Hamlet (Guildford Shakespeare Company) @ Holy Trinity Church, Guildford
February 9, 2022
This review is of a preview, after press night was delayed. A week or so ago, The Stage awarded its ‘Unsung Heroes’ honour to all understudies, in recognition of a year that has not only seen planned understudies and swings working overtime to keep productions going as casts have fallen prey to COVID, but even …
The Summoning of Everyman (Shakespeare Institute Players) @ Holy Trinity Church
August 20, 2011
Everyman is a genuinely powerful text. Whether you’re religious or not, this anonymous medieval morality play gets to the absolute nub of the big questions. What can we take with us? What is the point of life? And at the end of it all, are we ultimately alone? The Shakespeare Institute Players made a virtue …
The Phoenix And The Turtle (RSC) @ The Courtyard Theatre and Holy Trinity Church
November 6, 2006
The holy grail of the Complete Works, and one that cost me a great deal of time and money in order to get a ticket for! But thoroughly worth it, despite me not knowing the poem at all. The evening began in the Courtyard, with a talk from Michael Wood about the poem. Without going …
Henry VIII (AandBC) @ Holy Trinity Church
August 29, 2006
I arrived at Holy Trinity Church tonight and was stopped by a passer–by who asked me if they regularly put on plays at the church, to which I replied that it was a one–off for AandBC, the visiting company. This gent was quite disapproving of the use of a church for theatre, and I do …