Tag: rehearsal

  • Sweeney Todd: Scenes from the Making of a Musical

    Opening with the first day of rehearsals of the London production of “Sweeney Todd”, this ninety-minute documentary focuses on the rehearsal process with the musical’s director, composer and actors.

  • High Fidelity: The Adventures of the Guarneri String Quartet

    Relationships, rehearsals, performances, hobbies, and family life of the members of the Guarneri String Quartet.

  • The Leading Man

    Successful playwright Felix Webb has a new play, ‘The Hit Man’, in rehearsal. Directed by his old friend Humphrey, it is already being hailed as a masterpiece; but Felix can’t enjoy his success. He has fallen passionately in love with Hilary, a beautiful, fiesty young actress, and is preparing to desert his perfect family, his…

  • Theatre 2

    Oriza Hirata is Japan’s leading playwright and director, who runs his own theatrical company, Seinendan. Theatre 2 (Observational Film Series #4) examines the dynamic relationship between theatre and the society through depicting Hirata’s activities. In order for his art and his not-so-commercial company to survive this highly capitalistic modern society, what kind of strategy does…

  • Drive My Car

    Yusuke Kafuku, a stage actor and director, still unable, after two years, to cope with the loss of his beloved wife, accepts to direct Uncle Vanya at a theater festival in Hiroshima. There he meets Misaki, an introverted young woman, appointed to drive his car. In between rides, secrets from the past and heartfelt confessions…