Category: Shakespeare’s Globe

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Review: Nell Gwynn, Shakespeare’s Globe

“The lady’s a wit” As a director, Jessica Swale has proved herself one of the finest at…

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Review: As You Like It, Shakespeare’s Globe

“Though I look old…I am strong and lusty” From the minute Michelle Terry’s Rosalind launches into an…

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Review: The Oresteia, Shakespeare’s Globe

“Why must we go over and over the woes of the past?” There’s something a little unfortunate about…

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Review: King John, Shakespeare’s Globe

“Mad world! mad kings! mad composition!” One of the terms most overused by reviewers and publicity writers…

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Review: Measure for Measure, Shakespeare’s Globe

“Which is the wiser here, Justice or Iniquity?” You don’t get many Measure for Measures for the…

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Review: The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare’s Globe

“I will not hear thee speak; I’ll have my bond” Following the exceptional Rupert Goold/RSC adaptation which…

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Full list of 2014 UK Theatre Awards winners

Best Performance in a Play Patrick O’Kane for QUIETLY, an Abbey Theatre production on tour Best Supporting…

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Review: ‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse

“I must speak or burst”   Short and sweet cos it is in the last week and…

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Review: The Comedy of Errors, Shakespeare’s Globe

“She is spherical – like a globe” There’s something lovely about the exposure that director Blanche McIntyre…