The Hollow Crown: Richard II @ BBC HD
June 30, 2012
Writing about web page http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00s90j1 The most exciting element of the BBC’s Shakespeare Unlocked is off to a storming start. Rupert Goold’s film of Richard II, divorced of the gimmickry and attention deficit lack of focus that characterises his stage work (sometimes to wonderful effect, sometimes disastrously) is a slick, subtle, well acted and creative …
Free Teaching Shakespeare webinar
June 29, 2012
Writing about web page http://www.teachingshakespeare.ac.uk/ For readers interested in Shakespearean pedagogy, there’s now a very exciting new resource that I’m touting on behalf of my former colleagues at the University of Warwick. "Teaching Shakespeare" is a collaboration between Warwick and the Royal Shakespeare Company, creating a package of interactive resources, guides and videos for use …
The Duchess of Malfi (Stage on Screen) @ Greenwich Theatre [on DVD]
June 28, 2012
Writing about web page http://www.stageonscreen.com/the-duchess-of-malfi.php A much briefer review to accompany my earlier piece on Stage on Screen’s production of Doctor Faustus, this time of Elizabeth Freestone’s The Duchess of Malfi. Cross-cast with the same company’s Volpone, Freestone’s take on Malfi is more straightforward than either, treating the play as a chamber piece in a …
Julius Caesar (RSC/Illuminations) @ BBC4
June 25, 2012
Writing about web page http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01k7lv5/Julius_Caesar/ I’ve not yet had a chance to see the RSC’s new production of Julius Caesar, directed by Gregory Doran and currently playing in Stratford. The concept behind the production is fascinating, if not without its problems – an all-black British cast, performing the play as set in an unnamed modern …
Doctor Faustus (Stage on Screen) @ Greenwich Theatre [on DVD]
June 24, 2012
Writing about web page http://www.stageonscreen.com/doctor-faustus.php The Stage on Screen project is a simple idea; so simple, perhaps, that one wonders why the market hasn’t already been cornered. Four productions of early canonical plays (Volpone, Dr Faustus, The Duchess of Malfi and The School for Scandal) were specially commissioned, directed by Elizabeth Freestone and performed to …
Henry V (Theatre Delicatessen) @ Marylebone Gardens
June 13, 2012
Writing about web page http://www.theatredelicatessen.co.uk/?page_id=1404 In the year of the London Olympics – and even more noticable in a week where England faced off against France in their opening match of the European Championships – it is perhaps unsurprising that the schedules are crowded with Henry V, including the productions by Propeller and the Globe …
The Bloody Banquet (Blood and Thunder Theatre Company) @ The Shakespeare Institute
June 10, 2012
Writing about web page http://bloodandthundertheatre.org.uk/#/productions/4560980158 Thomas Dekker’s The Bloody Banquet (possibly written in collaboration with Thomas Middleton) has not been performed, to my knowledge, since the seventeenth century. It was a pleasure, therefore, to be involved in a major new revival of the play in the form of a one-off staged reading in Stratford-upon-Avon, as …
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