press night
it's amazing to be back at the theatre where I trained with a show I'm so proud of and means so much to me
proud of the whole INCREDIBLE company and team! 🦄
✨SUPER excited (and surprised!) to be directing my first main stage show
@rxtheatre
, Hobson's Choice, adapted by the legendary
@Tanika_Gupta
! Thank you especially to
@poojghai
for handing me the reins. Rehearsals start Monday!...✨
‘It’s a man’s world and you girls should keep within your boundaries and do as you’re told.’
@Tanika_Gupta
sparkling new version of HOBSON'S CHOICE of this classic comedy finds a new home amid Manchester's Nothern Quarter!
Tickets & info >>
✨😱 thrilled to be nominated for
@thestage
’s debut award for best director !!!
#DebutAwards
thank u to the whole Hobson's Choice fam and especially to
@rxtheatre
☺☺
We are delighted to announce the nominees for The Stage Debut Award for Best Director, sponsored by
@SmithWilliamson
are Atri Banerjee, Tyrone Huntley, Jade Lewis and Tom Scutt
#DebutAwards
.
Atri Banerjee (
@atri_rohan
) will direct Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie at Manchester Royal Exchange (
@rxtheatre
) as part of Sarah Frankcom's last season
So, in partnership with Holly’s Angels Food Hub and
@TheAlbanySE8
, we are delighted to announce that The Bunny has found its forever home with the children at Bunny Hop Day Nursery in Deptford.
Pictured: The Bunny with friends old and new (including Harm director
@Atri_Rohan
)🐰
Spent the day with family. As I’m leaving
7 yr old cousin: can you stay longer and play?
Me: I would love to I need to get the train back to London this evening though !!
7 yr old cousin: why? it’s not like you have a play to do?
Me: .........😭
@OliverDowden
pls send help
HOBSON'S CHOICE is directed by
@atri_rohan
. Having worked on numerous productions at the
@rxtheatre
(most recently as the Associate Director on WEST SIDE STORY) Atri is now stepping up to direct his first main house show! This is not to be missed >>
This play means so much to me!!
To bring it to life with the best team at the best theatre in the world is a total dream come true.
CANNOT WAIT 🤩😍🦄
@rxtheatre
There's no place like Rome!!
SO excited to be directing Racine's epic political thriller Britannicus
@LyricHammer
next year, adapted by the living LEGEND Timberlake Wertenbaker.
HBO eat your heart out 😏🤯😱🥵😵
In May we have Timberlake Wertenbaker’s adaptation of Jean Racine’s Roman tragedy Britannicus directed by Atri Banerjee, exploring monarchy, succession and divinity.
Today was meant to be day 1 for The Glass Menagerie
@rxtheatre
, so gonna commemorate the occasion by reading the whole play out loud to myself in my kitchen in Amanda Wingfield’s party dress this afternoon. If anyone wants to tune in on insta Live xo
1/ Ofc I feel relief at the bailout but it's hard not to still feel frustration at the govt: this bailout should have come sooner. This is not philanthropy on Sunak & Dowden's part: this is public money being spent to recover a hugely important sector of our economy.
"Atri Banerjee’s thrilling production.. shows us how old stories can be made terrifically new, with enough fearless imagination.... irresistible as a piece of theatre – a production of immense confidence and sass" 😭😭😭
Come see us
@LyricHammer
! 🐺🏛🔥
Shout out to the man in the audience tonight who stood up after the curtain call and yelled to his friends “That was FABULOUS. I feel like I’ve been ELECTROCUTED.”
6 shows left to catch Britannicus
@LyricHammer
, don’t miss ⚡️
👋🏽 Theatre director who'd love to connect with new collaborators - writers, producers, designers, lighting, sound, movement. Always interested in new plays and ideas, though would particularly love to do some devising and/or musical theatre. Please RT and hmu!! ✨
#OVConnect
✨ !!! over the moon to have been nominated for the
@UKTheatre
Award for best director!! So so overjoyed! ☺
None of it wd have been possible without the amazing work of
@poojghai
, who originally developed the show with
@Tanika_Gupta
, to whom I’m so grateful
"Time is the longest distance between two places..."
After more than two years, we're finally bringing you 'The Glass Menagerie'. A family in isolation while the world spins out of control around them...
And a dream season to be part of.
