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FESTEN
Opened September 2004
| Festen Closed 16th April 2005 is a dramatization by David Eldridge, based on the Dogme film and play by Thomas Vinterberg, Mogens Rukov and Bo hr. Hansen. Directed by Rufus Norris with designs by Ian McNeil, costume designs by Joan Wadge, music by Orlando Gough and sound by Paul Arditti. Helge is sixty. His family return home to celebrate. His eldest son, the surviving twin, will raise the first toast. "Do you think you could say a few words about your sister this evening? I couldn't manage it." "Actually Dad, I've prepared something." Let the festivities begin...
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| FESTEN
Lyric Theatre
Shaftesbury Avenue, London, W1V 7HA.
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Nearest Tube: Piccadilly Circus. London Underground Tube Map
Opened 23 September 2004
Closed 16th April 2005
Performance Times:
Evenings: Monday to Saturday at 8.00pm
Matinees: Wednesday at 3.00pm and Saturday at 4.00pm
Performance length: 1 hour 50 mins approx
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Prices: (including booking fee and VAT)
Stalls £44.00 -£50.00
Dress Circle £50.00
Upper Circle £32,00
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| | What's New | Festen - Closed 16th April 2005 Festen at The Lyric Theatre has announced a four week extension up to 2 April 2005 This production was originally seen at the Almeida Theatre Cast for the Lyric Theatre run Jane Asher (Else), Sam Beazley (Grandfather), Sam Cox (Poul), Andrew Frame (Kim), Rory Kinnear (Michael), Luke Mably (Christian), Andrew Maud (Lars), Ruth Millar (Pia), Stephen Moore (Helge), Lisa Palfrey (Mette), Patrick Robinson (Gbatokai), Claire Rushbrook (Helene) and Michael Thomas (Helmut). |
| Theatre Review | Festen The sound of a gushing tap and the peals of a little girl's laughter at being tickled - which escalate into something more than borderline disturbing - haunt this quite phenomenally brilliant stage version of the Dogme film Festen... I am a huge fan of the people who have created this theatrical adaptation... But I frankly never thought they would come up with a stage adaptation that is a work of genius in its own right and on its own terms... Utterly essential viewing.
The Independent
...David Eldridge's adaptation heightens the work's element of black comedy... The brilliance of this version lies in the tension between the decorousness of the occasion and the dire nature of the revelations; and the horror is even more acute because of the heightened absurdity..." The Guardian
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