Showing posts with label Sideways. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sideways. Show all posts

Thursday, 2 June 2016

Review: Sideways at the St James Theatre



Sideways 
St James Theatre
Reviewed on Tuesday 31st May 2016
★★★

Adapted from his 2004 novel, Rex Pickett's stage adaptation of Sideways has some funny moments but is yet to be fine-tuned. The piece follows two middle-aged men, Miles and Jack, as they head to Santa Barbara for a week of wine-tasting before Jack's wedding. Things don't run smoothly, with both men heading towards a whopper of a midlife crisis.

Wednesday, 10 February 2016

Sideways by Rex Pickett to receive UK premiere at the St James Theatre

A brand new production of Rex Pickett’s novel and play Sideways will open at the St James Theatre, marking its UK premiere.

Directed by David Grindley, Sideways will open on 31st May (previews from 26th May) and run until 9th July 2016 with full casting snd creatives to be announced.

Pickett says: "From the moment my play Sideways was successfully staged in the U.S. it's been my express dream to bring it to London. That is not hyperbole. I've been a lifelong, die-hard fan of U.K. films, literature, thespians, and, of course, London's rich history of theatre and her undying love of language and for the spoken word. The Brit influence on my work is incalculable, my debt enormous. Bringing Sideways to London is that dream realized in Technicolor, that debt remunerated in the only way I'm capable of expressing my immeasurable gratitude."