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Savage Messiah: Ken Russell / Altered States in Chicago, USA
« Last post by Iain Fisher on September 18, 2025, 08:07:47 PM »
Music Box Theatre present Altered States on 19 September 2025.

"In an attempt to experience higher mental and physical states, psychology professor Edward Jessup (William Hurt) combines sensory deprivation and psychotropic drugs to try to unlock higher states of consciousness. But as Edward is more successful with his experiments, he starts to lose grip with reality and alters his state of mind.  This daring Hollywood film from Ken Russell (The Devils, The Music Lovers) attacks the viewer with lo-fi effects, immersive sound, and a relentless story that combine to overwhelm the viewer's senses".

For the Music Box Theatre click here
https://musicboxtheatre.com/
For more on Altered States click here
https://www.iainfisher.com/russell/ken-russell-film-altered-states.html



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Sarah Kane discussion / Re: update to Blasted
« Last post by Iain Fisher on September 15, 2025, 04:02:55 PM »
Hi Leland,

Thanks for this and I have updated the page
https://iainfisher.com/kane/eng/kane-live-chronology.html

If you have any photos etc of the performance they are welcome.

I like the "Don't Point" comment.

Iain
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Sarah Kane discussion / Re: update to Blasted
« Last post by Leland Kean on August 25, 2025, 01:21:12 AM »
Hello Iain, I'd just like to add a note to your archives of Sarah's work that Blasted had its Australian premiere in 1997. I directed the work at NIDA. My partner at the time met Sarah in London and she was blown away that the work had reached Australia. She also passed on only one note to me about directing the production- Don't Point.
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Athol Fugard discussion / "Master Harold"... and the Boys in the USA
« Last post by Iain Fisher on August 18, 2025, 05:57:32 PM »
Santa Cruz Shakespeare present "Master Harold"... and the Boys from 4 - 20 September 2025.

The director is Rebecca Haley Clark under the stage management of Daniel J Hanson, with dramaturgy by Susan Myer Silton.

The players are Corey Jones, Nick Rossi and Elliot Sagay.

"As we watch the massive shifts in the world rock the very foundations beneath our feet, we are confronted with a call to action: What am I going to do about all this?  Working on Master Harold…and the Boys, has further solidified that gnawing question of what would I do if I were in those circumstances, the question that always reveals itself during times of immense change and social upheaval. Who am I really? This play forces us to consider three different time periods. 1950. The time period of the play itself, just after the enactment of the system of apartheid in South Africa. 1982. The time period in which the play was written, less than a decade before the official end of apartheid. And 2025. The here. The now. The crossroads".

Thanks to Susan for the information.

For the theatre website click here
https://santacruzshakespeare.org/
For more on the play click here
https://iainfisher.com/fugard/athol-fugard-plays-port-elizabeth.html

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Athol Fugard discussion / Re: Falls the Shadow in Chichester, UK
« Last post by Iain Fisher on August 15, 2025, 08:46:45 PM »
Chichester Cinema are showing the film Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard on 17 Aug 2025.  Recommended.

"To celebrate Fugard's life and work, Tony Palmer made the first ever profile of this incredible man whose energy showed no sign of diminishing well into his 80s. Palmer plumbs the soul of Fugard through interviews with the playwright and those who knew and admired him, as well as presenting excerpts from some of his most significant plays".

Tony Palmer will also be present after for a Q&A session.

For the cinema website click here
https://chichestercinema.org/
For more on Athol Fugard click here
https://www.iainfisher.com/fugard/athol-fugard.html


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Athol Fugard discussion / Presley Chweneyagae passes away
« Last post by Iain Fisher on July 25, 2025, 10:18:50 AM »
Presley Chweneyagaeanta has passed away aged 40.  He played Tsotsi in Gavin Hood's film of Fugard's novel.  A powerful performance.

For more on the films click here.
https://iainfisher.com/fugard/fugard-film.html



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Savage Messiah: Ken Russell / Peter Philips passes away
« Last post by Iain Fisher on July 07, 2025, 07:28:51 PM »
Peter Philips, one of the artists in Ken Russell's Pop Goes the Easel, has sadly passed away.

