The Pelicot Trial<\/p>\n
Swiss director Milo Rau\u2019s ripped-from-the-headlines approach to theatre has included shows about wars in Iraq and Congo and the exploitation of migrant workers. His four-hour documentary play (created with Servane D\u00e8cle) about the trial of the men who drugged and raped Gis\u00e8le Pelicot has been performed around the world and will be staged by the Young Vic at London\u2019s County Hall on 30 November. The production swiftly sold out but will be livestreamed in full<\/a>. The cast includes Adjoa Andoh, Rosie Jones and Olivia Williams. \u201cIt was the act of witnessing that really got me,\u201d said Young Vic boss Nadia Fall<\/a> of the show. \u201cIt isn\u2019t scenes and costumes in a set like a traditional piece of theatre. It is the facts. It just floors you.\u201d<\/p>\n It\u2019s already one of Europe\u2019s coolest theatre companies, an avant garde hit factory<\/a> that stormed the West End with The Years<\/a> and Oedipus. Now, Internationaal Theater Amsterdam<\/a> has launched its own record label to release the \u201cmost requested\u201d music from its recent productions. The first compilation includes tracks by Thijs van Vuure from an adaptation of James Baldwin\u2019s novel Giovanni\u2019s Room. Available on Spotify<\/a>.<\/p>\n A night in the museum \u2026 DuEls. Photograph: Antero HeinDuEls<\/p>\n The moving mosaic of schoolboys he painstakingly choreographed for the viral Storm video<\/a> has brought Damien Jalet on to the smartphones of a huge new audience. On Sadler\u2019s Wells Digital Stage<\/a>, you can now see the great innovator twisting scenes of ecstasy and agony with performers among the statues of Oslo\u2019s Vigeland Museum, in the hour-long film DuEls (made with Erna \u00d3marsd\u00f3ttir). Highlights include a tangled trio familiar from horror hit Suspiria<\/a>. Endlessly intriguing, not least in how the movement changes your appreciation of figures frozen in time: a choreographer illuminating sculptors.<\/p>\n Isis Hainsworth in Arcadia at the Old Vic. Photograph: Manuel HarlanArcadia<\/p>\n When director Carrie Cracknell was cast in a student production of Tom Stoppard\u2019s The Real Thing, she considered herself \u201cno match for his dazzling dialogue, speed of thought or emotional depths<\/a>\u201d. But Cracknell mastered all of that, and much more, in her Old Vic revival of the chewy Arcadia, which traverses two different centuries to explore matters of the universe and the heart, with a first-rate cast including the luminous, Olivier-nominated Isis Hainsworth. If only all plays left you with quite so much to think about. On NT at Home<\/a> from 26 November.<\/p>\n In 2017, the performance artist Selina Thompson<\/a> arrived at the Edinburgh fringe with a mallet, protective goggles and blocks of salt rock that she duly hammered in a one-woman show whose audience members each took home a piece. Thompson left Edinburgh that year with several awards for her extraordinary account of the transatlantic slave triangle and how she retraced its route, from the UK to Ghana to Jamaica. The performance inspired this film on BBC iPlayer<\/a>, which preserves its sense of ritual, commemoration and intimacy \u2013 and adds Thompson\u2019s reflections on its creation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pelicot Trial Swiss director Milo Rau\u2019s ripped-from-the-headlines approach to theatre has included shows about wars in Iraq…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,85,46],"class_list":["post-663387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}