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Cymbeline – Wanamaker

Cymbeline
by William Shakespeare

Directed by Sam Yates

Cymbeline prog

Globe Theatre production
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse

Saturday 5th December 2015, 14.30

CAST:
Emily Barber- Innogen, daughter of King Cymbeline
Calum Callaghan – Cloten, stepson of King Cymbeline
Trevor Fox – Pisano, servant to Posthumus
Darren Kuppan – Arviragus, lost son of King Cymbeline, known as Cadwal
Christopher Logan – Cornelius, a doctor. Gentleman of the court. Ghost. Roman
Joseph Marcell- King Cymbeline
Pauline McLynn – the Queen, stepmother to Innogen
Eugene O’Hare – Iachimo, an Italian nobleman
Brendan O’Hea- Belarius, banished 20 years ago
Jonjo O’Neill – Posthumus, husband of Innogen
Dharmesh Patel – Soothsayer, Philario
Tika Peucelle- Mother, Helen
Paul Rider- Caius Lucius, Roman ambassador and general
Sid Sagar – Guiderius, lost son of King Cymbeline, known as Polydore

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Sam Wanamaker Playhouse

When we were told we had to read the Complete Works in late 60s drama courses, there were a few you could speed-read or tacitly ignore: Timon of Athens, Henry VIII, Pericles, Cymbeline. The last two have been elevated since, particularly in the Wanamaker 2015-2016 season where they’re doing four late plays suitable for the Blackfriars private theatre in chronological order of writing. Cymbeline comes second, and is running alongside Pericles (see link). Cymbeline was probably the first play Shakespeare wrote specifically for the indoor private theatre after he had already experienced productions in the setting.

We had been at the National Theatre the night before to see a cast of 36 with hugely complex stage machinery doing As You like It, and we’d agreed it was over-produced. The Sam Wanamaker Playhouse varies between “zero set” and a few interesting additions as in the sails and ropes and planks in Pericles. Cymbeline was just the stage, plus one bed, one chest. No chairs, no thrones. Zero. It was a major contrast, we had hoped for  a refreshing lack of stuff with fourteen instead of thirty-six actors, but our conclusion was that it was really under-produced. Too sparse.

Entrances were square through the middle in both directions until they got to the Welsh hills over Milford Haven,when the two lost princes tended to enter through the audience at the sides. After the racing around at the RSC and National, it felt stolid and square.

It’s an odd and convoluted play, twinned with King Lear in taking place in a pre-Saxon, and even pre-Roman Britain. The semi-mythical King Cymbeline is ruling Britain 50 years after Julius Caesar, and it is a client kingdom paying tribute to Rome. But it’s just reneged on the debt and declined the annual instalment. What it means here is dull costumes (to add to no furniture), more Jacobean than ancient Briton, though the Cambrian lads are in Dark Ages kilted drag, but they probably wore that in Pembrokeshire in 1610 anyway. When the Romans invade we get the red and gold clanking armour we know and love.

The audience going out seemed happy and impressed. The Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, lit by candles, intimate, so close to the actors, is never going to be a disappointing occasion, though I guess in the third season, the magic of novelty is wearing off for regulars. It is very early in the run, though at full ticket prices, one should not have to make ‘preview concessions’ on a critique.

Our first issue was accents. It’s accent blind (and colour blind) in strong contrast to say Trevor Nunn’s 2015 revival of the Wars of The Roses which was criticised for not being colour and accent blind.

I thought that here accent-blindness, i.e. actors using their natural accents, was a total mess. Let’s start with Jonjo O’Neill, His natural Northern Irish accent worked perfectly when he played Richard III at the RSC a few years ago. Fine. Here he’s Posthumus, though they keep referring to him by his father’s name Leonatus too. OK, he’s married to Imogen (according to the Penguin Shakespeare edition) or Innogen according to the Wanamaker programme. I’m going to call her Imogen because the autochecker accepts that without lots of fussing and underlining. Her dad, King Cymbeline has Posthumus banished for daring to get off with his daughter. So he can be an outsider. No accent issue.

But then Posthumus trots off to Rome, where he gets in dispute with Iachimo, a Roman nobleman. Iachimo is played by Eugene O’Hare, and his accent drifts in and out of Northern Irish; Ulster vowel sounds abound, but he seems to be attempting RP, though at points I wondered if a bit of Italian was in there. O’Hare was born in Northern Ireland, and it must be doubly difficult playing against a fellow Northern Irishman. As they are supposed to be different nationalities in the play, and enemies, it’s odd to have them sharing an accent, while there’s RP from those around them. I thought O’Hare was trying to do RP but picking up accent drift from O’Neill. It marred his fine performance.

