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Category Archives: Shakespeare on Stage
Acting companies and the ensemble
A couple of weeks ago Gregory Doran, the new Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, was “In conversation” with Michael Dobson, the head of the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon. The session was recorded on video and is now generously … Continue reading
Posted in Shakespeare on Stage, Shakespeare's World
Tagged Charles Dickens, David Tennant, First Folio, Frank Benson, Gregory Doran, Henry Irving, Julius Caesar, Saxe-Meiningen, Shakespeare Institute
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Touring performances in Shakespeare’s town
It’s refreshing to be made to rethink something you have always accepted as fact, and J R Mulryne’s The Guild and Guild Buildings of Shakespeare’s Stratford challenges some of the received wisdom about these ancient buildings. This is true throughout … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare on Stage, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged Guild Hall, Guild of the Holy Cross, J R Mulryne, King John, Margaret Shewring, performance, REED
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Announcing the future of the RSC: David Tennant, Hilary Mantel and costume
Wednesday morning was an important one for Shakespeare-lovers, with the new team at the RSC, Artistic Director Gregory Doran, Deputy Artistic Director Erica Whyman and Executive Director Catherine Mallyon setting out their plans. There’s a link to the main announcement here … Continue reading
Speaking of comfort: theatre, Shakespeare and the audience experience
When you go to the theatre, do you have your favourite seat? Many of us have a preference, to sit upstairs, or to be down near the stage, at any rate. Back in Shakespeare’s theatres you would have been able … Continue reading
Posted in Shakespeare on Stage, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged Lyn Gardner, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, SeatPlan, seats, sponsorship, theatre, Tim Sullivan, V&A
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Was 2012 Shakespeare’s year?
2012 was the year of the World Shakespeare Festival, the biggest celebration of Shakespeare ever, when this early-modern writer was to be proclaimed a global superstar, as if he wasn’t already one of the most-recognised faces, and the most-performed playwright, … Continue reading
Comic artists with a sense of Shakespeare’s poetry: Des Barrit and George R Weir
This week I finally caught up with the RSC’s joyful production of The Merry Wives of Windsor. It was the company’s grown-up Christmas extravaganza and if you have the chance, there are still a couple of performances which are guaranteed … Continue reading
Posted in Plays and Poems, Shakespeare on Stage, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged Benson window, clowns, Des Barrit, George R Weir, The Earth Awakes, The Merry Wives of Windsor
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Brian Cox’s Titus Andronicus: “the greatest stage performance I’ve ever given”
Earlier in the week an interview with Brian Cox (the actor not the scientist) was published in which he commented that the production of Titus Andronicus in the Swan Theatre in 1987 was “the most interesting thing I’ve ever done … Continue reading
Michael Attenborough and Shakespeare
Last week Stratford’s Shakespeare Club was lucky enough to be given a look into internationally-renowned director Michael Attenborough’s views of Shakespeare. Attenborough is currently Artistic Director of the Almeida Theatre in London, though he is resigning from that post after … Continue reading
Women in the theatre: what next after Julius Caesar?
Phyllida Lloyd’s all-female production of Julius Caesar has now opened to great reviews: here are two from the Guardian and the Observer. More information, including an image gallery, is available on the Donmar Warehouse’s website. The production has created quite … Continue reading
Adapting Shakespeare’s Henry VI: The Wars of the Roses
Until a few years ago the Henry VI plays were rarely performed, especially outside Stratford-upon-Avon, so the news that next year Shakespeare’s Globe is going to be touring the plays to venues in the UK is to be welcomed. I’ve … Continue reading