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A Midsummer Night’s Dream – RSC 2016

A Midsummer Night’s Dream: “A Play For The Nation”
By William Shakespeare

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Directed by Erica Whyman
Designed by Tom Piper
Music by Sam Kenyon
 

Royal Shakespeare Company,
Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
Saturday 27th February 2016, 13.15

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CAST (TWO UNDERSTUDY CHANGES)

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Hippolyta – Lila Clements (understudy)
Theseus – Sam Redford
Egeus – Peter Hamilton Dyer
Puck- Lucy Ellison
Titania – Laura Harding (understudy)
Oberon – Chu Omambala
Hermia – Mercy Ojelade
Helena – Laura Riseborough
Lysander – Jack Holden
Demetrius – Chris Nayak
Philostrate – Jon Trenchard
First Fairy – Theo St. Claire
Fairy / Music Director – Tarek Merchant
Fairies:
Alex Tomkins
Jamie Cameron
Aimee Gray
Mari Izzard
Company:
Ben Goffe

WITH THE BEAR PIT COMPANY

Shirley Allwork – Starveling, the Tailor
Charlotte Froud – Snug, the Joiner
Roger Ganner- Quince, the Carpenter
David Mears – Bottom, The Weaver
Dominic Skinner – Flute, the Bellows Mender
David Southeard – Snout, the Tinker

Midsummer Night's Dream

SEE ALSO: A Midsummer Night’s Dream RSC 2016 Revisited Stratford, (July) for a review of the same production five months later, with a different set of Mechanicals from Belfast.

This is a brilliant concept – that is to engage amateur companies from across the nation (hence the subtitle A Play For The Nation) and have them play the rude mechanicals, with the professionals performing all the other roles. Not only that, but there will be a different amateur company in each venue, with two in Stratford. That’s 84 amateurs. Elizabethan theatre grew out of two British traditions. First was the Mystery Cycles in the great cities, where each craft guild (a guild owned secrets of its trade, or “mysteries”) put on one scene from the Bible story on carts drawn through the streets. These scenes were related to the craft, so the carpenters might build Noah’s Ark, or the Goldsmiths might do the three Magi. The other thread was the student dramas by boy players in the Inns of Court and elsewhere, part of the Renaissance rediscovered interest in classical plays, and sometimes performed in Latin or Greek. Shakespeare lampooned both and was in contest with the student companies for the Blackfriars Theatre. The programme notes that the very last Mystery Cycle performance was in 1579 in Coventry, a mere 20 miles from Stratford, so the young Shakespeare could conceivably have seen it, and therefore we get to the rude mechanicals and their performance of Pyramus and Thisbe another story of forbidden love, and one that dates from Ovid and which was retold by Chaucer. Just the sort of classical story the boy players could have done in the Inns of Court then. So the play within a play is a double-edged sword.

The press night reviews and the photos show The Nonentities company, and Dominic Cavendish in the Telegraph reckons “the freshest most entertaining moments came from the incomers” . On our Saturday it’s been switched to The Bear Pit Company. I’d guess they intend the local companies to use local accents, and reviewers picked out the West Midlands accents of The Nonentities from Kidderminster for particular praise. The Bear Pit Company are from Stratford-Upon-Avon, and prove the oft-quoted statement on British accents, i.e. the main Southern accent stops about 100 yards north of Stratford, so they’re mainly RP Southern, with the exception of the Welsh lion.

When I first heard of it, I assumed that the amateur groups would exclude Bottom, who has to interact with the professionals and is usually a “name actor” role (I’ve seen David Walliams and David Troughton for example) but no, Bottom is a local find too. So there will be many different versions … or not? Are they all being directed to follow the same interpretation of the roles? The Bear Pit Company site says they rehearsed under their own director, Nicky Cox, before working with Erica Whyman. I’m guessing every one is different. The Nonentities had a female Peter Quince and mentioned the Lantern acting as a boom operator. The Bear Pit Company had an older female lantern (she looked brilliant too) and a male Peter Quince.

I’d love to see another performance with a different set of actors to compare. You can see them all at the end of the season in Stratford, after they have toured the country. The tour goes to Belfast, Glasgow, Truro, Norwich, Newcastle, Blackpool, Bradford, Canterbury, Cardiff, London and Nottingham Annoyingly, they’re giving the central South a total miss, perhaps having done the accent at Stratford. I would have hoped for Bath, or Bristol or Brighton or Southampton or Chichester or Salisbury or even Poole … but Bath has their own production of the play later in the year. I’d love to see two lots.

The cast list throws up a major change from the norm. Since Peter Brooks production, it’s become standard to combine Theseus and Oberon with one actor, and combine Titania and Hippolyta. Not here. We’re on pre-1969 style, and with a definite purpose. It’s also normal to combine Egeus (Hermia’s dad) and Philostrate, Theseus’s major domo, in this case for economy. But here they’re separate too.

The separation of Theseus /Hippolyta from Oberon / Titania is a deliberate part of the concept. The play takes place in what appears to be a bombed out theatre. The reviews and programme say “in the 1940s” but I think it’s more specific than that. Some of the schoolkids have luggage labels pinned on their clothes, so they are evacuees. As there was little bombing in 1939, I’d say that means 1940. Egeus (Peter Hamilton Dyer) in a perfect touch is a high-ranking RAF officer, and is treated with deference and salutes. It’s the Battle of Britain. Egeus had so many rings on his sleeve, I think he was an Air Marshall.

