York Theatre Royal and Useful Donkey present
World Stage Premiere
ANGELS AND INSECTS
By A.S.Byatt
"This is quietly considered, quietly tempestuous, quietly intelligent theatre that rewards patience, like catching a butterfly."
York Press
"Forster has beautifully matched form to content...The cast and creative team bring an enthralling and deceptively deeply-felt story to teeming life."
British Theatre Guide
"I overheard one audience member use the word 'exquisite'. I urge anyone with even the slightest leaning towards drama to check out Angels & Insects, an excellent night at the theatre."
York Mix
"This is a beautifully-crafted piece of theatre."
Northern Echo
York Press
"Forster has beautifully matched form to content...The cast and creative team bring an enthralling and deceptively deeply-felt story to teeming life."
British Theatre Guide
"I overheard one audience member use the word 'exquisite'. I urge anyone with even the slightest leaning towards drama to check out Angels & Insects, an excellent night at the theatre."
York Mix
"This is a beautifully-crafted piece of theatre."
Northern Echo
"Rich, complex and thoughtful, Angels & Insects is an intelligent study into love, lust, fulfilment and the quest for happiness."
One and Other
"The playing is pitch-perfect...while the final image of purposeful love has an optimism worthy of Tennyson’s ever-striving, seeking Ulysses."
Reviews Gate
"Race and Hickman remain highly engaging throughout...Hickman seamlessly incorporating evocative cello accompaniment in to her role."
Whats On Stage
"Angels and Insects is a masterclass in inventive storytelling. Wonderful music, performances & constant re-invention of space."
"...stunning, simple & effective storytelling. Beautifully detailed performances. Great."
"...nearly 2hrs non stop of amazing story telling."
Audience comments
One and Other
"The playing is pitch-perfect...while the final image of purposeful love has an optimism worthy of Tennyson’s ever-striving, seeking Ulysses."
Reviews Gate
"Race and Hickman remain highly engaging throughout...Hickman seamlessly incorporating evocative cello accompaniment in to her role."
Whats On Stage
"Angels and Insects is a masterclass in inventive storytelling. Wonderful music, performances & constant re-invention of space."
"...stunning, simple & effective storytelling. Beautifully detailed performances. Great."
"...nearly 2hrs non stop of amazing story telling."
Audience comments
An Amazonian explorer and entomologist, returning home shipwrecked and penniless to Victorian England, is taken in by a wealthy aristocrat. Whilst employed to catalogue his benefactor’s collection of insects, he falls in love with the beautiful and mysterious daughter of the household.
However, this is not the rags to riches romance it first appears, and he discovers the family's perfect facade hides unexpectedly grim secrets, in a tale of lust, love and betrayal.
Using live music and storytelling, magic and illusion, the world is brought to life in this passionate and thought-provoking new stage adaptation of the story Morpho Eugenia by Booker Prize winning Yorkshire writer A.S Byatt.
The World Stage Premiere of 'Angels and Insects' opened at York Theatre Royal 11 April - 04 May
2013 UK Tour dates to be released soon...
Click here for more information!
However, this is not the rags to riches romance it first appears, and he discovers the family's perfect facade hides unexpectedly grim secrets, in a tale of lust, love and betrayal.
Using live music and storytelling, magic and illusion, the world is brought to life in this passionate and thought-provoking new stage adaptation of the story Morpho Eugenia by Booker Prize winning Yorkshire writer A.S Byatt.
The World Stage Premiere of 'Angels and Insects' opened at York Theatre Royal 11 April - 04 May
2013 UK Tour dates to be released soon...
Click here for more information!
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Useful Donkey presents
A DAY OF PLEASURE
By Isaac Bashevis Singer
New York. 1978. The cab driver is waiting to take him to the airport.
The evening before he travels to Stockholm to collect the Nobel Prize for Literature, Isaac Bashevis Singer – a passionate, brilliant storyteller – recalls a fascinating childhood full of mystery, torment and adventure.
A Day of Pleasure is about more than a young boy growing up in a strange and exotic world; it is about growing up itself.
Singer brings to life the vivid characters of pre-war Warsaw, his own character and the human conditions that affect us all.
Written by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Directed by Neil Sissons
Designed by Anna Gooch
Performed by Stuart Richman
Click here for more information!
The evening before he travels to Stockholm to collect the Nobel Prize for Literature, Isaac Bashevis Singer – a passionate, brilliant storyteller – recalls a fascinating childhood full of mystery, torment and adventure.
A Day of Pleasure is about more than a young boy growing up in a strange and exotic world; it is about growing up itself.
Singer brings to life the vivid characters of pre-war Warsaw, his own character and the human conditions that affect us all.
Written by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Directed by Neil Sissons
Designed by Anna Gooch
Performed by Stuart Richman
Click here for more information!
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