Julia Rank

1 week ago | whatsonstage.com | Julia Rank

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1 week ago | londontheatre.co.uk | Julia Rank

An unexpected hot spell coincided with the opening of the first al fresco production of the year – which happens to be Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare’s heatwave of teenage passion and recklessness. Sean Holmes’s nifty production is set in the Wild West of the 19th century, where everyday violence pervades, and he also extracts the full comic potential of the play. The tragedy isn’t inevitable and things could have worked out very differently with more effective communication methods.

2 weeks ago | londontheatre.co.uk | Julia Rank

“Like Romeo and Juliet / It was written in the stars before they even met / That love and fate and a touch of stupidity would rob them of the hope of living happily” sings the title character in Matilda with a touch of exasperation. Star-crossed lovers are irresistibly dramatic and the idea stems from the idea that one’s fate is determined by the position of the stars and it’s impossible to alter what has been pre-ordained. Examples can be found from antiquity onwards.

2 weeks ago | londontheatre.co.uk | Julia Rank

Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick’s score for Fiddler on the Roof has been a beloved favourite since the show was first performed on Broadway in 1964. Set in a Russian shtetl in 1905, the musical tells the story of philosophical dairyman Tevye, his sharp-tongued wife Golde, and the romances of their three eldest daughters Tzeitel, Hodel, and Chava, with three very different suitors.

2 weeks ago | londontheatre.co.uk | Julia Rank

The beloved musical Fiddler on the Roof originated with Sholem Aleichem’s “Tevye the Dairyman” stories, written in Yiddish and published in 1894. Featuring a gruff but loveable patriarch, they deal with his financial ups and downs, his sometimes-fraught marriage to his sharp-tongued wife Golde, and his headstrong daughters’ love lives. The setting is an archetypal Eastern European Jewish village, or “shtetl”.