Philip Thorne's Page

Hello,

I’m assistant director on JUDGMENT DAY which is due to open at the Almeida Theatre in September.

We’re currently recruiting extras and actors for small non speaking parts.

It will hopefully be a lot of fun and it’s an opportunity to work at one of London’s most respected theatres with renowned director James Macdonald (Glengarry Glenross, West End/ Dido, National Theatre/ Blasted, Royal Court etc.)

In one scene we want to involve a brass band, so if you play a brass instrument we coul… Continue

Imploding Fictions Newsletter

Oslo 28th August 2008


Now You Don't – CANCELATION

This is not a newsletter filled with dates, plans and projects for a change... but a cancelation. We were about to embark on our tour of Now You See It, Now You Don't. Due to an unfortunate accident this has been cancelled. For the full story visit our blog under:

http://oystein.ulsberg.no/blogg

Apologies to our friends and colleagues in Amsterdam! We know that many of you had already booked ticke… Continue

Imploding Fictions’ Newsletter

22nd July 2008, London


It's been a while since our last newsletter, not because of any summery laziness but due to a crammed schedule of planning, rehearsing, writing and touring.

In this newsletter you can read more about our coming performances of Now You See It; Now You Don't in Amsterdam and Oslo, our revival of Norway.Today in London in November and the continued success of our production of Heiner Müller's Hamletmachine.


Now You See It; Now You Don't… Continue

Imploding Theatre Machine [sic]
HAMLET MACHINE (Heine Muller) - Imploding Fictions

cast: Hannah Boyde & Samuel Metcalfe
direction: Philip Thorne & Oystein Ulsberg Brager
seen: 23-6-2008, Frascati 1, Amsterdam
review by: Anne Maike Mertens

The beginning is amusing, two people in suits bound to each other by a tie. The students from the London Rose Bruford College take the audience with them in the two texts by Heiner Muller. First there is ‘man in the lift’, an almost androgynous… Continue