#Melanie-joyce Bermudez

[willstafford]

Wit to Woo

LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford upon Avon, Thursday 25th April 2024 Three men and a King pledge to devote the next three years of their lives to study, abstinence and celibacy.  Of course, as soon as the oath is signed, along come four beauties on a diplomatic mission.  Each of the men starts writing love notes and poems to one of the beauties, behind his confederates’…

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#Abiola Owokoniran #Amy Griffiths #Brandon Bassir #Eric Stroud #Jack Bardoe #Joanna Kimbook #Jordan Metcalfe #Love&039;s Labour&039;s Lost #Luke Thompson #Melanie-joyce Bermudez #Nathan Foad #review #Royal Shakespeare Theatre #RSC #Sarita Gabony #Tony Gardner #William Shakespeare

[ken-branagh]

King Lear curtain call

William Shakespeare's King Lear (directed and played by Sir Kenneth Branagh) at Wyndham's Theatre in London's West End, October 22 - November 2 2023.

Playing from October 21 - December 9 2023, 50 performances only. Ken (King Lear) is joined by Mara Allen as Curan, Deborah Alli as Goneril, Raymond Anum as Burgundy, Melanie‑Joyce Bermudez as Regan (RADA graduate 2023, professional debut), Doug Colling as Edgar, Dylan Corbett‑Bader as France, Eleanor de Rohan as Kent, Chloe Fenwick‑Brown as Oswald (RADA graduate 2023, professional debut), Joseph Kloska as Gloucester, Corey Mylchreest as Edmund, Hughie O'Donnell as Cornwall, Caleb Obediah as Cornwall, Jessica Revell as Cordelia / The Fool (RADA graduate 2023).

Source: Jenny_McShane, theothersophiet (via coreymbrasil), zerrintekindor, core_mylchreest

#king lear #king lear (2023) #kenneth branagh #william shakespeare #theatreedit #*theatre #corey mylchreest #doug colling #melanie‑joyce bermudez #deborah alli #caleb obediah #eleanor de rohan #joseph kloska #dylan corbett‑bader #kinglearedit #*edit #i wish i could see it! <3 #it looks amazing and captivating #reportedly it's fast-paced at 2hrs #and ken shines yet again <3<3 #always giving RADA graduates a start <3

[shakespearenews]

Given the opportunity, Branagh abridges everyone’s lines except his own. Much like the Guardian’s columnist, I found it surprising to encounter a Lear with abs – and not by accident. Branagh’s muscles seemed to have been deliberately contoured with mud to add maximum definition, as if in a Kardashian make-up video. This is ego, not theatre...

...For me, this was a reminder of Branagh at his worst and at his best. He shines as a talent-spotter, nurturing young British actors. Yes, his Lear was preposterous. But did you notice Jessica Revell, making her West End debut in the dual role of Cordelia and the Fool? Or her fellow 2023 RADA graduate Melanie-Joyce Bermudez, who was often electrifying as Regan?

Branagh has taken full advantage of his presidency of RADA to give opportunities to its brightest students – Jessie Buckley’s Perdita in his 2015 The Winter’s Tale was pivotal to her career. Eleanor de Rohan, here playing Kent, is another talented recent graduate who owes much to Branagh – I first saw her as Guildenstern while she was still at the school, when Branagh directed Hamlet with its students. (Tom Hiddleston, another Branagh RADA protégé, made a superb return in the title role.) Branagh’s mentoring of RADA’s finest is something to celebrate – the only ethical question is whether other drama schools have cause to complain.

#shakespeare #william shakespeare #ken branagh #lear #king lear #mentorship #kate maltby #lear with abs #rada #teaching #studens

[antipolin]

Bridgerton star Luke Thompson reveals an appetite for for high jinks and tomfoolery as Berowne, the King of Navarre’s chief attendant and fellow scholar who, along with two fellow young lords, promises to forswear women for three years. This is Shakespeare’s early romantic comedy Love’s Labour’s Lost, and Thompson provides just the right comic touch to pull it off. He and his fellow castmates seem very much at home in director Emily Burns’ version, which she places in a swanky spa called Navarre nestled on a South Pacific island. It’s the perfect curtain raiser for the Royal Shakespeare Company’s new co-artistic directors Daniel Evans and Tamara Harvey, who opened Burns’ production at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon on Thursday night. The choice of play was smart. For starters it made sense to open with a Shakespeare. Would have been a bit daft to present a Noel Coward. And that it’s one of the Bard’s lighter works rather then one of his tragedies is a good thing. There’s time enough in future seasons for heavies like Lear and Macbeth. Thompson also shows off his romantic chops to good effect in Season 3 of Bridgerton. Fellow actors in Love’s Labour’s Lost include Abiola Owokoniran, Eric Stroud, Brandon Bassir, Jack Bardot, Melanie-Joyce Bermudez, Ivanna Kimbook, Amy Griffiths, Sarita Gabon, Jordan Metcalfe, Jeffrey Chekai, Tony Gardner, Kok-Hwa -Lie, Nathan Foad, Marianella Phillips, Jeffrey Chekai, Shailan Gohil, Tika Mu’Tamir and Jamie Tyler.

Deadline praising Luke Thompson (and the play overall) and his leading man chops in Love's Labour's Lost!

#Luke Thompson #Bridgerton #Bridgerton cast #Benedict Bridgerton