Cheek by Jowl

...in "Out of Time," opposite Denzel Washington. Lester's extensive stage pedigree includes playing Rosalind in Declan Donnellan's 1991 Cheek by Jowl production of As You Like It; starring as Bobby in Sam Mendes' Donmar Warehouse production...

In this article: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, James Earl Jones, A Raisin in the Sun, Adrian Lester, Richard Blackwood, Royal Shakespeare Company, Tennessee Williams, and Alex Haley

...The Hothouse at the National in 2007, austerity-era worsted for the men and acid brights for the women. Nor is it about big budgets: Cheek by Jowl's productions (designed by Nick Ormerod) aren't lavish, but they're full of meaningful...

In this article: The Spanish Tragedy, Michael Boyd, Richard III, Speed-the-Plow, Thomas Kyd, and William Shakespeare

...performance around the wishes of the director and the leading actors. This was demonstrated at the NT over many years and then with the Cheek by Jowl company, which he joined for several productions in the 1990s. Charles Peter Needham...

In this article: Peter Hall, Tamburlaine, National Theatre, Hamlet, Touchstone, The Romans in Britain, and Albert Finney

Peter Needham, left, as Touchstone in Cheek by Jowl's 1991-94 production of As You Like It, with Richard Cant as Audrey. Photograph: John Haynes The Cheek by Jowl theatre company's two world tours of their celebrated all-male As You Like...

In this article: Nottingham, National Theatre, John Mortimer, Touchstone, DH Lawrence, and Harold Pinter

...before doing a BA in Theatre Design at the Wimbledon School of Art. In 1981 Ormerod founded Cheek by Jowl with Declan Donnellan. The company has performed across the world, working in over 300 cities in 40 countries spanning six...

In this article: Wimbledon School of Art, Trinity College, Cambridge, Troilus and Cressida, The Winter's Tale, Great Expectations, Declan Donnellan, William Shakespeare, and Salzburg Festival

...has performed across the world and gave the first performance of Shakespeare in The Swan (theatre): ''Twelfth Night '' in 1986. Cheek by Jowl is a theatre company formed in 1981 by Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod. An international...

In this article: William Shakespeare, Declan Donnellan, Measure for Measure, Troilus and Cressida, The Duchess of Malfi, Great Expectations, Peter Brook, and John Webster

...Hughes instinctively rebalances it towards the sexual passion and the incident suitable to a modern sensibility. As anyone who saw Cheek by Jowl's recent French-language version of Racine's Andromaque knows - and the company is not one to...

In this article: Anton Chekhov, Henrik Ibsen, Tom Stoppard, Noel Coward, Jean Racine, A Doll's House, Phedre, The Cherry Orchard, Ted Hughes, and William Shakespeare

...two figures engage in an erotic watery duet that leaves both them and a few audience members soaking wet. Donnellan, whose acclaimed Cheek by Jowl company has been seen many times at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, invests the proceedings...

In this article: Macbeth, Ivan the Terrible, Boris Godunov, Boris Godunov, Declan Donnellan, and Alexander Pushkin

...supertitles in English), Mr. Donnellan and the designer Nick Ormerod (best known as the leaders of the imaginative British company Cheek by Jowl) have retold Pushkin's story of late-16th-century imperial Russia in modern dress, with the...

In this article: Boris Godunov, Declan Donnellan, Boris Godunov, Alexander Pushkin, William Shakespeare, and Macbeth

...a dash of Cherie Blair, Richard Cant's transformation of Thersites into a Scouse drag duchess stole a fistful of scenes when the Cheek by Jowl company mounted Troilus and Cressida at the Barbican. In Shakespeare's darkest satire, Thersites...

In this article: The Edge of Love, Dylan Thomas, Couscous, John Maybury, Thersites, William Shakespeare, and Steve McQueen