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Front Row: Circle of Fifths, reviews of Good Luck to You, Leo Grande and The Lazarus Project

16/06/2022

Circle of Fifths, reviews of Good Luck to You, Leo Grande and The Lazarus Project

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Circle of Fifths, reviews of Good Luck to You, Leo Grande and The Lazarus Project

Gavin Porter on National Theatre Wales's live documentary performance Circle of Fifths.

Circle of Fifths at National Theatre Wales, a live documentary on life and death. Reviews of Good Luck to You, Leo Grande starring Emma Thompson and TV show The Lazarus Project.

National Theatre Wales is about to open a new production described as a live documentary performance, Circle of Fifths.  With cast and stories drawn from the local community, and taking place inside and out, it combines film, performance, storytelling, live music and dance, to tell stories of life, death and grief.  The director Gavin Porter joins Front Row to explain how it will work.

Because of the bad behaviour of human the world keeps coming to an end. Fortunately there is an organisation of people who can reset time to before disaster, take action and so save the planet. That's the premise of a new eight part action television series starring Paapa Essiedu. Karen Krizanovich and Kerry Shale review The Lazarus Project. They have also been watching the film Good Luck to You, Leo Grande in which Emma Thompson plays a retired R.E. teacher who has never had an orgasm. So, she hires sex worker Leo Grande, played by Daryl McCormack, to teach her about the pleasures of sex. In the process both learn a good deal about  themselves.

Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe
Producer: Sarah Johnson
       
Photo credit: Mei Lewis, Mission Photographic

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