REVIEW: By Heart
Reading Time: 2 minutes‘By Heart’, devised and delivered by Tiago Rodrigues, is a piece of experimental theatre that invites 10 audience members to partake in a group challenge: to memorise Shakespeare’s Sonnet 30.
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REVIEW: Unscripted Shakespeare
Reading Time: 2 minutesNew York based improv company Thorn and Petal Stick has been quick to show what they’ve got up their lacey Elizabethan sleeves at this year’s Fringe. And the pleasantest non-surprise of any deliciously good improv show? It’s different every night.
REVIEW: Rough Magic
Reading Time: 3 minutesWitches, warlocks, spirits, ghosts, and magical beings of every kind– step into the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare’s Globe and prepare to become an Apprentice Guardian of Destiny!
REVIEW: The Winter’s Tale
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Winter's Tale Directed by Yaël Farber for RSC, and featuring double Olivier and Tony Award-winner Bertie Carvel (Matilda The Musical), Madeline Appiah, Aïcha Kossoko and John Light this reimagined tale is brought vividly to life through Soutra Gilmour’s elemental set and costume design, and striking lighting design by Tim Lutkin.
REVIEW: Much Ado About Nothing
Reading Time: 2 minutesOn a beautiful, warm evening, there’s really no better setting for Shakespeare than at the Oxford Castle.
REVIEW: As You Like It
Reading Time: 3 minutesAs far as accessible and outdoorsy Early Modern comedies go, As You Like It is a pretty intuitive candidate. A split setting between town and woods allows East London Shakespeare Festival to make clever use of not only their parkland surroundings, but also the facade of Clissold House in Stoke Newington – a building whose period brickwork and Victorian austerity all but meld into the show’s own set-pieces.
REVIEW: Taming of the Shrew at Shakespeare in the Squares
Reading Time: 2 minutesA joy-filled summer celebration of the bard
REVIEW: Romeo and Juliet
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn an era of safe revivals, that daring alone makes this Romeo and
Juliet a rare and thrilling spectacle.
REVIEW: LEAR at Traverse Theatre
Reading Time: 2 minutes“An excellent idea - but not much more”
IN CONVERSATION WITH:Toby Gordon
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe sat down with Toby who directs a new production of Taming of the Shrew at Shakespeare in the Squares, opening 4th June at Leinster Square.