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...crowd at photographer Helmut Newton's show isn't what one usually finds at an exhibition of fashion photography. Sure, there are some beautiful people - fashion editors, models and photographers - but there are also a suspiciously large number of men in trenchcoats. The site of the show, London's Barbican Centre, is near the financial district, but it's hard to imagine that these middle-aged, white-collar workers just stumbled upon the third-floor exhibition, called "Work," during a lunchtime stroll. No, the truth is that the work for which Newton is best-known - photographs of tall, domineering...
While the National struggles to satisfy its critics and find new audiences, British theater?s other flagship is planning some modernizations of its own. The 41-year-old Royal Shakespeare Company, currently in dual residency at Stratford-Upon-Avon and London?s Barbican Centre, has announced an ambitious agenda of relocation and innovation for the coming year...
...will give up its ensemble residency at the Barbican, instead moving in and out of various London theaters for specific plays. Productions will no longer have to run in repertoire for the standard 18 months, a change intended to accommodate short stand-alone runs for star players with film commitments. Among the takers are Ralph Fiennes and Kenneth Branagh, former RSC players who have pledged to return. The company is spending more than $140 million to redevelop its Stratford base, including a new academy for young classical actors. And the RSC will send more of its touring companies abroad...
...Despite much derision (the Sunday Times called the plans "bizarre ... the ending of a great era"), the scheme has found favor with actors who, among other things, disliked the dingy backstage conditions at the Barbican. Toby Stephens, a much-praised RSC Coriolanus in 1994, calls it a "timely cutting away of dead wood for a company that was overstretched." RSC managing director Chris Foy speaks enthusiastically of a break from his company?s "well-engineered but constricting operating model, a move away from the railway timetable concept." But whether the RSC finds a new direction, or has its identity chipped...
...Mounting all eight works in their entirety is a mighty task and one the company has never before attempted. This time, 79 actors play 264 roles in a saga that uses three theaters - the Barbican, the Pit and the Young Vic - 400 costumes, five liters of stage blood and five severed heads. Those who buy tickets to the whole thing get to watch almost 24 hours of theater...