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The Forest transformation (here with Ayesha Dharkar)

When they switch to the Forest of Arden, which they do with a BANG! , red banners descend and a sea of red petals floats down. It signals the Hindu Festival of Holi: the festival of colours and most significantly, of sharing love. Look at the programme and flier above. Ayesha Dharkar is a British-Indian actress (she was Queen Jamilla in Star Wars II- Attack of The Clones). Chu Omambala is British, of, I assume, African descent. They are both a breeze of exotic beauty, male and female, in contrast to the uptight Theseus, Hippolyta and the stuffy authoritarian Egeus. In a weird piece of synchronicity, iTunes on shuffle just burst out with The Times They Are A-Changing as I was typing this. Exactly. It’s an image of Britain as it was and the dream of a multi-cultural Britain to follow. Great concept … unfortunately it didn’t happen a planned on this Saturday because Ayesha Dharkar was ill. Laura Harding moved from Hippolyta to Titania, and Lila Clements switched from a fairy to Hippolyta. It needs not saying that RSC understudies will be excellent. But we lost Ayesha Dharkar clad in red and gold in the photos, to a white, blonde Titania clad in royal blue. They had clearly decided not to follow the red colour coding if they had to switch. So however good Laura Harding was (and she was fabulous) we lost a great chunk of the ethnicity concept in losing Ayesha Dharkar.

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Laura Harding as Titania (from Laura Harding’s Twitter feed)

So to our fairy trio, Titania, Oberon and Puck. We have seen A Midsummer Night’s Dream most year’s since the original Peter Brook touring production made it our absolute favourite play. Memory is not sharp enough to do truly comparative ratings, but let’s simply say that we have never seen a better Oberon than Chu Omambala, and we have never seen a better Puck than Lucy Ellison. Lucy Ellison is the first time we’ve seen a Puck to compare with Richard McCabe in the 1989 John Caird production, with his schoolboy jacket, ballet tutu and bovver boots. That was the one with David Troughton as Bottom. Lucy Ellison was waif like, barefoot, tatty DJ with red fairy dust on the shoulders, top hat. In so many productions in the last twenty years, Puck has faded from importance. Here Puck was restored to centrality. She had the audience interaction and looks aside too, and was given echo for some speeches.

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Chu Omambala (Oberon) with Lucy Ellison (Puck)

Chu Omambala we both suspect will soon be lost to Hollywood. He has both the looks and the intense charisma. His lithe, white suited Oberon was magnificent, ever moving, ever watching. We also got that Oberon / Puck duo power of the very best versions of the play. Maybe Ayesha Dharkar as well would have been too much for us!

Physical casting was considered. Sam Redford’s tall beefily English Theseus towered above everybody. Lila Clements filling in for Hippolyta looked snooty and haughty … I’m sure Laura Harding would have played it the same way. There was plenty of costume too. When we see Theseus and Hippolyta with the sleeping lovers in the forest, they’re clad in tweedy 1940 hunting gear. In the wedding scene, we have evening dress with a sash for Theseus, and shimmering white frocks for all three brides. Even Egeus gets full RAF gear in the first scene, a greatcoat in the forest, and RAF ceremonial evening wear for the wedding.

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Hermia (Mercy Ojelade) and Demetrius (Chris Nayak). Lysander on right. Puck and Oberon watching from the steps.

This is a young cast, as befits a tour. “RSC DEBUT SEASON” is all over the programme. On to the lovers. Demetrius played by Chris Nayak has a pinstripe suit, slicked down hair and is smarmily deferential to his would-be father-in-law, Egeus. Lysander is in contrasting light coloured flannels. Hermia and Helena get 1940s frocks. The physical contrast is written into the text. Laura Riseborough was a tall English rose, while Hermia (usually dark-haired) was Mercy Ojelade. Laura reminded me of Miranda Hart, and I realized that the deliberate casting of the 6 foot Miranda Hart with the 5 foot Sally Hadland in the Miranda TV series was a Helena / Hermia contrast on a weekly basis. The best part of the play, since Peter Brooks brought out the physicality, is the Hermia / Helena fight. It is always flat out now, though in this one, Hermia got spun a full 360 degrees by Demetrius and Lysander. The fight got a huge laugh. When Helena calls Hermia a “dwarf”, Ben Goffe dashes on from the wings and smacks Lysander on the leg then keeps on running. Two reviews say Ben Goffe is “vertically challenged”. I don’t know if that’s joke PC speech, but “vertically challenged” suggests a shortish chap with slightly raised heels on his shoes, while Ben Goffe is a dwarf … I hope that’s not non-PC. As they were going for and getting flat out audience hilarity at this point, they were perhaps over-sensitive to cut Helena’s other insult to Hermia, “Ethiop” or African, which I guess is technically accurate. There is a series of things which suggests that as well as tall and short, Helena and Hermia were intended to be blonde and brunette. Hermia is called “tawny” and a “raven” compared to Helena’s “dove.”  Raven v Dove is black and white. Those were retained. Yes, yet another excellent set of full on physical lovers in the fight scene. We expect Hermia to be little and fierce and we expect a doleful, self-pitying and gangling Helena. I thought Demetrius’s smarminess was a particularly good touch, and something not always done.

