Richard Eyre

  • Henrik Ibsen & Richard Eyre – Ghosts: Almeida Theatre (2014)

    Richard Eyre2011-2020DramaHenrik IbsenPerformanceUnited Kingdom
    Ghosts Almeida Theatre (2014)
    Ghosts Almeida Theatre (2014)

    The Telegraph: “I trudged to this production with all the enthusiasm of a schoolboy making his way to a double maths lesson on a dank Monday morning.

    One of the peculiarities of my job is that you are sometimes required to see the same play twice in close proximity, and it was only last week that I endured Stephen Unwin’s punishingly dour production of Ghosts (1881) at the Rose Theatre in Kingston. The idea of a second dose of a work that is grim even by Ibsen’s demanding standards felt almost unendurable.Read More »

  • Richard Eyre – The Ploughman’s Lunch (1983)

    Drama1981-1990PoliticsRichard EyreUnited Kingdom

    “A writer displays a troubling streak of opportunism in his personal and professional lives in this British drama. As the Falkland Islands war rages, journalist and aspiring historical writer James Penfield (Jonathan Pryce) is working on a book that will examine the 1965 Suez crisis in a manner compatible with the current political climate. James is also pursuing Susan Barrington (Charlie Dore), a documentary filmmaker whose mother Ann (Rosemary Harris) is a noted expert on the Suez crisis and an outspoken leftist. While James has assured his publisher that his book will take a conservative view, he tells Susan and Ann that he’s a socialist and that his book will reflect that position as he attempts to glean information from them.Read More »

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