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King John – Rose, 2016

King John
by William Shakespeare

Directed by Trevor Nunn
Set and costume design by Mark Friend

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Rose Theatre, Kingston-on-Thames
Saturday 14th May 2016

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L to R: Lisa Dillon, Jamie Ballard, Howard Charles, Maggie Steed

Jamie Ballard – King John
Howard Charles – Philip the Bastard, natural son of Richard I
Lisa Dillon – Lady Constance, widow of Duke of Brittany
Maggie Steed – Queen Eleanor, the Queen Mother, widow of Henry II

with

Ignatius Anthony – Duke of Austria / Lord Bigot, Earl of Norfolk
Joe Bannister – Lewis, Dauphin of France
Burt Caesar – Cardinal Pandulph, Papal legate
Tom Chapman- Robert Faulconbridge / Prince Henry, John’s son (later King Henry III) / friar
Elisabeth Hopper – Princess Blanche of Castile, John’s niece
Stephen Kennedy – Hubert, citizen of Angers
Dominic Mafham – Earl of Salisbury
Harry Marcus/ Sebastianan Croft – Prince Arthur, Constance’s son, John’s nephew
Chris Andrew Mellon – The Citizen of Angiers / Executioner
Dale Rapley – King Philip of France / Peter of Pomfret / Abbot
Miles Richardson – Earl of Pembroke
Carmen Rodriguez – Lady Faulconbridge, mother of Philip and Robert Faulconbridge, mistress of Richard I
David Shelley – Chatillion, French Ambassador to England  / Lord Melun / Executioner
Jon Tarcey – Messenger / James Gurney / friar

King John Rose prog

Trevor Nunn is following his Wars of The Roses season at The Rose Theatre, Kingston last year, with one of the remaining two Shakespeare plays he has never directed before, King John. It’s catch-up time for him, as this once largely ignored play has had recent major productions at the RSC (2014) and The Globe (2015). Why was it so ignored? At our school it could be as simple as having a character called “The Bastard.” Maybe we like our kings having numbers after their names, and John, like Stephen, never had a II or III, VI or VIII to follow.

Trevor Nunn has assembled a brilliant cast. Jamie Ballard (King John) and Lisa Dillon (Constance) are both actors we’d book a play for on their own, but Howard Charles (The Bastard) is a major one for us, as we are huge fans of The Musketeers TV series in which he plays Porthos.

For more on the plot. see the review of the 2015 Globe production.

The four principle actors feature on the publicity photos above, and King John is a play with four strong roles, and two of them female. Queen Elinor is Elinor of Aquitaine. Most European royalty are descended from her in one way or another and Shakespeare probably didn’t know enough to do her history full justice. She was married to the King of France, had two daughters, then had their marriage annulled. She instructed Henry Duke of Normandy, 11 years her junior, to marry her. He became Henry II of England. She had eight more children, including Richard the Lionheart and King John. After plotting with three of her sons against her husband, she spent 16 years in prison. She ruled England while Richard was off on the crusades. And at 77 she trotted off to Castile to collect Princess Blanche for marriage. On the way back through France, her grandson Prince Arthur, aged 15, besieged her in a castle and King John had to come and rescue her.

So Prince Arthur isn’t quite the poor innocent portrayed in this play, though as ever he’s seen as about eleven rather than fifteen / sixteen. He was the son of the other great female role, Constance. Constance was married to Geoffrey, Duke of Brittany, the son between Richard and John. Thus Arthur, as Geoffrey’s son had a greater right to the throne than his uncle, the younger brother. He was the French candidate for the throne.

The Bastard, or Philip Faulconbridge, had his name changed to Richard when John knighted him. In the play we assume that John promotes him as a blood relative, the illegitimate son of Richard, and a supporter precisely because he’s a bastard and not a rival for the crown. He might have considered that William the Conqueror’s other name was William the Bastard.

The play starts with the French ambassador demanding that Arhur be recognised as king. Then we have a minor squabble, Robert and Philip of Faulconbridge disputing inheritance, and John has to adjudicate.  When Queen Elinor realises that Philip must be Richard the Lionheart’s son, he’s offered a knighthood and court role, in exchange for letting his brother have the lands. The rest of the play has everyone disputing John’s inheritance. Let’s remember that in all the French / English divisions in the play, everyone would have spoken French and everyone had French titles and lands. Richard Coeur de lion though born in England, barely ever visited England in adult life, and John’s immediate claim was that he was the descendant who had spent most time in England.

We’re on the opening night, not even a “preview” but the first of the lot. Still with such an experienced cast and director, we relied on it being ready.

Trevor Nunn discusses his concept in the programme (I always want to read the director’s views). he points out that bits seem missing from the last third of the original text, and like “every other production in modern times” he fleshed it out with extracts from the earlier play The Troublesome Reign of King John, which Shakespeare adapted and rewrote for his company. Nunn sees the play as an ‘enquiry into the nature of political decision making’ and says:

The play is about not only the making and breaking of alliances, but about expedience, deceit, untruth, double talk, compromise and short term gain.

