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Review: As You Like It, Portsmouth City Museum Gardens, Thursday 12 May 2011
Originally written for The Public Reviews. ‘Under the greenwood tree’ and sheltered by the boughs of the Forest of Arden, As You Like It provides one of the Bard’s most evocative and apt settings for a...
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Shakespeare, Sandwiches & Showers – The Joys of Open Air Theatre
A clear, balmy summer’s evening; a picnic, plenty of sandwiches, maybe even a jug of Pimms; and a bit of theatrical entertainment. What could be better? Unfortunately, open air theatre is, like...
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The Play’s the Thing
The other week, I had the rare joy of seeing a Shakespeare play without having so much as browsed its pages beforehand. Rare because, while I am still depressingly far from achieving my eventual aim of...
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Archive: Review of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Rose Theatre Kingston
Time for another review from the pre-blog vault, this time of last year’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The Rose Theatre in Kingston is the stage for one of theatre’s most hotly anticipated...
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Review: Much Ado About Nothing, Wyndham’s Theatre, Friday 3 June 2011
‘There is a kind of merry war betwixt Signior Benedick and her; they never meet but there’s a skirmish of wit between them’ At the heart of Much Ado About Nothing and its enduring popularity is the...
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Guest Blog: Review of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Theatre Royal...
Review by guest blogger Ruth Thomlinson. I came at this play comparatively ignorant; like many people I studied Shakespeare’s play Hamlet at A-level, but only knew Stoppard’s work by repute. Trevor...
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Culture Vulture: Adaptations
What do Russell Crowe, Don Cheadle, Dick Van Dyke and Anne Hathaway all have in common? Fear not, reader, this isn’t the start of a bad joke. Not got any ideas? These thesps have all been named and...
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My Year in Theatre: Best of 2011
Time to jump on the end-of-the-year bandwagon with a round-up of all the best productions to grace our stages this year – or at least the best of the ones that I was able to see. Because I hate...
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Review: The Taming of the Shrew, Richmond Theatre
Ah, that old problem of the Shrew. This most irksome of Shakespeare’s plays is itself resistant to being tamed, often refusing to bend to directorial interpretations that try to smooth its rough,...
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Review: Macbeth, Globe Theatre
Originally written for Exeunt. At the Globe to Globe festival, murder has never been such a social event. All of the major scenes in this brashly vibrant Polish production seem to occur at lavish...
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The woman’s part: is single-sex casting sexist?
Originally written for The Guardian. At a performance before Christmas of Propeller’s Henry V – not the funniest of Shakespeare’s works – theatregoers, including myself, were in stitches. The source of...
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As You Like It, Royal Shakespeare Theatre
In The Forest and the Field, Chris Goode identifies the forest in Shakespeare as an inherently liminal space. It’s an area where identities blur, gender becomes fluid and appearances deceive; […]
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Samantha Spiro
Originally written for IdeasTap. Samantha Spiro has acted in everything from Shakespeare to musical theatre, as well as establishing herself as a familiar face on BBC Two sitcom Grandma’s House. […]
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Macbeth, Little Angel Theatre
Originally written for Exeunt. Ever pushing gently at the boundaries of what puppetry can and can’t do, the Little Angel Theatre’s latest challenge is a puppet adaptation of one of […]
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Review: As You Like It, Portsmouth City Museum Gardens, Thursday 12 May 2011
Originally written for The Public Reviews. ‘Under the greenwood tree’ and sheltered by the boughs of the Forest of Arden, As You Like It provides one of the Bard’s most evocative and apt settings for a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Shakespeare, Sandwiches & Showers – The Joys of Open Air Theatre
A clear, balmy summer’s evening; a picnic, plenty of sandwiches, maybe even a jug of Pimms; and a bit of theatrical entertainment. What could be better? Unfortunately, open air theatre is, like...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Play’s the Thing
The other week, I had the rare joy of seeing a Shakespeare play without having so much as browsed its pages beforehand. Rare because, while I am still depressingly far from achieving my eventual aim of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Archive: Review of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Rose Theatre Kingston
Time for another review from the pre-blog vault, this time of last year’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The Rose Theatre in Kingston is the stage for one of theatre’s most hotly anticipated...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Review: Much Ado About Nothing, Wyndham’s Theatre, Friday 3 June 2011
‘There is a kind of merry war betwixt Signior Benedick and her; they never meet but there’s a skirmish of wit between them’ At the heart of Much Ado About Nothing and its enduring popularity is the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Guest Blog: Review of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Theatre Royal...
Review by guest blogger Ruth Thomlinson. I came at this play comparatively ignorant; like many people I studied Shakespeare’s play Hamlet at A-level, but only knew Stoppard’s work by repute. Trevor...
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