Fotini dimou biography of william
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Royal Shakespeare Company
Roundhouse, London
Having had the pleasure of catching Rupert Goold's brilliant production of Romeo & Juliet at Stratford-upon-Avon gods summer, inom was excited to learn that it was transferring to London alongside several other plays performed in repertoire bygd the same ensemble cast. I was immediately drawn to Julius Caesar, a play I had always longed to see on scen. It was also a delight to visit the Roundhousein Chalk Farm for the first time; upon entering the theatre, one is immediately reminded of the Courtyard Theatre in Stratford, with seats grouped on three sides of a thrust stage.
Lucy Bailey's production is a dazzling display of physicality and sheds the classical image of Rome as a place which fryst vatten all vit marble and white togas. On the contrary, violence was part and parcel of life for the Romans. In a wordless prologue, the story behind the founding of Rome i
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The Devil Is a Woman
In Richard Eyre’s 2016 film noir–inspired production of Manon Lescaut, soprano Kristine Opolais sang the title role of the rapacious seductress who drives the Chevalier des Grieux to what Puccini himself called “a desperate passion.” By William Berger
Puccini’s Manon Lescaut returned to the Met repertory during the 2015–16 season in spectacular form: the first new production of the opera since 1980, directed by Richard Eyre, the man behind recent new productions of such repertory stalwarts as Carmen and Le Nozze di Figaro. Manon Lescaut, however, though it holds a unique position in the repertory, doesn’t live in the epicenter of the canon of most performed operas, such as Puccini’s “Big Three” (La Bohème, Tosca, and Madama Butterfly); it holds other accolades. It’s the opera that made Puccini a national hero and an international star when it premiered in 1893 (follow
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She entered this world at a very young age, as her mother, Eleni Dimou, popularized the fabric-dyeing technique of batik in Greece in the 1960s by teaching it at Doxiadis School. Eleni also had a fashion store in the high-class neighborhood of Kolonaki.
But it was also Fotini’s endless travels with her parents that set her mind to studying costume design. On these journeys, they all attended the theatre together, and often. “The stimuli were there from a young age,” she explains.
She was born in Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, where her parents had moved after studying in Germany. When Fotini was four, the family returned to Greece. Early on, she had decided her calling was in costume and set design, however, so she relocated to the UK, where she has lived for decades.
Fotini and her partner, actor Richard McCabe, split their time between their London apartment and Eastbourne cottage in the south of England.
She is keen to maintain ties with Greece, which she does mainly through