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Tag Archives: The Winter’s Tale
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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Living statues and literary pageants: Shakespeare’s Birthday 2018
This weekend Shakespeare’s 454th birthday will be celebrated in the town of his birth, as it has been for nearly two centuries. While there are elements of the Birthday that have become traditional, almost every year the organisers add new … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy, Stratford-upon-Avon
Tagged Literary Carnival Pageant, Metamorphoses, National Living Statue Championship, Ovid, Pygmalion, Shakespeare Birthday Celebrations, The Winter's Tale, Venus and Adonis
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Directing Shakespeare
With the sudden death of Michael Bogdanov this week theatre directors and their importance in the staging of Shakespeare’s plays have been on my mind in the build up to Shakespeare’s birthday. Shakespeare was the first director of his own … Continue reading
Posted in Plays and Poems, Shakespeare on Stage
Tagged Cheek by Jowl, Declan Donnellan, Dominic Dromgoole, Emma Rice, English Shakespeare Company, Michael Bogdanov, Michael Pennington, Shakespeare's Globe, The Winter's Tale
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The Winter’s Tale live streaming: a play for our times
The Winter’s Tale, with its theme of the pain of loss followed by the joy of resurrection, is a play that is particularly appropriate around Easter and Shakespeare’s Birthday, while the portrayal of mental illness makes it very much a … Continue reading
Posted in Shakespeare on Stage
Tagged #TheWintersTaleLive, Antony Sher, Barbican Theatre, Cheek by Jowl, Declan Donnellan, Easter, Pragnell Shakespeare Award, Shakespeare's Birthday Celebrations, The Winter's Tale
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Tim Pigott-Smith and Shakespeare
Since the announcement of Tim Pigott-Smith’s death on Friday 7 April 2017 tributes have flooded in for this much-loved and admired actor. Many have also commented that in the last few years he was reaching his peak. His kindness and … Continue reading
Shakespeare 400 continues
Following the fabulously successful but exhausting weekend celebrating the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, and his 452nd birthday, I’ve had a few days rest from the blog, but it doesn’t mean I haven’t been busy researching and writing a book … Continue reading
Retelling the stories of the world’s favourite playwright: the Hogarth Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s plays have been adapted, rewritten, altered, reimagined for centuries, beginning just forty years or so after he died. These revisions keep Shakespeare fresh, giving the stories a modern flavour. Shakespeare himself borrowed stories from many other sources. As time … Continue reading
Wordsworth and Shakespeare
7 April 2015 was the 345th birthday of William Wordsworth, the Romantic poet most closely associated with nature, and one of England’s greatest writers. Like Shakespeare, houses associated with Wordsworth have been turned into literary shrines, though Shakespeare’s birthplace was … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy
Tagged daffodils, Dove Cottage, Grasmere, Lake District, spring, The Winter's Tale, Virginia Woolf, William Wordsworth
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Shakespeare and Easter
Over the Easter weekend we’ve probably all eaten too many Easter eggs and chocolate bunnies. As the first festival of spring, it’s also traditionally our first opportunity for getting outdoors after the cold, dark days of winter, when we enjoy the return … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy
Tagged Ariel, Easter, forgiveness, Prospero, resurrection, spring, The Tempest, The Winter's Tale
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