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L to R: Hermia, Lysander, Demetrius, Helena

On the rhymes, there are a number in the text where “eye” rhymes with another word by forcing the second word from an “ee” sound at the end to an “eye” sound. Other productions have made a joke of forcing the rhyme, but they ignored it entirely here and gave the second word its natural modern pronunciation. One of the many arguments for Shakespeare using a short-a sound (as in Northern England and the USA) are rhymes like “pass” with “ass.” Here they retained the modern Southern long-a “parse” but had a short-a “ass.” Not important, but a choice, and unusually, one I noticed.

We’ve done the professionals. I’m wondering if I have my eye on seeing this production elsewhere so retaining the above and altering the below!

First the children. There will be 580 involved … or 58 groups of ten … during the tour. This is in itself, wonderful. The kids looked great in their 1940 costumes. Seeing them go on and off in line holding hands was a pageant in itself. Domenic Cavendish’s review thought the lullaby the children sing to lull Titania to sleep “a ghastly dirge.” My interval note was “utterly charming.”

Bear Pit in Midsummer

The Bear Pit Company, Bottom (David Mears) on piano stool

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More Bear Pit

It’s what all the reviews say about the amateurs and the pros. You cannot see the joins. I was fascinated. I’m sure David Mears will forgive me saying he was a huge Bottom (a joke that is inevitable when reviewing productions of this play), but he was. He has a fabulous vocal range and used it to the full. This was as striding a stagestruck Bottom as you will ever find. Physical contrast was considered again. Charlotte Froud was a tiny, Welsh-accented Snug / Lion. I loved the lion’s head, basically coils of shaved wood, as befits a joiner. Bottom as Pyramus had the top of his Greek helmet represented by three paintbrushes in similar style. Shirley Allwork as Starveling the tailor, was grey-haired, an older lady. Her reactions to the courtly watchers comments on her lantern as moon were very funny. Roger Ganner was Peter Quince, trying to run the rehearsal, and manage the show as it went on. Dominic Skinner was the bearded Flute, inevitably cast as Thisbe in long yellow dress and long white underpants and forced t speak high. David Southeard was Snout the Tinker who plays the wall (ah, a part I have done as an amateur!). I’m glad I didn’t have to do what he did so brilliantly. In this case the “chink” was between his legs, with the obvious accident, and at one point he has to wobble violently as the over-enthusiastic Bottom kneads his buttocks. So an excellent play within a play. The missing sword is a bit I’ve seen before, but they added an element which I’ll remember. No ploy spoiler. It was heart-warming to see them all get so much rapturous applause.

On the curtain calls, another “full marks” (of so many) to director Erika Whyman. There is a way of doing these things. The front should be taken by the principals in the story, not by the most famous … and the lovers should and did stand at the front. I still remember the lovers being elbowed aside for the bows by Jonathan Slinger in the clown part in the RSC All’s Well That End Well. It was done right here.

The music … the whole play starts with a sequence with Puck and the pianist competing on the piano (the grand piano later forms Titania’s bower), so that Puck bookends the play. The musicians have to take part too as extra fairies. The 1940s jazzy score worked for me.

We booked to see one of the “post-tour” performances in Stratford in July.

SO SEE ALSO: A Midsummer Night’s Dream RSC 2016 Revisited Stratford, (July) for a review of the same production five months later, with a different set of Mechanicals from Belfast.

RATING * * * * *

I think you will have guessed from the above that it’s an unequivocal five stars.
The concept, by Erika Whyman, deserves an extra star again, but it’s already got top rating.

THE PROGRAMME

At last! Something to criticize! I keep all my RSC programmes in a row on a shelf. They have been uniform A4 size for years. The Midsummer Night’s Dream is smaller format and style. The content is the usual high standard. Actually, I know enough about printing to accept the inevitable. They have to reprint the programme for every venue because of the amateur companies pages and children’s school pages. Their normal large format requires a long print run to get it at an economic £4 price, and all credit to the RSC, they knocked off 50p for this one. Well, I’m sorry. It’s gone in The Globe / Sam Wanamaker Playhouse section.

However, the synopsis, always an RSC strong point in getting the length down to an instant reminder of the plot, is printed in tiny text in pale grey. Being The Dream, I never even glanced at it until afterwards, but it’s in the wrong font size and colour. There is stuff they could drop to give it a page of its own.

