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Tag Archives: As You Like it
Music and dancing for Queen Elizabeth
We’re just reaching the end of the merry month of May, and about to embark on a weekend of celebrations for the Platinum Anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II’s accession to the throne. Events, many of them outdoors, will be taking … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare on Stage, Shakespeare's World
Tagged As You Like it, dance, Darren Royston, jig, Lucie Skeaping, music, Orchesographie, Platinum Jubilee, Queen Elizabeth 1, Queen Elizabeth II, The Early Music show, The Winter's Tale, Twelfth Night
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Happy Birthday William Shakespeare 23 April 2021
“I would I had some flowers of the spring” Today, 23 April, is William Shakespeare’s Birthday. I’ve already been down to Holy Trinity Church where he was baptised and buried to leave a little posy of spring flowers from my … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged As You Like it, Holy Trinity Church, Lena Orlin, Shakespeare Birthday Celebrations, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, The Winter's Tale
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Rosalinds in Arden
Michelle Terry is blasting her way through Shakespeare’s forthright heroines. Having spent the winter playing Rosaline in Love’s Labour’s Lost and Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, both for the RSC in Stratford, she is now taking on Shakespeare’s most … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare on Stage
Tagged As You Like it, Fiona Shaw, Juliet Stevenson, Michelle Terry, Niamh Cusack, Sinead Cusack
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Christmas traditions: the evergreen holly
Over Christmas we fill our houses with fresh flowers and plants: I’ve been able to enjoy lilies and hyacinths in full bloom, specially appreciating them at this cold, dark time of year. Spare a thought then for Shakespeare and his … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare's World
Tagged Arts and Crafts movement, As You Like it, evergreen, flowers, Flowers of Shakespeare, holly, Richard Mabey, Walter Crane
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Old December’s bareness everywhere
It’s December and winter is definitely on the way. Heavy snow has already been causing chaos in the USA, and in the UK we are bracing ourselves for violent storms. In Stratford the ways are certainly foul with mud and … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare's World
Tagged As You Like it, December, King John, snow, weather, winter
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Cheek by Jowl and Shakespeare’s Globe in the news
Two theatre companies which have made their mark by performing Shakespeare have recently made announcements about future programming and projects. First, Cheek by Jowl. Since they were formed in 1981 by Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod the company has done … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Shakespeare on Stage
Tagged archives, As You Like it, Cheek by Jowl, Dominic Dromgoole, King John, Magna Carta, Measure for Measure, National Video Archive of Stage Performance, Russia, Shakespeare's Globe, Victoria and Albert Museum
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Remembering Richard Pasco, Shakespearian actor
On Wednesday 12 November Richard Pasco became the third eminent Shakespeare actor with close associations to Stratford-upon-Avon to die in 2014. Sadly there has been little immediate media interest, unlike that which met the death of Donald Sinden, and, … Continue reading
Mary Anderson, an American actress abroad
On the 29th August 1885 a special performance took place at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre. The famous Mary Anderson and her Company staged As You Like It as a Benefit for the Shakespeare Memorial Fund. Although her name is now … Continue reading
Posted in Shakespeare on Stage, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged 1916, American, As You Like it, Johnston Forbes-Robertson, Macbeth, Mary Anderson, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, terracotta, The Winter's Tale, USA
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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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“The sweet of the year”: spring in Shakespeare’s Stratford
Shakespeare is famous for his knowledge of plants of all kinds, but especially flowers, and he particularly loved springtime. It’s one of the reasons why spring flowers are brought to lay on his grave in Holy Trinity Church on his birthday on … Continue reading
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Tagged April, As You Like it, gardens, National Gardening Week, Royal Horticultural Society, Shakespeare's Birthday, spring, Stratford in Bloom, The Winter's Tale
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