King Lear (Yellow Earth) @ The Cube
November 17, 2006
The final production of the month-long Cube season was the first of this year’s two ‘King Lear’s. Hi-tec and set in the near future (2020), this production translated Lear’s kingdom to the global business world, with Lear as a Shanghai CEO passing on the reins of the company to his three daughters. A collaboration between …
The Indian Boy (RSC) @ The Cube
November 11, 2006
This was the ‘big’ new production of the Cube- a new commission by the RSC, and a response to ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’. A new housing estate is being put up on some ancient woodland, and the builders find a mysterious Indian Boy in the trees. Knocking him out, he’s admitted to a psychiatric ward …
One Of These Days (RSC) @ The Cube
November 10, 2006
After waiting so long for a ticket, I’d have been disappointed if this play, a new response to ‘The Tempest’ by Leo Butler, hadn’t been at least entertaining. Fortunately, despite only being a recently-rehearsed reading of the play, it was absolutely worth it. The plot centred round an 18th century broken family- a protestant soldier, …
Twelfth Night (Filter) @ The Cube
November 3, 2006
While there have been a couple of work-in-progress events by the RSC so far (‘The Rape Of Lucrece’ and ‘The Two Noble Kinsmen’), tonight’s performance of ‘Twelfth Night’ was the first visiting company to be presenting their work in an unfinished format. This was directed by Sean Holmes, but as far from his flat ‘Julius …
Hamlet (Tiny Ninja Theater) @ The Cube
November 1, 2006
Last night was the event (as regular readers will know) that I’ve been waiting for for six months- ‘Hamlet’ performed by the Tiny Ninja Theater of New York. A 55 minute distillation of the play (interestingly, based primarily on the first ‘bad’ quarto of the text) performed by one man with an army of inch …
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 …
‘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 …
Troilus and Cressida (RSC/Edinburgh International Festival) @ The Royal Shakespeare Theatre
September 2, 2006
Firstly, thanks to the Edinburgh International Festival, there is a whole website of production photographs for this play, far too many to show here- you can see more at http://www.eif.co.uk/galleries/tandc2/?PHPSESSID=4c62742405b330dd95ccaedd678327a8 . This was, as you can tell from the pictures, a production that aspired to the epic. From the pre-recorded and lavish music to the …
The Tempest (RSC) @ The Royal Shakespeare Theatre
August 11, 2006
Last night’s show was ‘The Tempest’ at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, the third and final play performed by the company of ‘Antony & Cleopatra’ and ‘Julius Caesar’. The big draw tonight was, of course, Patrick Stewart as Prospero, but aside from that it’s the first of the romances to be shown as a full production …
Titus Andronicus (Ninagawa Company) @ The Royal Shakespeare Theatre
June 24, 2006
Yukio Ninagawa is a very famous director, though I should admit I’d never actually heard of him! He’s Japanese, directed ‘King Lear’ for the RSC a few years back and is currently putting on Japanese interpretations of every single Shakespeare play in turn. It seems obvious, then, that he should be contributing to the Complete …
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