Rebecca Frecknall
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Rebecca Frecknall is an associate director at the Almeida. Her production of Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke, for which she was nominated for the 2019 Olivier Award for Best Director, opened at the Almeida, and in November 2018 transferred to the West End. In 2019 it won the Olivier Award for Best Revival.
Praise for Summer and Smoke:
★★★★★ Rebecca Frecknall's shiveringly beautiful production
The Sunday Times
★★★★★ Rebecca Frecknall's whole production seems to tremble like a sustained, held high note: fragile, uncertain, almost unbearably tense
The Independent
★★★★★ It's superb stuff: sensual, shimmering and sad
The Financial Times
★★★★★ There is magic in the sultry magnolia-scented air at the Almeida with this one
The Times
★★★★★ So captivating in its every second
The Stage
★★★★ Restores Williams's wrongly neglected play to a central place in the canon
The Guardian
Nominated for 2019 What's On Stage Award for Best Play Revival