Category: Theatre
Weekend #1 – Shakespeare
It looks like I will be doing a fair amount of travelling over the next few weekends…
DVD Review: The Winter’s Tale (RSC at the Barbican, 1998)
“Verily, I speak it in the freedom of my knowledge” It is no surprise to anyone who…
DVD Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (RSC 1996)
“Thou art translated” Perhaps at the time, this 1996 RSC adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream by…
DVD Review: The Tempest (Julie Taymor)
“Behold the wronged Duchess of Milan, Prospera” Julie Taymor’s film of The Tempest sank from view rather…
The 2011 Manchester Theatre Awards nominations
OPERA Albert Herring, Royal Northern College of Music Gianni Schicchi, English Touring Opera, Buxton Opera House Lucia…
Review: Travelling Light, National Theatre
“I don’t like it when he calls it a movie” Perhaps I am more ignorant of Jewish…
Review: Lovesong, Lyric Hammersmith
“There are going to be moments like this where I have to know you can jump when…
Review: Mary Stuart, Faction at the New Diorama
“Who could look at these naked walls and say that majesty lives here” When I booked in…
Review: Huis Clos, Donmar Warehouse at Trafalgar Studios 2
“L’enfer, c’est les autres” Some things will never change, one of them being my complete lack of…
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