OTHER REVIEWS OF A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM ON THIS BLOG:

  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – RSC 2011
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Headlong 2011
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Filter 2011
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Selladoor 2013
  • A Midsummer Nights Dream – Handspring 2013, Bristol
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Grandage 2013
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Globe 2013
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Propellor 2013
  • The Globe, 2016, directed by Emma Rice
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – BBC TV SCREEN version 2016
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, 2016
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream RSC 2016 Revisited
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Bath Theatre Royal, 2016
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Young Vic, 2017
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Watermill, Newbury 2018
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Bridge Theatre 2019
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Globe 2019
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Watermill on Tour, Poole 2019
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Sh!t-Faced Shakespeare, Wimborne 2019

CHU OMAMBALA
Hecuba, RSC 2015, Odysseus
King Lear Frank Langella Chichester Minerva, Albany

CHRIS NAYAK
Love’s Labour’s Won, (Much Ado About Nothing), RSC 2014, Borachio

PETER HAMILTON DYER
The Changeling, Wanamaker Playhouse, 2015

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        • American Queen Ensemble
        • Andy Williams
        • Animals & Friends / Steve Cropper
        • Art Garfunkel
        • Bap Kennedy
        • Bellowhead 2.2013
        • Bellowhead 2014
        • Bellowhead 2016
        • Bellowhead 7.2013
        • Bellowhead 7.2015
        • Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings 2011
        • Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings 2013
        • Bob Dylan – 2022
        • Bob Dylan 2002
        • Bob Dylan 2006
        • Bob Dylan 2017
        • Bonnie Raitt, Hyde Park 2018
        • Brian Wilson
        • BSO: Coming to America
        • BSO: Triumphal Elgar
        • Carole King – Hyde Park
        • Chris Rea
        • Chuck Prophet & Stephanie Finch
        • Cliff Richard 2018
        • Crosby, Stills & Nash
        • Dave Kelly, Maggie Bell, BBQ
        • Don Henley – Hyde Park
        • Dr John
        • Eliza Carthy
        • Emma Swift
        • Emmylou Harris
        • Fay Hield 2013
        • Fay Hield 2014
        • Fay Hield 2016
        • Fleetwood Mac 2003
        • FLIT
        • Garth Hudson 1999
        • Garth Hudson 2007
        • Glen Campbell
        • Glenn Tilbrook
        • Gospel in West Helena
        • Grupo Lokito
        • Hal Wilner Leonard Cohen Project
        • Hall & Oates
        • Ian Felice 2018
        • James Taylor 2014
        • James Taylor, Hyde Park 2018
        • Jimmy Cliff
        • Joan Baez
        • John Cale Paris 1919
        • John Cale, Brighton 2011
        • John Lydon
        • Johnny Flynn, Hyde Park 2018
        • Jon Boden & The Remnant Kings
        • Jonathan Wilson
        • Joni Mitchell’s Hejira and Mingus
        • Joyce Cobb
        • Judy Collins – 2020
        • Judy Collins 2010
        • Judy Collins 2013
        • k.d. lang
        • Kiefer Sutherland
        • King Crimson – 2018
        • KT Tunstall
        • Legends: Joanna Lumley, Twiggy, Lulu
        • Leonard Cohen Aug 2013
        • Leonard Cohen July 2009
        • Leonard Cohen Nov. 2008
        • Leonard Cohen O2 2008
        • Loudon Wainwright III
        • Louise Goffin – Hyde Park
        • Lulu
        • Margo Price
        • Martha Reeves & The Vandellas
        • Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick
        • Michael Kiwanuka – Hyde Park
        • Michelle Shocked 2001
        • Natalie Merchant
        • NKOTB
        • P.P. Arnold 2019
        • Paul Simon & Sting 2015
        • Paul Simon – Hyde Park 2018
        • Paul Simon 2016
        • Paul Simon Nov. 2006
        • Paul Simon Oct. 2000
        • Preston Shannon
        • Raghu Dixit
        • Raghu Dixit
        • Ralph McTell 2016
        • Richard Thompson 2017
        • Rita Coolidge
        • Rodriguez
        • Roger Chapman
        • Roger McGuinn
        • Rufus Wainwright
        • Sam Lee & Friends
        • Sandy Denny Tribute
        • Saving Grace
        • Seth Lakeman 2014
        • Shawn Colvin, Hyde Park Review
        • Simi Stone
        • Simon & Garfunkel 2004
        • Simone Felice – Oct 2015
        • Simone Felice 2011
        • Simone Felice April 2012
        • Simone Felice April 2014
        • Simone Felice July 2013
        • Simone Felice November 2014
        • Simone Felice Sept 2012
        • Simone Felice- Oct 2016
        • Sly & The Family Stone
        • Spiers & Boden 5.13
        • Spiers & Boden, 6.13
        • Spiers and Boden 2014
        • Steeleye Span
        • Suzanne Vega
        • Symphonic Pink Floyd
