As You Like It (RSC) @ The Courtyard Theatre
May 29, 2009
Writing about web page http://www.rsc.org.uk/whatson/7293.aspx Long time readers will know that As You Like It is one of my least favourite Shakespeare plays. In fact, as much as this goes against the grain of my general Shakesepearean outlook, it’s one that I personally find works better on the page than the stage. Once in the Forest …
Romeo and Juliet @ Shakespeare’s Globe
May 14, 2009
Writing about web page http://www.shakespeares-globe.org/theatre/annualtheatreseason/romeojuliet/ The desire to cast Romeo and Juliet as young as possible is deep-ingrained in theatre directors. In Dominic Dromgoole’s new production for Shakespeare’s Globe, for example, the actors playing Juliet, Benvolio and Tybalt all make their professional stage debut. It’s an ongoing risk: the potential gains in youth and energy …
Compulsion @ ITV1
May 5, 2009
Writing about web page http://www.itv.com/PressCentre/Presspacks/Compulsion/default.html This one almost slipped under the wire. Last night, ITV premiered a new one-off drama called Compulsion, heavily based on Middleton and Rowley’s The Changeling and starring Ray Winstone and Parminder Nagra. The actual "Changeling" subplot is completely removed in order to focus on the main relationship between Anjika (Nagra, …
The Winter’s Tale (RSC) @ The Courtyard Theatre
May 4, 2009
Writing about web page http://www.rsc.org.uk/whatson/7291.aspx The new RSC ensemble is now officially up and running in Stratford, with The Winter’s Tale and As You Like It both playing in rep at the Courtyard. At the moment I’m curious to see whether the new ensemble format will prove as rich as the old; where the Histories …
The Tempest in Adaptation @ The CAPITAL Centre Studio
May 1, 2009
Writing about web page http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/pagestage/ Shakespeare Page-to-Stage-to-Page is a specialist module for English undergraduate finalists, concerned with Shakespearean performance and with a particular concern for adaptation and reviewing. As part of the class, the students work on a practical project, highlights of which opened the CAPITAL Centre’s New Work Festival today. The small audience were …
‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore (WUDS) @ Warwick Arts Centre Studio
Writing about web page http://www.wuds.co.uk/ Warwick University Drama Society’s new production of ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore promised a "noir sheen", and a sheen was duly delivered. Femme fatale? Check, in Maria Askew’s seductive Hippolita. Moody hard men lighting cigarettes under dim street lighting? Check, as Jack Churchill’s skinheaded Grimaldi (referencing the later noir of …
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