Howard Charles as Phillip Photo by Mark Douet_2

 

The Bastard (Howard Charles)

The casting of Howard Charles as The Bastard is central to the concept. Nunn describes the character as a young man who wants to be truthful, honourable and faithful … Shakespeare gives him confrontational soliloquies to express his contempt for political maneouvering. Howard Charles is powerfully built, and a powerful stage presence and voice too. For us, he carries over character from Porthos, aided by the dusty leather jerkin. This is a Bastard you’d want on your side, brave, strong, stalwart; just the kind of bloke a weak vacillating king with long wispy blonde hair would want to stand and confront his enemies. It’s not ever thus with the Bastard. In fact, the two major recent productions cast Pippa Nixon (RSC) and Alex Waldmann (Globe) as The Bastard, so both quite slight. Their power has to rest on persuasion, and they were, in modern English, a bit of a bastard too. Alex Waldmann’s Bastard couldn’t resist a sit on the vacant throne. This one wouldn’t dream of it. Waldmann was also King John in the RSC production. Nunn cast Waldmann as Henry VI last year, so must know the very different interpretation. Nunn has good textual support for his version. This is a man who can fight the powerful Duke of Austria, who is the man who imprisoned the Lionheart and dresses in a lion skin to show it. The Bastard can beat him and  decapitate him. Incidentally, the Austrian head tossing by Howard Charles was phenomenal, and I wonder if he can throw it that far that accurately every time.

The set is from Trevor Nunn’s The Wars of The Roses in 2015 with multiple stairs and levels and platforms. I wondered about that, because they really only use the centre middle platform for the besieged city of Angier’s citizen, then Prince Arthur’s fatal tumble. The side bits were not employed, nor was the higher level. As this was only our second visit to The Rose, I thought it might be a permanent set and asked, but no, it is just The Wars of The Roses and this. They employed the same swirling lights projected down on the stage for transitions.

They use video camera and projection screens. That’s not unusual, but not quite like this. In the National Theatre’s modern dress “West Wing” Hamlet, TV cameramen naturally turned up to film King Claudius. In the Old Vic’s Richard III, Kevin Spacey was filmed wheedling in tight close up by an unseen backstage camera. The same backstage device was used last year in the Young Vic’s Macbeth. But here, a camera operator walks centre and stands and films some speeches and kingly entrances, which are then projected in close up, and black and white on two screens. I don’t object on authenticity grounds, though I’d be a bit annoyed if I was sitting behind his filming position, and wondered about a fixed camera off the lower gallery instead. They then use the screens to project odd bits of castle window or wall or parapet, sometimes B&W, sometimes colour, then they do the big battles with old black and white footage, and use the screen for Arthur’s fall (very effective it was there too). OK, it didn’t irritate me, and in some bits … the battles, the fall, I think it added. But I still ask why? It’s not a rock concert in Wembley Stadium. You can see perfectly well in this theatre anyway. They weren’t rock concert megascreens either, more like the largest size of TV.

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Queen Elinor (Maggie Steed) and King John (Jamie Ballard)

The first half was superb. Jamie Ballard’s King John, had Queen Elinor constantly looming majestically at his shoulder, prompting, pushing, advising, indicating what he should do. She was still running the show.  After the first scene, a fine chain mail headdress accentuates her military role. The long Siege of Angiers has the English and French armies besieging the city, which is understandably reluctant to open its gates. It will happily admit the English King, but wishes to know whether that’s King John, who has the crown on his head, or Prince Arthur, who is supported by the French. The outstanding scene in the whole production is when Constance, Arthur’s mother, goes for the grand Queen Elinor in a spitfire tirade. Elinor is Arthur’s grandmother, taller, has majesty and the weight of years of power, Constance is the she-wolf protecting her cub. Marvellous stuff from Lisa Dillon and Maggie Steed.

King John at Rose Theatre Kingston_  Photo by Mark Douet _80A9462

Negotiations: King of France seated left, King John seated right

I was persuaded too by the whole Angiers Franco-British negotiations, with John and King Philip of France (Dale Rapley) on chairs at the front of the stage close together, with their advisors gathered tightly around them … Constance, Arthur, the Dauphin, the Duke of Austria and Mellun for France; Queen Elinor, the Bastard and Earls of Salisbury and Pembroke for England. The pawn in the game is Blanche of Castille (King John’s niece, played by Elisabeth Hopper), blonde, beautiful and wordless in shimmering white waiting to be traded in marriage to the Dauphin (Joe Bannister). The Duke of Austria (Ignatius Anthony) was a malevolent presence at King Philip’s shoulder, constantly trading glares with the Bastard. This was done so well.

