“When We Dead Awaken”, 1976 “Crucible Theatre, Sheffield. Opening on Thursday, the play “When We Dead Awaken” stars Alan Rickman, much-praised for his portrayal of Nijinsky at the theatre, as the artist Rubek, with Kristin Milward as his wife. The production runs until May 8.” (‘Evening Telegraph’, 17 April 1976) “Ian Giles’s direction is careful to echo, not disturb, the first charged impression. Alan Rickman’s Rubeck oppresses with a sense of weary disdain, of arrogance backed by ruthless perception, and of strange potency.” (‘The Guardian’, 23 April 1976) Sheffield, January–May 1976: Alan Rickman: “What do I say about this time? A crucial time. Three big parts which have elicited from me some welcome heights and some fairly appalling depths. (*The parts were in The Carnation Gang by Stephen Poliakoff, Nijinsky by Rex Doyle, and Henrik Ibsen’s When We Dead Awaken.) There must be a basic something which is right because while keeping my mind as open as I can, things are confirmed or developed – never changed (from disillusionment or that creeping disease ‘it’s a job’).” “Madly, Deeply: The Alan Rickman diaries” #alanrickman #ar__1976 #ar__young #ar__diaries #ar__1970s
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