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The Two Noble Kinsmen in Cambridge

Writing about web page http://www.junction.co.uk/artist/3329 I just found out about this (thanks: Mervyn Capel) – a very rare production of The Two Noble Kinsmen happening in Cambridge next week. It’s a student drama group, but even so, I’d be hugely excited to get down to this. Assuming I can’t find the time, though, please do …

The Next Complete Works

Shakespeare’s Globe have just announced their exciting 2012 project -a new Complete Works of Shakespeare. This will see the Globe present 38 plays (don’t get me started on the absence of Edward III and Thomas More!) over six months, each one in a different language. The Bardathon was founded in the spirit of ‘event Shakespeare’, based on the …

Antonio’s revenge by Edward’s Boys

Antonio’s Revenge by John Marston (1599) 7.30pm Wednesday 9th March    The Moser Theatre, Wadham College, Oxford Tickets from School Office: 01789-293351.    Email: headspa@kes-stratford.org.uk 7.30pm Thursday 10th March    Levi Fox Hall, King Edward VI School Tickets from School Office: 01789-293351.    Email: headspa@kes-stratford.org.uk 7.30pm Saturday 12th March       Levi Fox Hall, King Edward VI School Tickets from School …

Special Issue of Shakespeare Bulletin

Shakespeare Bulletin – Special Theatre Reviews Section – Spring 2012 We are soliciting reviews of the BEST and the WORST productions of Shakespeare and other early modern drama in the first decade of the twenty-first century. The theatre reviews section in the Spring 2012 issue of Shakespeare Bulletin will follow a somewhat unusual format.  We …

End of Year review

It’s been a relatively quiet year on the Shakespeare front, though still enough to justify a quick round-up of the year’s high- and low-lights. There have been a few too many routine productions this year for my liking. Specifically, the National Theatre’s Hamlet and the Bridge Project As You Like It typified the safe, conservative …

Too Many Danes

How many Hamlets can we sit through? In many ways, we’re still in the shadow of the RSC and Donmar "celebrity" productions, more recently joined by the National’s major stab. It’s one of the big institutional shows, and it’s had a good run round the main theatres over the last year and a bit. But …

For the Christmas wishlist

Courtesy of the National Theatre bookshop. You too can pretend you’re part of Team Hamlet at The Mousetrap: Hamlet ‘Villain’ T-shirt £15.00

RSC 50th anniversary season

Writing about web page http://www.rsc.org.uk/about-us/press/3481.aspx Plenty to be excited about in the announcement of the new RSC season, which marks both the first new productions to play in the redeveloped RST and the fiftieth anniversary of the modern RSC. Macbeth directed by Michael Boyd: I’m genuinely excited to see what Boyd – with his vivid …

New Globe season – and some more Jonson

Writing about web page http://shakespeares-globe.org/press/ Cheers to Duncan, as ever, for the tip: Shakespeare’s Globe has announced its new season, and it’s a fascinating one: All’s Well, Much Ado and – of special interest to me – Faustus, as well as touring productions of Hamlet and As You Like It. Also, the White Bear Theatre …

Another sellout

Sold out already! Have to say, this wasn’t one I was overly excited about (my gut tells me it’ll be deeply conservative, light entertainment, though I honestly hope I’m wrong), but the British ticket-buying public have made the decision for me…. Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare COTTESLOE THEATRE   PLEASE NOTE: This production is now …