The Stage. Coriolanus Crucible Sheffield March 2020 Those battle scenes are staged with an almost cinematic intensity – sirens blare, spotlights swoop over the audience, and the immersive nature of Stones’ set means that, depending on where you’re sat, a soldier with a machine gun could be just inches away from you. There’s also some… Continue reading
Renny Krupinski
Zorro The Musical – Canal Street online
Gemma Gosden chats to Renny Krupinski & Benjamin Purkiss aka Zorro Zorro The Musical: “The show is about love. The show is about acceptance, the show is about choosing your own path, finding your own path. All tied in with some crazy swash-buckling fun and a tonne of sword fighting and fire.” That is how… Continue reading
The Provoked Wife
‘When words fail and Brute rough-handles his spouse with rapine hands and, lingeringly, drunkenly, revoltingly kisses her to test her physical reaction for revulsion, the effect is shocking.’ – Dominic Cavendish, Daily Telegraph Continue reading
Coriolanus Shakespeare’s Globe 2006
Best of all, the final scene involves the hardly insubstantial Jonathan Cake in a stage dive worthy of a punk rock star. British Theatre Guide And when Coriolanus meets his demise, he does so in a spectacular and unexpected way, resulting in gasps and shrieks from the stunned audience. London Theatre Guide Continue reading
ABC of emotions, power and energy
Oldham Coliseum Oldham Chronicle 17th September 2015 ABC of emotions, power and energy Reporter: Paul Genty Date online: 17 September 2015 THE ALPHABET GIRL, Oldham Coliseum Studio, to Saturday IT’S quite a culture shock, moving from Tuesday night’s mightily impressive but emotionally cold epic, “Dead Dog in a Suitcase”, to this one-woman, one-hour, all-emotion tour… Continue reading
True West
Read Renny’s Tricycle Theatre blog entry – August 2014 There’s no love lost between brothers Austin and Lee in Sam Shepard’s True West – and some pretty spectacular fight scenes to show for it! Today we welcome True West Fight Director Renny Krupinski to the Tricycle blog to tell us how he ended up choreographing… Continue reading
Who do you call?
Traverse,Edinburgh The Scotsman 26/11/10 Who will ensure that the swordplay in your production of The Three Musketeers is authentic? There’s only one man to call IT’S ONE thing the Traverse deciding to put on a non-festive family show at Christmas. And it’s one thing getting acclaimed playwright Chris Hannan to write it. It’s another thing,… Continue reading
Bare
Already with a Fringe First 2010 under their belts, BareBack Theatre brings a grim, but realistic drama to the stage about low-lives, illegal fighting and greed. The strong cast is flawless, several performers portraying a number of different characters, always with integrity. The gritty story unfolds with the utmost realism, never glossing over any subject… Continue reading
Bare
Darkchat Having spent most of the festival enjoying Press, 2 for 1 and half-price tickets it was quite a rarity for this reviewer to pay full-price for a show. “Bare”, however, more than re-paid this investment. The play started in the queue with promoter Arden tearing the tickets before you entered the arena (theatre). With… Continue reading
Bare
Suite 101 Bare is Renny Krupinski’s uncompromising, gritty drama set in the north of England, following the fighting career of Rick “Skinner” as he delves deeper and deeper into the dark world of bare-knuckle fighting, working for the comically evil fight promoter-cum-gangster, Arden. The first thing the audience notices is the energy with which the play… Continue reading