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The Queen (Pauline McLynn) believes the Juilet potion is a deadly poison

Christopher Logan, one of the great current comic actors, is seriously under-employed in this production as Cornelius the doctor … plus a gentleman, a Roman soldier, a ghost and other odds and bits. Incidentally, Logan in Roman costume is intrinsically funny. Just as Eric Morecambe or Tommy Cooper or Frankie Howard were. It’s a gift. Though it’s not a funny part here. For most of these roles Logan’s using his normal RP, but perhaps they want to distinguish his different roles, so he’s Irish as the doctor with the Juliet potion … uh, William! You used that one before. The Queen believes it’s a deadly poison. But the doctor has fooled her: it will send Imogen / Innogen into such a sleep that everyone will think she’s dead. Logan does Irish well, that’s not the issue. But now we have three Irish accents including bitter enemies, and you start trying to work out why. Then in the second half Jupiter descends on wires in a billowing white dress (this Jupiter is female) and the father, or rather mother, of the gods is Irish too (though it could be Gaelic speaker Scots … I wasn’t 100% sure). I suspect that in doubling her with the queen, they decided an accent would separate the roles. But in the circumstances, I’d have said “Anything else but …”

Pisanio, the loyal servant of Posthumus has a strong Geordie accent, and a lovely accent it is. But it stands right out. Would it not have been good to have both Posthumus and Pisanio from Ulster? Or both from Newcastle? Is it only me who looks for these connections? A life spent recording accents means I can’t be accent blind when it comes to connections. Anyway, the accents really irritated me. I’m amazed there’s a programme credit for “Voice and Dialect” coach!

We can guess from the number of times Shakespeare used Welshmen in plays that he had a good comic Welsh actor in his company. Belarius (Brendan O’Hea) is living in a Welsh cave and referred to as a Cambrian and wearing a Celtic kilt. If you’re going to spray accents all over the place, why not give him a Welsh one?

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Cymbeline (Joseph Marcell)

They weren’t quite colour blind either. King Cymbeline is Afro-Caribbean. His two lost sons, kidnapped by Belarius 20 years earlier when he was banished are (or look) light brown. That figures. But his daughter, Imogen, is white. The same was true of As You Like It the night before where Duke Frederick was black, but his brother and daughter white. I’m moving towards Trevor Nunn on the whole issue when it comes to characters who are related to each other.

The play has one of the longest denouement scenes in the canon. It was a good thirty minutes, working out that Posthumus wasn’t dead, that the two lost princes, Guiderius and Arviragus are actually Belarius’s supposed sons, Cadwal and Polydore. (The first sharing his name with a mountain, the second with a record label.) Then they had to work out the role of the Juliet potion, Iachimo’s treacherous lying deeds, the Queen’s evil plots … she’s dead by now, the letter Pisanio didn’t deliver, explain why Cadwall and Polydore were so strangely attracted to Imogen dressed as a boy (they didn’t know she was female and their sister, they just “loved him” at first sight), let off Lucius Cassius the Roman commander … it goes on and on. Thirty minutes of explaining and forgiving. In there are a lot of lines that William Shakespeare never intended as funny which drew a lot of laughter on stage today. ‘I’m angry!’ got roars for understatement, while Cymbeline saying of the queen, ‘Oh, she was naughty!’ brought the house down. That was deliberate here … the Penguin text is “Oh, she was naught.’ which the textual note explains as ‘wicked’ … we know that ‘naughty’ in 1610 is our evil or wicked. But I hesitate to add that without the “y” it could also mean ‘She was nothing.’ Anyway, ‘You naughty man!’ has too many echoes of Dick Emery in drag.

There were other bits later on that drew laughs, and I wondered how much they were lampooning the text. For example, there is a dream sequence where Posthumus, now unfetchingly attired in grey long johns is visited by ghosts. That’s when Jupiter descends. As she ascends back up, the ghosts chorus like chastised schoolkids, ‘Sorry, Jupiter.’ The actual text is ‘Thanks, Jupiter.’ Again,’Sorry, Jupiter’ got the laughs.

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Imogen (Emily Barber) with Iachimo (Eugene O’Hare)

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The big scene in the first half is where Iachimo, having failed to seduce the faithful Imogen asks her to store some plate for the Roman emperor in her bedroom, as you do. The plate is in a large chest, and it’s a creepy scene as of course he is hidden in the chest, creeps out while she’s asleep, notes the room decorations, steals her bracelet and peeps down her cleavage. He later convinces Posthumus he has slept with her by describing the mole on the underside of her breast. Well, he would have needed a light and a periscope, but it is a very creepy scene. It failed to creep.

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Cloten (Calum Callaghan) with a gentleman (Christopher Logan)

At halftime we thought the production extremely dull. It did liven up in the second half, mainly because we started to get laughs … but I felt we were laughing AT the play as it is written, rather than WITH the play. For example, one of the two big scenes:

Cloten, the son of Imogen’s evil stepmother, the queen, is intent on raping Imogen and sets off to Wales to do so. He dresses up in Posthumus’s clothes, perhaps to add spice to the ravaging.

