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Category Archives: Shakespeare on Stage
Women taking power in Shakespeare’s plays
2016 seems to have been characterised by women staging a takeover of traditional male roles, at least as far as Shakespeare is concerned. While planning this post I was hoping to be able to link this trend to the election of … Continue reading
Discord and dismay
It’s been a bad-tempered sort of week for those who take an interest in Shakespeare. On Sunday 23rd October actor and former Artistic Director of Shakespeare’s Globe Mark Rylance launched into an attack on business sponsorship of the theatre in … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare on Stage, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged Adriano Shaplin, Emma Rice, Mark Rylance, Shakespeare's Globe
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Howard Davies at the Royal Shakespeare Company
On 25 October 2016 theatre director Howard Davies died at the age of 71. He had a full and successful career working in theatres around the country, but for me he is associated with the Royal Shakespeare Company during … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare on Stage, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged Bertolt Brecht, Edward Bond, Henry VIII, Howard Davies, Juliet Stevenson, Royal Shakespeare Company, The Other Place, The Warehouse, Troilus and Cressida
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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 memories from the Bush
A couple of weeks ago I visited my brother-in-law James (Jim) Morris, who has lived on a beautiful plot of forest in New South Wales, Australia, near the small town Eden, for over thirty years. He left Stratford-upon-Avon, where he had been … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare on Stage
Tagged Australia, James Morris, Peggy Ashcroft, Richard III, Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, The Merchant of Venice
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Shakespeare, theatre, and the Great War
Over the past few weeks we have been remembering the battle of the Somme that began on 1 July 1916 and continued for five long and bloody months. On the first day alone 19,240 men lost their lives. Even before … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare on Stage
Tagged 1916, Frank Benson, J C Trewin, Jubilees, Julius Caesar, Lena Ashwell, Lilian Baylis, Old Vic, Tercentenary, World War 1
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Theatre Before Shakespeare
A few weeks ago a new website launched, the public face of a project run by academics Andy Kesson and Lucy Munro with the aim of “rethinking the start of the public theatre in Britain”, that is “the playhouses that … Continue reading
Memories of Guy Woolfenden
I’ve just heard the sad news that the great Guy Woolfenden died on 15 April. For anyone who attended the Royal Shakespeare Company’s productions from the 1960s to the 1990s Guy’s music was very often the soundtrack to the play. … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare on Stage
Tagged Ariel Music, composer, English Serenata, Guy Woolfenden, Ian Charleson, music, Songs of Ariel
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2016 Shakespeare up north
The website Shakespeare 400 is the product of a London-based consortium based at King’s College, so it’s no surprise that the events listed there are based in the capital. There are so many things listed there that it would be … Continue reading
Shakespeare’s “Play for the nation”
I’ve recently been to the RSC’s new A Midsummer Night’s Dream, subtitled A Play for the Nation. After its initial performances, it’s going on tour to 11 towns and cities around the country. In each place the 18-strong professional cast … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare on Stage, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Play for the Nation, amateur, Barry Kyle, Erica Whyman, Frank Benson, Leah Hanman, The Dillen
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