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Tag Archives: Hamlet
Black Shakespeare: Paapa Essiedu from Hamlet to Edmund
On 13 August it was the last performance of the latest production of Hamlet at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford. Every production of this play is notable, but particularly this time because Hamlet was played by a man of … Continue reading
Posted in Shakespeare on Stage, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged Black Theatre Live, British Black and Asian Performance Daatabase, British Black and Asian Shakespeare, Gregory Doran, Hamlet, Jami Rogers, Janet Suzman, Jeffery Kissoon, King Lear, National Theatre, Paapa Essiedu, Royal Shakespeare Company, Sam Troughton, Simon Russell Beale, Sir Antony Sher, Vaneshran Arumugam
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Shakespeare 400 continues
Following the fabulously successful but exhausting weekend celebrating the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, and his 452nd birthday, I’ve had a few days rest from the blog, but it doesn’t mean I haven’t been busy researching and writing a book … Continue reading
Royal Shakespeare Company’s plans for 2016
All the large Shakespeare organisations are celebrating the four-hundredth anniversary of Shakespeare’s death in 2016 with events to show that Shakespeare is universal, appealing to people of all ages and backgrounds. As befits the best-funded Shakespeare company in the UK … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare on Stage, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged 2016, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Antony Sher, Cymbeline, David Tennant, Erica Whyman, Gregory Doran, Hamlet, John Wyver, King and Country, RSC, Simon Russell Beale, The Tempest, Vanessa Redgrave
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The divine Sarah Bernhardt’s Hamlet
On Radio 4 Francine Stock is currently investigating the concept of charisma. This week in Pinning down the Butterfly: the It Factor, she looked at an actress whose fame spread across Europe and North America, the divine Sarah Bernhardt. Bernhardt … Continue reading
“To be or not to be”: Benedict Cumberbatch’s Hamlet
So Benedict Cumberbatch, playing Hamlet in Lyndsey Turner’s production of the play at the Barbican Theatre in London, has bowed to pressure by moving “To be or not to be” from the beginning of the play to its usual place. … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare on Stage
Tagged Alex Jennings, Benedict Cumberbatch, Hamlet, Lyndsey Thomas, soliloquy, To be or not to be
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Alas, poor Yorick: the spell of Hamlet
On 26 July 1602 Shakespeare’s play Hamlet was registered with the Stationers’ Company in London. It’s an important date, but has done little to settle the burning question of when Shakespeare’s most famous play was first written and first performed. … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare on Stage
Tagged Andre Tchaikovski, David Tennant, Edmund Kean, Gregory Doran, Hamlet, quarto
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Cakes, ale and hearing the chimes at midnight
Last weekend we remembered, again, the birthday of William Shakespeare. In Stratford tradition is important, so the boys of Shakespeare’s school still head the procession as they have done for over a century. The celebration is also a birthday party, … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged cake, Hamlet, Henry IV part 2, Much Ado About Nothing, Panettone, Romeo and Juliet, Shipston Home Nursing, Twelfth Night, WRAP
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Cross-gender casting for Hamlet and Henry IV
Gender issues in the performance of Shakespeare’s plays are being discussed in the press again with Maxine Peake playing Hamlet in a production at the Manchester Royal Exchange. Here is the review from the Observer by Susannah Clapp, and that … Continue reading
Posted in Shakespeare on Stage
Tagged Donmar Warehouse, gender, Hamlet, Harriet Walter, Henry IV Part 1, Manchester Royal Exchange, Maxine Peake
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