@rxtheatre
is back baby!🦄💛
We opened
#HarmthePlay
@bushtheatre
! Sending love to all theatre people opening shows this week. It's exciting but strange being with audiences again. Here's Kelly Gough with her enormous carrot-loving costar, complete with hand-san in the frame 🐇 we're right with you ❤️
★★★★ “Director Atri Banerjee does something astonishing. He takes this 80-year-old play, dusts it down and turns it inside out... he lets us see its tale of thwarted desire afresh” 😭😭
I’m SO PROUD of this show and the team who made it! 🦄❤️
Delighted to announce the cast for
@atri_rohan
THE GLASS MENAGERIE. Geraldine Somerville (Amanda) is joined by Joshua James (Tom), Rhiannon Clements (Laura) & Oseloka Obi (Jim).
------------------
More info here >>
To the little boy at Brixton station around 4.30pm who sighed v loudly "how is it already DARK"......... welcome to the same conversation you'll be having every winter for the rest of your life
“For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura — and so, goodbye.”
Goodbye, Glass Menagerie. You’ll always have a special place in my heart! ⚡️❤️
And for the last show of the season!
SHED: EXPLODED VIEW💔
Phoebe Eclair-Powell’s stunning new play was the 2019 winner of the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting & will be brought to the stage by award-winning director
@atri_rohan
!
🎭Directed by Atri Banerjee
📆 9 FEB – 2 MAR 24
About to start tech for Harm - a real live theatre show - and feeling a bit giddy. Come down
@bushtheatre
from next week (!) to see what we’ve been cooking up
Over the moon to be heading back up North with an iconic Northern story, KES! 🦅 (there is no kestrel emoji...)
Come see this moving and bruising story, about a boy and his bird, take flight... This spring
@octagontheatre
and
@tbtlake
.
Bring tissues 😭😭😭
📣 SPRING/SUMMER 2022 SEASON ANNOUNCED – priority booking now open for our Season Saver!
A world premiere, beloved classics, side-splittingly funny comedy & sensational new writing promise an unmissable programme!
Full line-up & book your Season Saver:
✨😱 We made a MOVIE! Harm, from the brain of the genius
@PhoebeEclair
, starring the glorious Leanne Best & made with a brilliant team, is part of
#BBCLightsUp
season. Ty
@bushtheatre
for the chance to direct my first film... 13-year-old Atri is still pinching himself! 😍☺️
I want Alice immediately. To suffer something unfortunate. To be friends with me… Both?
We are so excited that Leanne Best will be starring in
@PhoebeEclair
's Harm, directed by
@atri_rohan
, in the
#BBCLightsUp
Season.
Catch Harm on BBC Four and iPlayer on 13 Apr, 10.15-11.15pm
ok guys 😜 wasn’t planning on announcing now 😆 but here goes ☺️☺️❤️ my stage version of ‘basmati blues’ coming to the Lyttelton in 2022!! 😆can’t wait!!🥰🇮🇳
Thanks OD! Here's my five-step response
1. Scream into pillow
2. Stare into the void
3. Salt my cereal with my tears
4. Wonder about adapting into a piece of verbatim theatre for... 2021?? 2022? "A CLEAR PATHWAY BACK"
5. Quit despairing & keep the fight going to
#SaveOurTheatres
Culture secretary Oliver Dowden has revealed a five-step plan to reopen theatres, which he says provides a “clear pathway back”. It includes allowing open-air performances later this year and pilots for indoor shows
Was in a lift once with Ralph Fiennes wearing my colleague Emma's lanyard.
He pointed at my lanyard, said, "You're not Emma", I replied, "No... I'm not".
The rest of the lift ride was in silence.
Opening night in Melbourne. First time opening a show internationally. V glad it’s this one!! Chookas (as they say over here) to all 🇦🇺
@MPeakeOfficial
@melbfestival
★★★★ The Guardian ★★★★ The Stage ★★★★ Manchester Evening News ★★★★ Bolton News ★★★★ Manchester Theatres ★★★★ Opening Night ★★★★ Northern Arts Review ★★★★★ What’s Good to Do
Less than 2 weeks left to catch
#Kes
@tbtlake
. Get that train up! 🦅
Last year when I started rehearsals I was a victim of aggravated assault. This year there’s a global pandemic. Not saying it’s all about me guys but I think I must have drunk the opposite of that Harry Potter lucky potion somewhere along the line
😭😭 a bit emotional seeing that Harm has been listed as
#5
@guardian
's best theatre of 2021 (both the stage version and the film version)!
Congrats to the mad talented team who made both, I am so honoured... particularly the genius
@phoebeeclair
!
