Tag Archives: Tom Stoppard

Shakespeare in Love – the play

Posted on July 23, 2014 by Sylvia Morris

This evening, 23 July, is the official opening of the new London West End play Shakespeare in Love, Lee Hall’s new version of the much-loved 1998 film of the same name. Rumours have been circulating about this play ever since … Continue reading →

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Parodying Hamlet

Posted on February 22, 2014 by Sylvia Morris

The best-known play based on Shakespeare’s play Hamlet is Tom Stoppard’s brilliant 1966 play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. It follows the plot of Hamlet from the  point of view of the pair of hapless and confused courtiers, owing much … Continue reading →

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Much Ado about David Tennant

Posted on August 24, 2011 by Sylvia Morris

I don’t think I’ve ever seen an actor having more fun onstage than I did on Monday night when I went to Much Ado About Nothing at Wyndham’s Theatre London. From his first entrance in a ridiculous golf buggy right … Continue reading →

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