Tag: The Scoop
The Trojan War and Peace
The Scoop’s sunken amphitheatre is a natural fit for Phil Willmott’s ambitious adaptation of Aeschylus’s ‘Oresteia’ trilogy, the latest in Steam Industry Theatre’s annual series of free outdoor shows. The sequence kicks off with the child-friendly ‘The Trojan Horse’, which makes a song and dance of the siege of Troy … Continue Reading The Trojan War and Peace
Around the World in Eighty Days / The Mother
Steam Industry Free Theatre returns to open-air venue The Scoop with a double-bill themed ‘Dangerous Journeys’. Performing Brecht’s Marxist rallying-cry ‘The Mother’ in the shadow of the gleaming Ernst & Young building is satisfyingly cheeky. But family musical ‘Around the World in Eighty Days’ travels the distance between past and … Continue Reading Around the World in Eighty Days / The Mother