        • Taj Mahal
        • The Australian Pink Floyd
        • The Band
        • The Bleedin Noses
        • The Bootleg Beatles 2018
        • The Bootleg Beatles 2022
        • The Cactus Blossoms
        • The Civil Wars
        • The Decemberists
        • The Delines
        • The Demon Barbers
        • The Foundations
        • The Full English
        • The Grand Ole Opry
        • The Imagined Village
        • The Manfreds – 2016
        • The Manfreds 2011
        • The Manfreds, P.P. Arnold 2003
        • The Manfreds, P.P. Arnold, Zoot Money, Nov 2016
        • The Mastersons, Hymn For Her
        • The Mavericks
        • The palmer james group
        • The Platters
        • The Searchers
        • The Transports
        • The Unthanks 03.11
        • The Unthanks 04.2012
        • The Unthanks 10.2012
        • The Unthanks 12.11
        • The Unthanks 2.2015
        • The Unthanks 2019
        • The Unthanks 2022
        • The Unthanks 5.2017
        • The Waterboys
        • Thea Gilmore
        • Tom Jones
        • Van Morrison
          • Van Morrison 1998
          • Van Morrison 1999
          • Van Morrison 2000
          • Van Morrison 2001
          • Van Morrison 2002 Jan.
          • Van Morrison 2002 Oct.
          • Van Morrison 2003 Jul.
          • Van Morrison 2003 Sep.
          • Van Morrison 2005 Mar.
          • Van Morrison 2005 Nov.
          • Van Morrison 2007
          • Van Morrison 2012
          • Van Morrison 2013
          • Van Morrison 2019
        • Ward Thomas, Hyde Park
        • Zawinul Syndicate
        • Zoot Money
      • Gigs, venues and prices
      • HMV. His Master’s Voice silenced?
      • Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams
      • Music From Big Pink – 50th anniversary
      • Names, Scribble & Numbers
      • Nancy Sinatra
      • Note of Hope (Woody Guthrie)
      • Phil Everly RIP
      • Rock pictures
      • RoseAnn Fino
      • Shadows In The Night
      • Thank You For The Muzac
      • The Band reviews & pictures
      • The Beautiful Old
      • The Village Green Preservation Society
      • The Weight – covers
      • Twelve Songs For Christmas 2013
    • rants
      • 100 Days Plus and Counting …
      • Driving Me Mad …
      • A Fishy Story
      • A Legal Matter
      • A Post-Brexit Vision
      • Agatha Christie: Deduction in a dell’arte mask
      • Allergies … and lawyers
      • Baby Boomer v Wokeperson
      • Barcodes
      • Beaujolais Nouveau …
      • Best of 2011
      • Best of 2012
      • Best of 2013
      • Best of 2014
      • Best of 2015 – music
      • Best of 2015 – Theatre
      • Best of 2016 – Music
      • Best of 2016 – Theatre
      • Best of 2017 – Music
      • Best of 2017 – Screen
      • Best of 2017- Theatre
      • Best of 2018 – Music
      • Best of 2018 – theatre
      • Best of 2019 – Concerts
      • Best of 2019 – Theatre
      • Best of 2019- Music
      • Best of 2020
      • Best of 2020- Music
      • Best of 2022 – Music
      • Best of 2022- Theatre
      • Cars are cars
      • Chorizo is Vile
      • Christmas Markets
      • Christmases long past …
      • Civil Wars & Statues
      • Climate Change: my rant
      • Communication skills: Leaders TV debate 2015
        • Opposition Leader’s Debate, 16 April 2015
      • Crisis at the Cash Register
      • Culture Shock Bourbon Street
      • Cycling in London (and elsewhere)
      • Encounter: Saul Bellow
      • Eurovision 2022
      • Fawlty Towers and Tall Poppies
      • Flags and anthems
      • Football nicknames
      • Free Broadband in Every Packet!
      • Guilt and innocence
      • Hail, hail, the first of May
      • Howards End is a blur
      • In the April Garden …
      • In The Days of Covid-21
      • In the May Garden
      • Jangle Bells: shopping for Christmas
      • Jumble Sales
      • Land Of My Mother’s
      • London-centric theatre
      • Mail v Guardian
      • Major Brylcreem or My adventures in the CCF
      • Matinees
      • Not an amazing grace
      • On The Road: Information overkill
      • Parent and child spaces
      • Poppies
      • Princely Names
      • Quaint hotels
      • Remember, remember …
      • Secondhand Christmas
      • Shrink wrapping albums
      • Sloppy fiction?
      • Someone will call you back …
      • Sound … and Fury… at The Globe
      • SS-GB – Mumbling soundtracks
      • Supermarket check-outs
      • Surveys
      • Testing in schools
      • The “Poldark” Effect
      • The 2019 watershed?
      • The 70s were crap
      • The Building Behind Me …
      • The Cheerful e-bay seller
      • The Curse of The Crawleys: Downton Abbey Series 10
      • The Decline of Bournemouth
      • The End of Deference …
      • The Famous Five – by Paul F. Newman
      • The four day week?
      • The Great War
      • The Hacking Cough
      • The Long & The Short Of It
      • The March of The Halloumi Fries
      • The Shakespeare Cod-Piece
      • The Stitch Up
      • View From The Queue
      • What happened to car CD players?
      • What’s happened to air travel?
    • stage
      • ‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore – Cheek by Jowl
      • ‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore – Wanamaker
      • 8 Hotels
      • A Damsel in Distress
      • A Little Hotel On The Side
      • A Mad World My Masters
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – BBC TV 2016
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Bridge 2019
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Filter 2011
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Globe 2013
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Globe 2016
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Grandage 2013
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Propellor 2013
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – RSC 2011
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – RSC 2016
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Selladoor 2013
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Watermill 2018
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Watermill Tour 2019
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Young Vic
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Bath 2016
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Globe 2019
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream- Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream- Headlong
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream- Sh!t-Faced Shakespeare
      • A Midsummer Nights Dream – Handspring 2013
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream RSC 2016 Revisited
      • A Number
      • A Streetcar Named Desire NT Live
      • A Taste of Honey
      • A Very Very Very Dark Matter
      • A View From The Bridge
      • A Woman of No Importance
      • Abigail’s Party 2013
      • Absolute Hell
      • Ah, Wilderness!
      • Albion
      • All My Sons
      • All New People
      • All’s Well That Ends Well – RSC 2013
      • All’s Well That Ends Well- 2018
      • All’s Well That Ends Well- RSC 2022
      • Amadeus – 2014
      • Amadeus – NT 2017
      • American Buffalo
      • An Enemy of The People
      • An Ideal Husband 2018
      • An Ideal Husband- 2014
      • Antony & Cleopatra – RSC 2013
      • Antony & Cleopatra – RSC 2017
      • Antony and Cleopatra – Globe
      • Antony and Cleopatra 2012
      • Arcadia
      • Arden of Faversham
      • Around The World in 80 Days
      • As You Like It – Globe 2015
      • As You Like It – Globe 2018
      • As You Like It – National 2015
      • As You Like It – RSC 2019
      • As You Like It RSC 2013
      • Awful Auntie
      • Bakkhai
      • Balletboyz: The Talent
      • Barber Shop Chronicles
      • Bartholomew Fair
      • Beauty & The Beast (Ballet Theatre UK)
      • Before The Party
      • Birthday
      • Bitter Wheat
      • Black Comedy
      • Blithe Spirit
      • Blithe Spirit – Bath 2019
      • Blood Wedding
      • Blues For An Alabama Sky
      • Boudica
      • Bring Up The Bodies
      • Broken
      • Candida
      • Cardenio
      • Carmen Disruption
      • Caroline or Change
      • Comedy of Errors – Globe
      • Comedy of Errors – RSC, 2021
      • Comedy of Errors NT 2012
      • Comedy of Errors RSC ’12
      • Communicating Doors
      • Comus
      • Copenhagen
      • Coriolanus – NT Live
      • Coriolanus – RSC
      • Crazy For You
      • Curiosity Shop
      • Cymbeline – RSC
      • Cymbeline – Wanamaker
      • Dancing At Lughnasa
      • Death Of A Salesman
      • Deathtrap
      • Dedication
      • Dido, Queen of Carthage
      • Dinner With Saddam
      • Doctor Faustus
      • Don Carlos
      • Don Juan in Soho
      • Don Quixote
      • Doubt – a parable
      • Dream
      • Dunsinane
      • Echo’s End
      • Educating Rita
      • Edward II
      • Electro Kif
      • Endgame / Rough for Theatre II
      • Eyam
      • Fallen Angels
      • Fantastic Mr Fox
      • Far
      • Farinelli and The King
      • Fences
      • First Light
      • Flare Path
      • Follies
      • For Services Rendered
      • Forests
      • Fortune’s Fool
      • Forty Years On
      • Fracked! Or Please Don’t Use The F-Word.
      • Frankenstein – NT Encore
      • French Without Tears
      • Funny Girl
      • Future Conditional
      • George’s Marvellous Medicine
      • Girl From The North Country
      • God of Carnage
      • Gypsy
      • Hairspray, The Musical
      • Half A Sixpence
      • Hamilton
      • Hamlet – Cumberbatch
      • Hamlet – Globe 2014
      • Hamlet – Maxine Peake
      • Hamlet – NT 2010
      • Hamlet – RSC 2016
      • Hamlet RSC 2013
      • Hamlet- Almeida / BBC 2017
      • Hamlet- Young Vic 2011
      • Hangmen
      • Harlequinade / All On Her Own
      • Harlequinade / All On Her Own – review
      • Hay Fever
      • Hecuba
      • Hedda Gabler
      • Hedda Tesman
      • Henry IV Parts 1 & 2 RSC
      • Henry V – 2018
      • Henry V – Jude Law
      • Henry V – RSC 2015
      • Henry VI – Rebellion
      • Henry VI – Wars of The Roses
      • Henry VI: Three plays
      • Hobson’s Choice
      • Hogarth’s Progress
      • Home
      • Home, I’m Darling
      • Hysteria
      • Imogen (Cymbeline) – Globe 2016
      • Importance of Being Earnest 2010
