Category: RSC

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Review: Love’s Labour’s Lost, Royal Shakespeare Theatre

“The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo. You that way: we this way”…

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Review: Two Gentlemen of Verona, RSC at Theatre Royal Newcastle

“Foster’d, illumin’d, cherish’d, kept alive” I’ve become a bit of a dab hand at making work trips…

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Winners of the 2014 What’s on Stage Awards

BEST ACTRESS IN A PLAY Helen Mirren – The Audience at the Gielgud (49.5%) Anne-Marie Duff – Strange Interlude at the…

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Review: Wolf Hall/Bring Up The Bodies, Swan Theatre

“He needs to be on the side of the light” Hilary Mantel became the first woman to…

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2014 What’s On Stage Award nominations

BEST ACTRESS IN A PLAY Helen Mirren – The Audience at the Gielgud  Anne-Marie Duff – Strange Interlude at the NT…

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Review: All’s Well That Ends Well, RSC at Theatre Royal Newcastle

“Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear”   Whether considered a problem play or no, the…

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Review: As You Like It, RSC at Theatre Royal Newcastle

“I am that he, that poor unfortunate he” As You Like It is one of those plays…

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Review: Hamlet, RSC at Theatre Royal Newcastle

“Brevity is the soul of wit”   I can’t say I wasn’t warned… Work has seen me…

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Review: Boris Godunov, Swan Theatre

“Everywhere they curse the name of Boris” The instinctive reaction when one hears of a production of…