Culture: Rep's Season of Surprises ; Terry Grimley Previews Birmingham Rep's Plans for 2005-6

Birmingham Post › July 19, 2005

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Birmingham Rep-watchers alarmed by the theatre's apparent populist drift in recent months can look forward to Shakespeare, Brecht and Chekhov in the coming nine months.

True, the Shakespeare is Romeo and Juliet with a big education package attached, but Bill Bryden is directing, a heady pace is promised and so are cuts for some of Shakespeare's duller passages. The Brecht is The Life of Galileo in a new version by David Edgar, with the Rep's artistic director Jonathan Church directing and Timothy West in the title role.

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Culture: Rep's Season of Surprises ; Terry Grimley Previews Birmingham Rep's Plans for 2005-6

'I've long had a thought that Brecht would connect with this space, and David and I had been talking for some time about what to do,' Church told me when we m...

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