Her opening production is George Farquhar's The Recruiting Officer.
"The Donmar has never done a Restoration comedy in its entire history,"
says Rourke. "It's a very funny, humane, very sexy play with a very
pragmatic and dark heart." She thinks it'll be interesting to see how
the asides and bawdry of the piece work in the theatre's intimate space.
Rourke's
creative choices are arguably influenced as much by her age as her
gender. She studied The Physicists at school, and both Holman's play and
The Recruiting Officer were pieces she saw when her theatrical tastes
were first forming. The Recruiting Officer introduces a new generation
of stars to the Donmar, which previously lured Jude Law and Rachel Weisz
back to the boards. The new influx are Rourke's peers: Mark Gatiss,
Mackenzie Crook, Rachael Stirling, Nancy Carroll and Tobias Menzies. In
rehearsals she had to stop herself being "a mad fan" of Gatiss, as a
devotee of BBC1's Sherlock, which he co-created and co-starred in as
Mycroft Holmes: "So I had to squeak a bit, then park that and direct
him."
Actually, I can't imagine Rourke being
star-struck. She's directed at our finest theatres, including the Royal
Court and the National, where she helmed the majestic tenement drama Men
Should Weep. The same year she faced down the Bush's arts council cut, she
chose as her first, big, commercial venture the bold West End
production of Much Ado About Nothing starring David Tennant and
Catherine Tate.
Koko artikkeli täällä
Kursivoinnit on omia. Ja liputhan Recruiting Officeriin on 8.3. :-)
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