      • Importance of Being Earnest – Suchet, 2015
      • Importance of Being Earnest – Watermill
      • Importance of Being Earnest 2014
      • Importance of Being Earnest- 2018
      • Inala
      • Institute
      • Into The Hoods – Remixed
      • Ivanov
      • Jack Absolute Flies Again
      • Jeeves and Wooster
      • Jerusalem
      • Jerusalem – 2018
      • Jitney
      • John Gabriel Borkman
      • Julius Caesar – Globe 2014
      • Julius Caesar – RSC 2012
      • Julius Caesar – RSC 2017
      • Ka
      • King Charles III
      • King John – Globe 2015
      • King John – Rose, 2016
      • King John – RSC 2019
      • King Lear Frank Langella
      • King Lear – Antony Sher, RSC 2016
      • King Lear – Barrie Rutter
      • King Lear – David Haig
      • King Lear – Globe 2017
      • King Lear – McKellen 2017
      • King Lear – Russell-Beale
      • Kiss Me Kate
      • Kunene and The King
      • La Bête
      • Lady Windermere’s Fan
      • Leopoldstadt
      • Life of Galileo
      • Little Shop of Horrors
      • Local Hero
      • Long Day’s Journey Into Night
      • Love
      • Love For Love
      • Love’s Labour’s Lost
      • Love’s Labour’s Lost – 2018
      • Love’s Labour’s Lost- 2016
      • Love’s Labour’s Won
      • Love’s Sacrifice
      • Love, Love, Love
      • Macbeth – Globe 2016
      • Macbeth – McAvoy 2013
      • Macbeth – National Theatre 2018
      • Macbeth – Tara Arts
      • Macbeth – Young Vic
      • Macbeth RSC 2018
      • Macbeth, RSC 2011
      • Macbeth, Watermill 2019
      • Macbeth- Chichester 2019
      • Macbeth- Wanamaker 2018
      • Mack & Mabel
      • Malory Towers
      • Man and Superman
      • Mary Poppins
      • Me and My Girl
      • Measure for Measure – Globe 2015
      • Measure for Measure – Young Vic
      • Measure for Measure RSC 2012
      • Measure For Measure- RSC 2019
      • Medea NT live
      • Miss Julie / Black Comedy
      • Miss Littlewood
      • Mojo
      • Monsieur Popular
      • Mrs Warren’s Profession
      • Much Ado About Nothing – Globe 2014
      • Much Ado About Nothing – Globe 2017
      • Much Ado About Nothing – NT 2022
      • Much Ado About Nothing – Old Vic 2013
      • Much Ado About Nothing – Rose 2018
      • Much Ado About Nothing – RSC 2014
      • Much Ado About Nothing- Northern Broadsides
      • Much Ado About Nothing- RSC 2016
      • Much Ado About Nothing- RSC 2022
      • Much Ado About Nothing- Wyndhams 2011
      • Murder On The Orient Express (stage)
      • Murder, Margaret and Me
      • My Brilliant Friend (play)
      • My Night With Reg
      • Neighbourhood Watch
      • Nell Gwynn
      • Nice Fish
      • No Man’s Land
      • Noises Off
      • Obsession
      • Oklahoma! – Chichester
      • Once
      • One Man, Two Guvnors
      • Othello – Globe 2018
      • Othello – RSC 2015
      • Othello NT 2013
      • Othello- ETT 2018
      • Othello- Wanamaker 2017
      • Othello- Watermill 2022
      • Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour
      • Our Man in Havana (musical)
      • People
      • People Like Us
      • Pericles
      • Peter & The Starcatcher
      • Peter and Alice
      • Peter Gynt
      • Peter Pan (pantomime)
      • Peter Pan Goes Wrong
      • Photograph 51
      • Pitcairn
      • Plastic
      • Platonov
      • Playing Cards 1: Spades
      • Plenty
      • POSH
      • Present Laughter – Chichester 2018
      • Present Laughter – Old Vic 2019
      • Present Laughter- Bath 2003
      • Present Laughter- Bath 2016
      • Pressure
      • Private Lives
      • Privates On Parade
      • Punishment Without Revenge
      • Punk Rock
      • Pygmalion
      • Quatermaine’s Terms
      • Queen Anne
      • Quiz – James Graham
      • Racing Demon
      • Ralegh: The Treason Trial
      • Relative Values
      • Richard II – Globe
      • Richard II – RSC
      • Richard III – Almeida
      • Richard III – Apollo 2012
      • Richard III – Freeman
      • Richard III – RSC 2012
      • Richard III – RSC 2022
      • Richard III – Spacey, 2011
      • Robin Hood (panto)
      • Romantics Anonymous
      • Romeo & Juliet – Globe 2017
      • Romeo & Juliet – RSC 2018
      • Romeo & Juliet 2014 – Box Clever
      • Romeo & Juliet, Headlong 2012
      • Romeo & Juliet- Branagh 2016
      • Romeo and Juliet – NT, 2021
      • Romeo and Juliet- Globe 2015
      • Romeo and Juliet: Tobacco Factory
      • Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
      • Ross
      • Rules for Living
      • Salomé – RSC
      • Same Time, Next Year
      • School nativities
      • Secondary Cause of Death
      • Separate Tables
      • Shakespeare in Love
      • She Stoops To Conquer – Bath 2015
      • She Stoops to Conquer – Rain or Shine
      • Sing Yer Heart Out For The Lads
      • Skylight
      • Slava’s Snowshow
      • Snow in Midsummer
      • South Pacific
      • Spring Awakening
      • Stepping Out
      • Strife
      • Swan Lake
      • Sweet Bird of Youth
      • Switzerland
      • Tamburlaine
      • Tangomotion
      • Tartuffe- RSC
      • The Alchemist – RSC
      • The Argument
      • The Beauty Queen of Leenane
