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

Thanks very much for all that on my films and videos, Iain.

Yep. I'll be out here chipping away on the new feature length, like Gaudier-Brezka and the marathon chiselling of the marble statue in Ken's "Savage Messiah".

There is a marvellous documentary out there called "Alien On Stage" (2020). About a community theatre project mounted by some Dorset bus drivers. Someone then sponsored the production for one performance in the West End. See the film. By the end you will be cheering for them like everyone in that West End audience. Serendipitously, I have been invited to attend a Q & A with the troupe at a showing of the documentary in a few months and see the film all over again. Like Gandalf amongst better informed Hobbits I am looking forward to it and meeting them enormously. You must see the film. It reflects the creative spirit and the determined and loving teamwork that went into the original film, which itself was handmade and did yeoman work on a penny budget and you will appreciate that I am sure. It has a huge handmade heart, and as you are also a theatre man, I am sure you will like it. Enjoy!

Having said that, take care and thank you again, Iain. I'll pop up with info as and when it is appropriate, but my all means, in the upcoming lengthy productive interim, you may wish me luck.

Keep Your Sense Of Wonder, guys.

Jon

www.jonsorensencreative.com

The season at the Prince Charles Cinema in London continues, including with Rupert Russell:



Altered States with an intro by son Rupert Russell 28 May 2025
The Lair of the White Worm 11 June 2025

The cinema website is here
https://princecharlescinema.com/
For more on the films click here
https://iainfisher.com/russell/ken-russell-film.html

Santa Cruz Shakespeare present "Master Harold"... and the Boys from 4 - 20 September 2025.

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

The Vista Theatre Hollywood present Altered States on 30, 21 May 2025.

"It's the late 1960's. Just for a lark, graduate student Eddie Jessup, known for being unconventional, brilliant and slightly mad, conducts experiments with an isolation chamber, using himself as the subject. His experiences in the chamber cause him to hallucinate, much of the imagery being religious-based despite he not being a religious man. Seven years later, he is a respected full professor in the Harvard Medical School. Believing he has lost his edge and has fallen into an unwanted state of respectability, Eddie decides to resume his work with sensory deprivation, this time using hallucinogens, specifically untested ones used in mystical Mexican rituals, to enhance the experience of being in the isolation tank. After initial tests, he claims he entered an alternate physical and mental state".

Foe the theatre website click here
https://www.vistatheaterhollywood.com/
For more on Altered States click here.
https://iainfisher.com/russell/ken-russell-film-altered-states.html