Rough Magyck (Forkbeard Fantasy) @ The Cube
October 26, 2006
The first Cube production, by a company who specialise in multimedia presentation- and I hardly know where to begin. Entering the foyer of the theatre, the audience were all given lunchboxes with a range of ‘souvenirs’ inside (including fairy liquid and a complimentary peanut). Our evening was to be conducted by Hamlet Holidays and Arden …
Timon Of Athens (Cardboard Citizens) @ The Shakespeare Centre
October 25, 2006
Coming up the stairs of the Shakespeare Centre, we were all given a badge and asked to fill in our name, job title and salary bracket. Then, escorted into a room decorated for a corporate training event, we were fed gold chocolate bars, made comfortable and treated to a series of motivational speeches and powerpoint …
Antony and Cleopatra (RSC) @ The Swan Theatre
October 15, 2006
Last night’s play was the wonderful, universally lauded ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ starring Patrick Stewart and Harriet Walter, which I reviewed way back when I first started this blog. Then, though, I was standing in the top gallery of the Swan. Tonight, I was on the front row, at times mere inches from the actors. And …
‘Julius Caesar’ and ‘The Tempest’ (RSC) @ The Royal Shakespeare Theatre
October 12, 2006
Two entries for the price of one today, as I’ve been back to see two plays that for various reasons I didn’t fully digest first time I saw them. Many thanks to our sponsors at the CAPITAL centre for transport and cheap tickets! ‘Julius Caesar’ first. The interesting thing about seeing this production again was …
Regime Change (RSC/BBC Radio 3) @ The Swan Theatre
October 10, 2006
The first excitement of today was getting the free programme and seeing the cast list. Not only were several of the best actors of the ‘Julius Caesar’/’Tempest’ company (including Julian Bleach, Mariah Gale, John Hopkins, Joseph Alessi, David Rubin and Golda Rosheuvel) involved, but for this event only the fantastic actor Henry Goodman had come …
Cymbeline (Kneehigh) @ The Swan Theatre
September 21, 2006
Without beating around the bush, this production was simply breathtaking, one of the most complete pieces of theatre I’ve seen in a long time, and the perfect antidote to the sober and dull ‘Measure For Measure’ of last week. I’ve seen a lot of Kneehigh Theatre’s work in the past, but this was without the …
Measure For Measure (Theatre Royal Bath/Peter Hall Company) @ The Courtyard Theatre
September 14, 2006
This show marked the first appearance of the Peter Hall Company at the RSC– Peter Hall being the artistic director who founded the modern RSC back in the day. There was therefore a lot of prestige and expectation behind this production, the first major non-RSC event to be staged at the Courtyard Theatre. It looked …
The Comedy of Errors (Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama) @ The Swan Theatre
The last of the youth productions, and the only appearance of ‘Errors’ at the Festival, this was an excellent end to the mini-festival of Young Person’s Shakespeare, with a funny and fast production that truly captured the spirit of what is – I personally think – the funniest of Shakespeare’s comedies. This production was by …
The Tempest (Guildhall) @ The Swan Theatre
September 11, 2006
Firstly, it was really nice to see quite a few of the cast of the current RSC production of ‘The Tempest’ at this school’s performance by the Guildhall School of Music and Drama- it must be interesting to go and see a different take on the play you’re doing, and it’s nice to see actors …
The Rape Of Lucrece (RSC) @ The Swan Theatre
September 10, 2006
It’s a bit hard to know whether to call this an event or a production- it IS one of the fifty-four Complete Works productions, but as it was an hour and fifteen minute workshopped reading, it felt more like an event, a curio, than a full production. ‘The Rape Of Lucrece’, for anyone who doesn’t …
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