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Author Archives: Sylvia Morris
Shakespeare across the gender boundaries
There’s lots going on just now with all-female and cross-gender productions of Shakespeare, so this post is a quick round-up. Following their success with an all-female Julius Caesar directed by Phyllida Lloyd, the Donmar Warehouse recently announced they will be … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare on Stage
Tagged all-female, gender, Hamlet, Henry IV, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet
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Howard Blake’s music for Shakespeare in performance
This Friday, 6 June, Stratford-upon-Avon’s Orchestra of the Swan’s celebration of the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth reaches its climax with a concert of music inspired by A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Three of the four concerts in the series have … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare on Stage
Tagged A Midsummer Night's Dream, Adrian Noble, As You Like it, Henry V, Howard Blake, Twelfth Night
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King Lear and poverty
I’m finally getting to see Simon Russell Beale playing King Lear at the National Theatre this week. I’m not sure how much I’m going to agree with some of the interpretation, but with Beale you know, however difficult the play … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Plays and Poems, Shakespeare's World
Tagged foodbanks, King Lear, National Theatre, poeverty, Simon Russell Beale, Timon of Athens, Trussell Trust
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Motley’s the only wear: Shakespeare and design
The name Motley will be familiar to anyone interested in twentieth-century theatre design, or in the history of Shakespeare on stage. This all-female group designed for straight plays, Broadway musicals, ballets, operas and even films over a period of forty … Continue reading
Posted in Shakespeare on Stage
Tagged Elizabeth Montgomery, Glen Byam Shaw, Margaret Harris, Michael Mullin, Motley, Shakespeare Centre Library and Archive, Sophia Harris, University of Bristol Theatre Collection, University of Illinois, Victoria and Albert Museum
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Stratford’s Elizabethan wall-paintings
In 1927, during renovation work in a building in Stratford-upon-Avon, an important discovery was made. The White Swan Hotel was being modernised by the hotel group Trust Houses Limited, and workmen found evidence of surviving wall-paintings concealed behind panelling. Work … Continue reading
Cycling in Shakespeare country
It’s the bank holiday weekend, what used to be festival of Whitsun, traditionally marked by fairs and pageants, what Shakespeare calls “Whitsun pastorals”. The first holiday of summer, all the celebrations are going to be out of doors. Morris dancing … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged cycling, Whitsun
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Celebrating Shakespeare and Purcell with the Orchestra of the Swan
Stratford-upon-Avon’s own chamber orchestra, the Orchestra of the Swan, is currently celebrating Shakespeare’s 450th anniversary by performing four concerts of music inspired by his work. The first concert, last Friday, included the lovely orchestral suite written by Henry Purcell for … Continue reading
Congratulations to David Bradley!
It’s truly wonderful news that actor David Bradley has won a BAFTA after a forty-year career that has spanned theatre, TV and film. Not surprisingly, the award he won is Best Supporting Actor in the hit TV drama Broadchurch. David … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare on Stage, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged BAFTA, David Bradley, National Theatre, Second Thoughts, Shakespeare Club, Shakespeare Hospice
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Thomas Nast’s The Immortal Light of Genius
Browsing Julia Thomas’s book Shakespeare’s Shrine recently, I came across a reference to a painting created at the height of Shakespeare worship. By Thomas Nast, it was entitled “The Immortal Light of Genius”, commissioned by the great actor Henry Irving … Continue reading
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Tagged Folger Shakespeare Library, Thomas Nast
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Henry IV Part 1: relaying the live event
Earlier this week I attended the performance of Henry IV Part 1 performed at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, that was being simultaneously broadcast to cinemas around the UK, and is to be shown in schools, around the world and eventually … Continue reading