Category: Shakespeare

Posted in Film Shakespeare

DVD Review: NOW – in the Wings on a World Stage

“We’re not doing in fucking tights, with whatever those fucking old jock-strap things are called that they…

Posted in Film Kenneth Branagh Shakespeare

Film Review: A Midwinter’s Tale (1995)

“I’m clean, I’m conscientious and I travel with my own tits” Where else would you get to…

Posted in Shakespeare Theatre

Review: The Taming of the Shrew, Above the Arts

“Why, there be good women in the world” At the heart of Custom/Practice’s Verve festival – exploring…

Posted in Film Shakespeare

Film Review: Hamlet (1990)

“What means your lordship?” Having just seen a corking production of Hamlet at the RSC, I wasn’t…

Posted in Not-London RSC Shakespeare Theatre UK

Review: Hamlet, Royal Shakespeare Theatre

 “This bodes some strange eruption to our state” It shouldn’t be newsworthy in this day and age…

Posted in Shakespeare Theatre

Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Pleasance

“A proper woman, as one shall see in a summer’s day” It’s all in the name –…

Posted in August Wilson Christopher Hampton Cyndi Lauper Duncan Macmillan Florian Zeller Howard Goodall Jessica Swale Kenneth Branagh Lin-Manuel Miranda Mark Gatiss Martin McDonagh Olivier Awards Robert Icke Shakespeare Theatre Theatre awards

2016 Laurence Olivier Awards nominations

Best New Play  Farinelli and the King by Claire van Kampen – Duke of York’s Hangmen by…

Posted in Not-London Shakespeare Theatre UK

Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream – A Play For The Nation, Royal Shakespeare Theatre

“Nor doth this wood lack worlds of company” Surtitled A Play For The Nation, Erica Whyman’s production…

Posted in Digital Shakespeare

Shakespeare Solos – Part 2

  “Are you meditating on virginity?” The Guardian’s Shakespeare Solos series continues apace with its second suite…