      • The Beauty Queen of Leenane – 2021
      • The Beaux Stratagem
      • The Birthday Party
      • The Book of Mormon
      • The Broken Heart
      • The Canterbury Tales
      • The Captive Queen
      • The Caretaker
      • The Chalk Garden
      • The Changeling
      • The City Madam
      • The Constant Wife
      • The Country
      • The Country Girls
      • The Country Wife
      • The Cripple of Inishmaan
      • The Crucible, NT 2022
      • The Crucible, Old Vic 2014
      • The Deep Blue Sea – 2019
      • The Deep Blue Sea-NT live, 2016
      • The Doctor
      • The Dresser
      • The Duchess of Malfi – 2012
      • The Duchess of Malfi – 2014
      • The Duchess of Malfi – RSC 2108
      • The Entertainer
      • The Famous Five: A New Musical
      • The Fantastic Follies of Mrs Rich
      • The Ferryman (Acts 2 & 3)
      • The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk
      • The Four Seasons: A Reimagining
      • The Game of Love and Chance
      • The Ghost Train
      • The Height of The Storm
      • The Homecoming
      • The Hot House
      • The Hypochondriac
      • The Hypocrite
      • The Jew of Malta
      • The Knight of The Burning Pestle
      • The Ladykillers
      • The Lie
      • The Lieutenant of Inishmore- 2018
      • The Lieutenant of Inishmore-2001
      • The Lock In
      • The Lock In Christmas Carol
      • The Magistrate – NT Live
      • The Magna Carta Plays
      • The Man In The White Suit
      • The Merchant of Venice – Almeida
      • The Merchant of Venice – Globe
      • The Merchant of Venice – RSC
      • The Merry Wives – Northern Broadsides
      • The Merry Wives of Windsor – Globe 2019
      • The Merry Wives of Windsor – RSC 2012
      • The Merry Wives of Windsor- RSC 2018
      • The Misanthrope ETT
      • The Miser
      • The Narcissist
      • The Nightingales
      • The Norman Conquests
        • Living Together
        • Round & Round The Garden
        • Table Manners
      • The Odyssey
      • The Painkiller (2016)
      • The Play That Goes Wrong
      • The Play What I Wrote
      • The Price
      • The Provoked Wife
      • The Recruiting Officer
      • The Rehearsal
      • The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
      • The Rivals
      • The Roaring Girl
      • The Rover
      • The Ruling Class
      • The School for Scandal
      • The Seagull
      • The Seagull- Chichester
      • The Seven Year Itch
      • The Shoemaker’s Holiday
      • The Silver Tassie
      • The Southbury Child
      • The Spire
      • The Storm
      • The Syndicate
      • The Taming of The Shrew – RSC 2012
      • The Taming of The Shrew – RSC 2019
      • The Taming of The Shrew- Globe 2016
      • The Taxidermist’s Daughter
      • The Tempest – Bath Ustinov
      • The Tempest RSC 2012
      • The Tempest RSC 2016
      • The Tempest- Wanamaker
      • The Truth
      • The Two Noble Kinsmen- 2018
      • The Two Noble Kinsmen- RSC
      • The Unfriend
      • The Upstart Crow
      • The Wars of The Roses
        • Edward IV
        • Henry VI
        • Richard III
      • The Watsons
      • The Way of The World
      • The Weir
      • The Whale
      • The White Devil – Globe
      • The White Devil – RSC
      • The Winter’s Tale – Branagh
      • The Winter’s Tale – Cheek by Jowl
      • The Winter’s Tale – Globe 2018
      • The Winter’s Tale – RSC 2013
      • The Winter’s Tale – RSC 2021
      • The Winter’s Tale- Wanamaker
      • The Witch of Edmonton
      • There and Back Again – An Odyssey
      • Thérèse Raquin
      • This Happy Breed
      • This Is My Family
      • Timon of Athens
      • Timon of Athens – RSC
      • Titus Andronicus – RSC 2017
      • Titus Andronicus- Globe 2014
      • Totem
      • Travels With My Aunt (musical)
      • Travesties
      • Tristan and Yseult 2017
      • Troilus & Cressida RSC 2018
      • True West
      • Twelfth Night – Apollo 2012
      • Twelfth Night – Globe 2017
      • Twelfth Night – Globe, 2021
      • Twelfth Night – NT 2017
      • Twelfth Night – RSC 2017
      • Twelfth Night – Watermill
      • Twelfth Night – Young Vic
      • Twelfth Night RSC 2012
      • Twelfth Night- ETT 2014
      • Two Gentlemen of Verona – 2016
      • Two Gentlemen of Verona – RSC
      • Two Gentlemen of Verona- 2013
      • Uncle Vanya (Hare)
      • Uncle Vanya (McPherson)
      • Venice Preserved
      • Vice Versa
      • Volpone
      • Vulcan 7
      • Watership Down
      • Way Upstream
      • What The Butler Saw
      • While The Sun Shines
      • Wolf Hall
      • Woman in Mind
      • Women On The Verge of A Nervous Breakdown
      • wonder.land
      • Worst Wedding Ever
      • Woyzeck
      • Yerma (2017)
      • Young Chekhov Season
      • Young Marx
    • video
      • A Weekend Away, A Week By The Sea
        • Sections: Weekend Away / By the Sea
      • Dennis Cook: A history
      • Drama, dialogue and video
      • Teaching with video: techniques
      • Video: non-authentic
      • Video: on location
      • Video: Peter Viney Interview
      • Video: What happened?

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