He meets the Lost Boys (sorry …seasonal slip) and fights Polydore (Guiderius), and it’s a good stage fight too. But then as Polydore gains the upper hand as the fight exits through the central doors, Cloten squeaks “Sorry!’  Big laugh. Was it appropriate? This scene merges with the Lost Boys discovering the corpse of Imogen, who has taken the Juliet Potion thinking it was some kind of tonic. She wasn’t feeling well,  possibly as a result of dressing up as a boy for her travels, as Shakespearean heroines do, so thought the equivalent of echinacia, honey and lemon might help perhaps. The lads lay the headless body of Cloten, dressed in Posthumus’s gear next to her. Polydore thought he might as well decapitate him and they intended to perform a pleasant rustic joint funeral the next day. Imogen wakes and thinks it’s Posthumus’s body. One of the two major moments of the play. It got a lot of laughs. It didn’t help that the stuffed body had one of the legs bend the wrong way at the knee at one point, but it was mainly her discovering it was headless. I’m sure the author never thought of that as a laugh. The play is praised for eroticism, horror and humour. The horror was played for laughs. The eroticism wasn’t there.

Our overall impression was that it failed to convince. Yes, it’s the era when comedy and tragedy were mixed to effect, but while we laughed, I’m not sure it was where you should have the laughs. Particularly in the denouement scene, I felt the guffaws were directed at Shakespeare’s plot clumsiness.

We both said “Two stars” at the end. It’s the eighth or ninth Wanamaker production we’ve seen, and we thought the weakest of them all. Poor costume and total lack of design didn’t help. The incidental instrumental music was very impressive. The one song wasn’t really. . I will repeat there was a happy buzz going out and lots of applause, as there should be for the efforts of a small cast and we applauded hard too. Maybe it’s the play. The RSC are doing it in 2016 and we have tickets. And it goes to The Globe, retitled Imogen.

TWO STARS **

PROGRAMME

Five stars as usual

FLIERS

Why have they a photo of a man in 18th century costume as the flier? Absolutely no connection to the play. It might be from Farinelli & The King.

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Headlong (Bottom, Pyramus)
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Measure for Measure, Globe
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Knight of The Burning Pestle, Globe.
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      • 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 …
      • A Fishy Story
      • A Post-Brexit Vision
      • Agatha Christie: Deduction in a dell’arte mask
      • Allergies … and lawyers
      • 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
      • Cars are cars
      • Chorizo is Vile
      • Christmas Markets
      • 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
      • Encounter: Saul Bellow
      • Fawlty Towers and Tall Poppies
      • Flags and anthems
      • Free Broadband in Every Packet!
      • Guilt and innocence
      • Howards End is a blur
      • If your face fits … continuous assessment
      • In the April Garden …
      • In The Days of Covid-21
      • In the May Garden
      • Jangle Bells: shopping for Christmas
      • Land Of My Mother’s
      • London-centric theatre
      • 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
      • 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 Shakespeare Cod-Piece
      • The Stitch Up
      • View From The Queue
      • What happened to car CD players?
    • 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
      • 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
      • Boudica
      • Bring Up The Bodies
      • Broken
      • Candida
      • Cardenio
      • Carmen Disruption
      • Caroline or Change
      • Comedy of Errors – Globe
      • Comedy of Errors NT 2012
      • Comedy of Errors RSC ’12
      • Communicating Doors
      • Comus
      • Copenhagen
      • Coriolanus – NT Live
      • Coriolanus – RSC
      • 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
      • 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 2107
      • 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: Three plays
      • Hobson’s Choice
      • Hogarth’s Progress
      • 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
      • Jeeves and Wooster
      • Jerusalem
      • Jerusalem – 2018
      • 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
      • 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
      • Much Ado About Nothing – Globe 2014
      • Much Ado About Nothing – Globe 2017
      • 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- Wyndhams 2011
      • 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
      • Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour
      • 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
      • 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 – 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- Globe 2015
      • Romeo and Juliet: Tobacco Factory
      • Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
      • Ross
      • Rules for Living
      • Salomé – RSC
      • School nativities
      • Secondary Cause of Death
      • Separate Tables
      • Shakespeare in Love
      • She Stoops To Conquer
      • Skylight
      • Slava’s Snowshow
      • Snow in Midsummer
      • Spring Awakening
      • Stepping Out
      • Strife
      • Sweet Bird of Youth
      • Switzerland
      • Tamburlaine
      • Tangomotion
      • Tartuffe- RSC
      • The Alchemist – RSC
      • The Argument
      • The Beauty Queen of Leenane
      • 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
      • The Deep Blue Sea – 2019
      • The Deep Blue Sea-NT live, 2016
      • The Dresser
      • The Duchess of Malfi – 2012
      • The Duchess of Malfi – 2014
      • The Duchess of Malfi – RSC 2108
      • The Entertainer
      • 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 Nightingales
      • The Norman Conquests
        • Living Together
        • Round & Round The Garden
        • Table Manners
      • The Odyssey
      • The Painkiller (2016)
      • The Play That Goes Wrong
      • 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 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 Tempest RSC 2012
      • The Tempest RSC 2016
      • The Tempest- Wanamaker
      • The Truth
      • The Two Noble Kinsmen- 2018
      • The Two Noble Kinsmen- RSC
      • 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- 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 – 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
      • Venice Preserved
      • Vice Versa
      • Volpone
      • Vulcan 7
      • Watership Down
      • Way Upstream
      • What The Butler Saw
      • While The Sun Shines
      • Wolf Hall
      • 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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