Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby
A doff of the cap to Rambert’s inventive director Benoit Swan Pouffer for teaming up with Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight and the late Benjamin Zephaniah to ship this blistering prequel to the road gang’s saga. Successful in 2022, it introduced dance to an enormous new viewers and heads again out on tour this autumn, however a model filmed on the Hippodrome, within the gang’s residence turf Birmingham, is on BBC iPlayer.
Prima Facie
After offered out runs within the West Finish and Broadway, and an exceptional success with NT Dwell, Jodie Comer reprises her Olivier and Tony award-winning position as a barrister in a brand new audiobook model. Suzie Miller’s examine of sexual assault and a damaged authorized system is out there from Audible on 14 March.
The Magic Finger
In 2020, the Unicorn launched a disgustingly pleasant theatrical studying of The Twits. Now it presents a model of certainly one of Roald Dahl’s lesser-known tales, The Magic Finger, directed by Milli Bhatia and carried out by Corinna Brown and Lucy Mangan. Accessible free for 12 months from the Unicorn’s web site.
They
They, Kay Dick’s 1977 dystopian novel about inventive repression, “very delicately describes the asset-stripping of tradition” director Sarah Frankcom advised the Guardian earlier than staging it at Manchester’s John Rylands Library in 2022. “It feels proper to do that in a spot which is a type of church of artwork and a church of studying.” Carried out by Maxine Peake, with motion route by Imogen Knight, it’s launched on Manufacturing facility Worldwide’s on-line platform Manufacturing facility+ on 9 March.
Full Works: Hamlet
Who wants star casting? The Prince of Denmark is performed by a long-necked bottle, Ophelia is a vase of roses, Polonius is a tragic iron and Claudius is a container of flea powder in Pressured Leisure’s model of the tragedy, carried out by Terry O’Connor utilizing family objects. The corporate’s full assortment of irreverent, insightful and addictive “tabletop Shakespeares” is now free on-line.
To Da Bone
“5, 6, 7, 8!” They usually’re off – a crew of jumpstyle dancers in trackie tops, shifting by way of throng, line and ring formations to an explosive finale that’s all angular limbs and blistering beats. Choreographed by hip French collective (La)Horde, who’re at London’s Southbank Centre this month, To Da Bone is on YouTube, with an accompanying documentary.
Star on the Rise: La Bayadère … Reimagined!
Marius Petipa’s problematic Nineteenth-century traditional turns into the backstage drama of a Hollywood western. Phil Chan, whose initiative Ultimate Bow for Yellowface goals to eradicate stereotypes of Asians in ballet, co-stages with dance historian and musicologist Doug Fullington. Indiana College Bloomington current three livestreams from 29-30 March.
Barnes’ Folks
Peter Barnes’s monologues, written for BBC Radio within the Eighties, have been first launched in 2021 as a part of Unique Theatre’s digital choices throughout the pandemic. Now they’re again on-line, bringing collectively a positive forged: Jon Culshaw, Matthew Kelly, Jemma Redgrave and (within the controversial True Born Englishman) Adrian Scarborough.
A Shut Approximation of You
The playwright and trainer Oliver Emanuel, who died aged 43 from mind most cancers final 12 months, left behind a richly reflective physique of labor for stage and radio. This hour-long audio drama, on BBC Sounds, is a becoming tribute because it explores the speculation of a mirror model of our world.
Unseen
The Unseen is the title of a 2022 report by the Imaginative and prescient Basis into blind and partially sighted individuals’s experiences of home abuse. Now, its findings have impressed an audio drama, directed by Ben Wilson for theatre firm Extant, asking: “The place will we flip when those who’re supposed to like and look after us are the very individuals we’re most afraid of?” Accessible from 4 March.
