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In the Wings
Laughing in the Dark | The Dresser | Barbara Streisand | President | Shaw Theatre | Pentameters | The Glass Bottle and the Child
A VENTRILOQUIST struggles to survive in a Nazi concentration camp in Laughing in the Dark at the New End this month.
Graeme Messer, who grew up in apartheid South Africa, plays the comic living on a knife’s edge; his dummy, Chester – Messer’s foil since the age of 13 – takes the role, improbably, of the dummy. The show is at the theatre in Hampstead until November 2.
BY turns the confidante, amanuensis, and whipping boy of the theatrical world, the dresser creates the star every night before the curtain rises on an expectant audience.
Ronald Harwood’s biographically-inspired play The Dresser offers a behind-the-scenes look at this world of back-handed bitchiness and the peculiar relationship between actor and dresser. Tower Theatre Company’s production is at the Bridewell Theatre at 7.45pm, October 28-November 1
BARBRA Streisand running for president. Surely some mistake? Yes, actually; on closer inspection this is Steven Brindberg, a man in a dress with an uncanny resemblance to the dewy-eyed diva. Brindberg has impersonated Ms Streisand for so long he’s better at Barbra than she is, some say. You can see him – or her – singing, story-telling and opining about politics at The Shaw from October 28-30, 7.30pm.
THE season of psychedelic plays and happenings by the late Hawkwind frontman Robert Calvert continues at Pentameters.
The Glass-Bottle and The Child, written by Emma D’Arcy, a friend of Calvert’s, and the singer’s own Mirror, Mirror, penned for his friend Helen Mirren, both join the billing from October 28-November 9. Cattle at Twilight, a fantasy about Noel Coward and Jimi Hendrix, is thrown in for good measure. |
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