The Glass Menagerie was meant to be in 2020, we were all cast and ready to go.
Over 2 years later I am so thrilled that - for a play that’s so much about returns - all 4 members of that cast will come back
“Time is the longest distance between two places...”
Get booking 💕🦄
"If you found anything in these stories that resonated with you and helped you at any time in your life - then that is between you and the book that you read, and it is sacred"
Statement from Daniel Radcliffe. ❤️
#Kes
is open
@tbtlake
. I’ve had the best time with this beautiful company. Come see them soar until 30 April. Thanks and love to
@octagontheatre
too!! 🦅🥰❤️
Nowadays the world is lit by lightning! 🦄
Totally thrilled to say that The Glass Menagerie, which we performed at
@rxtheatre
last year, is coming back for a UK tour in spring 2024.
Stay tuned for more info and catch us on the road ❤️
The Glass Menagerie
A Rose Theatre, Alexandra Palace Theatre, and Belgrade Theatre production
in association with the Royal Exchange Theatre
17 April - 4 May 2024
By Tennessee Williams
Directed by Atri Banerjee
🎟️
📸
@brennerphotos
4th time in as many weeks that I’ve spotted esteemed playwright Sir Tom Stoppard around in different bits of London. Leads me to think.. either he’s of the impression that I’m stalking him OR the only other logical explanation is that IN FACT.... it is HE who is stalking ME 🧐🤔
The year is 2046. London is a blasted wasteland, devastated by plague and wildfire. From the ruins of the Palladium, the strains of ‘Think of Me’ can be heard on the breeze. It is ALW, gnawing on the bones of Cameron Mackintosh and singing. Alone. He was always alone.
Andrew Lloyd Webber is almost alone in his quest to bring back theatre. Why does he bother? ‘The trouble is I’m a fighter,’ he tells
@andrewbillen
#AndrewLloydWebber
Look at this cast!!!! 🔥🔥🔥🐺
Overjoyed to be working with these powerhouses - cast by the brilliant
@JackPug72
💕
#LyricBritannicus
starts rehearsing on Monday - let’s burn the house down 🔥
We are thrilled to announce the cast of
#LyricBritannicus
, the gripping political drama playing in London for the first time in over a decade.
Racine’s 1669 play feels fresh and relevant as ever in this translation by Timberlake Wertenbaker, directed by
@atri_rohan
.
THREAD ⬇️
@rxtheatre
.
@OliverDowden
step UP. This theatre is one of the best in the world. It is unaccountably important for the population of Greater Manchester and the entire country’s art scene. Act now. DO BETTER
💥 BIG NEWS!!! absolutely delighted and excited to be bringing back our show next year at
@rxtheatre
. Couldn't be prouder and can't wait for 2020!! 🔥✨💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾
ANNOUNCEMENT: We are thrilled to announce that our production of WEST SIDE STORY will return to the Royal Exchange Theatre in Spring 2020.
Tickets on-sale to Members now! Season Ticket holders 23 April & General Sale 30 April.
More info >>
Review: My Neighbour Totoro, Barbican ★★★★ awesome and adorable giant puppets (that we can't show you pictures of) bring Studio Ghibli’s masterpiece to the stage in the RSC’s delightful blockbuster
Excited for the post-corona Romeo & Juliets where “a plague...on both your houses” is delivered with an five minute pregnant pause and maybe a knowing glance at the audience.
📢✨Extraordinary opportunity alert✨ calling those aged 18+ interested in directing/writing. Award-winning director Atri Banerjee is conducting a free, interactive workshop about 'directing the classics' on 26 October.
Find out more:
The amazing
@Purple_Terp
!!
Catch Clare live on stage performing in Julius Caesar (playing ALL the parts 😱). BSL integrated performances every Friday on tour! Next stop: Newcastle 😎
It's press night tonight! Take a look at these gorgeous photos courtesy of
@brennerphotos
. Couldn't be prouder. So much love to the whole company and team 💖
With press night just around the corner, take a look at these stunning production photos for HOBSON'S CHOICE! Book your tickets here >>
Photos by
@brennerphotos
DESIGNER Rosa Maggiora
SOUND DESIGNER & COMPOSER Arun Ghosh
LIGHTING DESIGNER Matt Haskins
We are thrilled to announce the cast of our upcoming co-production of Kes!
Jake Dunn, Harry Egan & Nishla Smith star in this poignant coming of age story.
Barry Hines’ powerful modern classic drama comes to Bolton from Thu 10 Mar – Sat 2 Apr.
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