Introduction: Simon Stone and Company

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Title Introduction: Simon Stone and Company
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Abstract/Description Less than 2 years after a bruising rights battle over Death of a Salesman, a Simon Stone production again made headlines.The Philadelphia Story, announced as a 2014 co-production between Sydney’s Belvoir and Melbourne’s Malthouse Theatre, had to be withdrawn after the musical rights could not be secured. It was replaced in both seasons by a new Stone-directed production: a version of The Government Inspector, billed as by Simon Stone after Nikolai Gogol.As Jason Blake deadpanned in the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper, ‘having died in 1852, Gogol presents no obstacles to Stone’s penmanship’. The show opened with a company of actors receiving news their production had been cancelled, following which their off-stage director (named Simon Stone) quit the project.
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Publisher Taylor & Francis Online, Contemporary Theatre Review
Volume 34, 2024
Issue 1
Page 1-9
Date Issued 22 July 2024
Language English
Citation Chris Hay, Emma Cole, Introduction: Simon Stone and Company, Taylor & Francis Online, Contemporary Theatre Review, 34, 2024, 1, 22 July 2024, 1-9
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Resource Identifier 79071