Ian Macmillan Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 After a long Covid-related delay, San Francisco Ballet is at last able to premiere Cathy Marston's Mrs Robinson in a programme starting on 1 February. It's based on the 1960s film The Graduate that folk of my age will recall, with Dustin Hoffman as the newly-graduated Benjamin and Anne Bancroft as the predatory friend of his parents. There's some background here: https://www.sfballet.org/reconsidering-mrs-robinson/ And a very sultry trailer here: https://www.sfballet.org/productions/program-1/#mrsrobinson Perhaps Ms Rojo will bring it to London before too long! 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zxDaveM Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 terrific trailer - just wondering how they'll get that fountain onstage though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bridiem Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 I can't say that this is source material I'd be keen to revisit. I enjoyed the film many years ago but would see it with different eyes now (and even then I found all the characters distinctly unlikeable!). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 I really admire Cathy Marston's ability to draw in a character in just a few moves. I've never forgotten her Tale of Two Cities for Northern Ballet where Hiro Takahashi danced Dr Manette. He'd always been a wonderful dancer but his acting abilities were not his strongest suit. Well, I wasn't watching Hiro in the prison cell, I was watching Dr Manette. A glorious memory. I'd love to see this! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Macmillan Posted January 15, 2022 Author Share Posted January 15, 2022 Fond memories of the First Night of Tale of Two Cities in Leeds many years ago now, when an interview during the Interval resulted in my wife and I featuring in The Times Style supplement some weeks later! A fearsome phalanx of tricoteuses in Paris, and clerks dancing with their desks in London are in my mind's eye just now. (Stand-up type desks - on wheels, I imagine, should anyone wonder.) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henry Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 Ms Rojo as Mrs Robinson and Mr Isaac Hernandez as Benjamin? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FionaM Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 10 hours ago, Henry said: Ms Rojo as Mrs Robinson and Mr Isaac Hernandez as Benjamin? well that would be a better age difference than the dancers in the trailer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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