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Category Archives: Shakespeare on Stage
Celebrating Ovid 2000 years on
2017 marks the 2000th anniversary of the death of the Roman writer Ovid, whose Metamorphoses has continued to be one of the most influential of literary works. As Shakespeare’s favourite writer, the RSC, and its current Artistic Director Gregory Doran … Continue reading
Donald Trump and Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s fascination with politics can be seen in many of his plays, not only those directly based on British history. The Roman plays too examine the workings of power, looking at how countries have been governed and how those who … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare on Stage
Tagged Bad Quarto, covfefe, Donald Trump, Hamlet, New York, Pericles, twitter
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Bram and the Guv’nor: Henry Irving and his manager onstage together
Through his novel Dracula and the numerous adaptations of it, writer Bram Stoker is probably now better known than the man who was his “Guv’nor”, the great late-Victorian actor Henry Irving. The two men had a working relationship that lasted almost … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare on Stage
Tagged Bram and the Guv'nor, Bram Stoker, Bram Stoker Collection, Ellen Terry, Henry Irving, Irving Society, Jefny Ashcroft, Lyceum Theatre, Michael Kilgarriff, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
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Celebrating Shakespearean stage actors
On 27 April 2017 Dame Judi Dench unveiled a blue plaque on 16 Cowley Street in Westminster where Sir John Gielgud had lived from 1945 to 1976. It has taken a long time to appear since Gielgud died in 2000 … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare on Stage
Tagged Dame Judi Dench, Eileen Atkins, Fiona Shaw, Julian Curry, Nicholas Hytner, Shakespeare on Stage, Simon Russell Beale, Sir John Gielgud
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Directing Shakespeare
With the sudden death of Michael Bogdanov this week theatre directors and their importance in the staging of Shakespeare’s plays have been on my mind in the build up to Shakespeare’s birthday. Shakespeare was the first director of his own … Continue reading
Posted in Plays and Poems, Shakespeare on Stage
Tagged Cheek by Jowl, Declan Donnellan, Dominic Dromgoole, Emma Rice, English Shakespeare Company, Michael Bogdanov, Michael Pennington, Shakespeare's Globe, The Winter's Tale
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The Winter’s Tale live streaming: a play for our times
The Winter’s Tale, with its theme of the pain of loss followed by the joy of resurrection, is a play that is particularly appropriate around Easter and Shakespeare’s Birthday, while the portrayal of mental illness makes it very much a … Continue reading
Posted in Shakespeare on Stage
Tagged #TheWintersTaleLive, Antony Sher, Barbican Theatre, Cheek by Jowl, Declan Donnellan, Easter, Pragnell Shakespeare Award, Shakespeare's Birthday Celebrations, The Winter's Tale
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Tim Pigott-Smith and Shakespeare
Since the announcement of Tim Pigott-Smith’s death on Friday 7 April 2017 tributes have flooded in for this much-loved and admired actor. Many have also commented that in the last few years he was reaching his peak. His kindness and … Continue reading
Shakespeare in Padua
Just recently we’ve been experiencing cold, grey, depressing weather in the UK and we must all be thinking longingly of long, warm days spent somewhere exotic. It’s just the time, of course, for planning a summer holiday and for the … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare on Stage
Tagged Janet Suzman, John Nettles, Julian Curry, Lucy Bailey, Mary Chater, Othello, Padua, Shakespeare in Italy, Summer School, The Merchant of Venice, Titus Andronicus
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The Tempest in production
On Wednesday 11 January the Royal Shakespeare Company’s The Tempest is to be live streamed to cinemas around the UK. The play always brings with it a number of challenges, with its magical elements and the difficulty of putting a … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare on Stage, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged all-female, Donmar, Gregory Doran, Harriet Walter, John Gielgud, Mark Quartley, Michael Redgrave, Orlando Gough, Philip Voss, Royal Shakespeare Company, Simon Russell Beale, The Tempest
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“The point envenom’d too” onstage fighting or the real thing?
On 13 December 2016, the members of Stratford-upon-Avon’s Shakespeare Club will be able to get an inside view on the subject of staging battles and fights in productions of Shakespeare’s plays, from a man who really knows his subject. Alan … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare on Stage, Shakespeare's World
Tagged Alan Smith, armoury, battle, fighting, Hamlet, rapier, Romeo and Juliet, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon Shakespeare Club, swordplay, Wallace Collection
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