"Phillips rose to prominence in the 1960s, and was featured in a BBC documentary titled Pop Goes the Easel alongside Peter Blake and Pauline Boty in 1962. His fame was bolstered by his inclusion in international exhibitions, including the Paris Biennale in 1963 and “Nieuwe Realisten” at the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague the following year. In 1964, Phillips moved to New York, where he exhibited alongside Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and James Rosenquist"- Maxwell Rabb, 2 Jul 2025, Artsy website - click here
https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-british-pop-artist-peter-phillips-dies-83).

For more on Pop Goes the Easel click here
https://iainfisher.com/russell/ken-russell-tv-monitor-classics.html


The image is of the cover of The Cars' Heartbeat City album designed by Philips
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Savage Messiah: Ken Russell / Kenneth Colley passes away
« Last post by Iain Fisher on July 03, 2025, 03:34:18 PM »
Kenneth Colley, a Russell regular, has passed away aged 87.


Colley first worked with Ken Russell on The Music Lovers playing Tchaikovsky's brother Modeste.  For me his best role.


He went on to act in The Devils, Mahler, Lisztiomania and The Rainbow as well as the television film Prisoner of Honour from 1991 playing Dreyfus.

He worked in over 150 cinema and television films including roles in Monty Python's Life of Brian and The Empire Strikes Back.
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Savage Messiah: Ken Russell / Crimes of Passion in UK
« Last post by Iain Fisher on June 23, 2025, 09:03:19 AM »
The Cinema Museum in London present Crimes of Passion on 23 July 2025.

"Controversial on release in 1984, the erotic thriller Crimes Of Passion proved to be a turning point in Ken Russell’s career. Screening from a 16mm archival print, this is a rare chance to see Kathleen Turner’s fearless performance as a Reagan-era businesswoman who moonlights as a sex worker.  But this is no mere tale of a fallen angel, as Russell heightens the religious anxiety, psychic repression, and visual splendour to deliver a fantasia of late-20th century anxiety".

For the Cinema Museum website click here
http://www.cinemamuseum.org.uk/
For more on Crimes of Passion click here
https://iainfisher.com/russell/ken-russell-film-crimes-of-passion.html


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Steven Berkoff discussion / The Trial in Prague
« Last post by Iain Fisher on June 05, 2025, 07:39:33 PM »
La Fabrika present Steven Berkoff's adaptation of The Trial in Prague on 14, 16 and 17 June 2025.  The production is IN ENGLISH.

The Director is Martin Murín and the Assistant director is Eliška Challise. The actors are Nika Arriesgado, Kevin Michael Clarke, Omar Dahy, Luboš Duda, Mikuláš Ma?ík, Vasilina Pazdnikova, Oleh Petrušenko, Martín Dávalos Ramos, Pavla Rou?ková, Martina Seidlová, Daria Shudrenko, Anastasia Sultangirova, Eleonora Yusupbaeva, Zden?k Zadražil, Myrto Zacharaki and Charles Simos Zeind.

"Patrn? u?inil n?kdo na Josefa K. k?ivé udání, nebo? byl, aniž by se dopustil n??eho zlého, jednou ráno zat?en. Tak je K, zdánliv? bezvýznamný bankovní prokurista, uvržen v nutnost dokázat svoji nevinu. První na ?ad? je ovšem zjistit, z ?eho že je to vlastn? obvin?n - protože jen tak mu to rozhodn? nikdo nesd?lí! Sledujeme jeho cestu systémem, který se jeví tím více skli?ujícím, ?ím mén? logickým, kde je každý posedlý svým postavením, a rozum dušen morbidními absurdnostmi. The Drama Queens svou osobitou obrazností, i humorem, budují Proces jako nitern? zneklid?ující podívanou zkoumající pojmy osobní viny, moci a svobody jednotlivce".

The theatre website is here
https://www.lafabrika.cz/cs/
For more on The Trial click here
https://iainfisher.com/berkoff/berkoff-play-adaptation-kafka.html



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