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L to R; Duke of Austria, The Dauphin, Blanche of Castile., King John, Queen Elinor

The interval came after ninety minutes. It hadn’t felt long at all, time had flown, and I came out thinking “five stars” and was surprised to find my companion had loathed the costumes, interpreting the courtly silks as swathes of over-bright nylon (correctly, I assume). She was particularly annoyed that when Constance kicked out and lifted her skirts in fury, she revealed black sheer tights and white ballet shoes. Whatever hose they had in 1200, it was opaque (with white being the default Globe / RSC choice). There is no attempt at authentic practices obviously, but they claim to have studied then interpreted 13th century garb and the black tights were incongruous. I wondered if it was deliberate. My companion said the Bastard looked way the best because he looked as if he’d brought his own costume along from The Musketeers (to be fair, the Earl of Salisbury was similar).

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Constance (Lisa Dillon) and Prince Arthur (Sebastian Croft)  – one of the two Prince Arthurs

The most frequent split of Shakespeare plays gives a 90 (as here) to 100 minute first part, followed by around 60 to 70 minutes second part. This second part was a full 90 minutes again. I find that unbalanced in almost any play. It’s a full three hours without the interval. I never recorded the length, but the Globe version seemed way faster and shorter (even on Globe seats). The trouble is the intrinsic “Duchess of Malfi effect” that is killing off or losing the most interesting characters way before the end, in this case Constance, Queen Elinor and King Philip. All three are greatly missed. The second part has Hubert, the intended executioner of Prince Arthur … in fact he only needed to blind him with red hot irons (and in the historical account, castrate him) so as to render him an impossible candidate for king. Hubert (Stephen Kennedy), with a lurid birthmark or burn over half his face is an important character, and he really shows his troubled mind over the deed, which he declines to do). He has an Ulster accent, one of only two regional accents in the entire play, the other being the friar, Pomfret, with Northern. Hubert is a sympathetic character, but Ulster and Glasgow accents are used too often to show a brutal character.

The good bits in part two are the imprisonment, intended torture of Arthur, Arthur’s death, then John’s poisoning and subsequent death. Jamie Ballard does great dying. He does great stuff all the way though, going from sneering and comically showing “ooh! terror” at excommunication, to displaying sudden apoplectic fury. All very good. The trouble is we have interminable and tedious negotiations featuring the three earls, the Dauphin and the papal envoy, Pandolf.  No Bastard or King in view either. Nothing wrong with the acting in any of it. Joe Bannister’s Dauphin is first-rate, and Dominic Maham’s Salisbury’s vacillation between France and England is conveyed superbly too. The interest it has been assumed, is contemporary parallels: Brexit / An isolated England; A European superstate in the EU / the Papacy as a pan-European authority; Are the French and Germans trying to dictate how we run the country? Political negotiation and double-dealings. The trouble is that for both us, the real interest is the characters. Constance v Queen Elinor, then the delicious irony. Everyone turns against John because they think he’s murdered Arthur, but he is innocent, though only because Hubert disobeyed his orders. Then Arthur falls trying to escape, dies, and it all gets pinned on John. That’s the fascinating tale for us, accentuated by choosing such excellent actors for the roles. The political shenanigans, for us, are merely the frame, NOT the picture. So, for both of us it was that old history play issue when multiple nobles squabble, it’s not very interesting. The surprise is that Trevor Nunn made sense of Henry VI, probably Shakespeare’s worst play, by vigorous cutting. Not here. We both found the second half overall tedious, and definitely crying out for 15 to 20 minutes of cutting.

(later note) Dominic Cavendish’s Telegraph review was exactly opposite – He found the first half ‘naff’ and thought the second half saved it.

At the end, they only took a single curtain call. They could easily have taken more. Odd. But it was getting late, and having a two and a quarter hour drive home, I didn’t mind.

So at half time, I was running at five stars. The second half inclined me to two.

Overall: ***

PROGRAMME

I like the director interview, plus the exploration of how Shakespeare managed to write a play about King John without mentioning the Magna Carta. Hidden signals in the text for political reasons? Good. Of course, he also failed to mention losing the crown jewels whilst crossing the Wash (giving rise to 1066 and All That jokes) and the “surfeit of lampreys” which killed him is switched to a poisoning.

LINKS TO REVIEWS ON THIS SITE:

KING JOHN

  • King John, Globe 2015
  • King John, Rose Kingston 2016
  • King John, RSC 2019

 

TREVOR NUNN
Henry VI, The Rose
Edward IV, The Rose,
Richard III, The Rose

JAMIE BALLARD
Measure for Measure, RSC 2012 (Angelo)
The Merchant of Venice, The RSC, 2015 (Antonio)
King John, Rose, Kingston (King John)
Macbeth, Trafalgar Studios, 2013 (MacDuff)
The White Devil, Wanamaker Playhouse 2017 (Bracciano)

LISA DILLON
The Roaring Girl by Dekker & Middleton, RSC 2014 (Moll Cutpurse)
The Taming Of The Shrew, RSC 2012 (Kate)
Birthday by Joe Penhall
Love’s Labour’s Lost– RSC 2016 revival, at Chichester
Much Ado About Nothing – RSC 2016, at Chichester,

HOWARD CHARLES
Macbeth RSC 2011 (Malcolm)

MAGGIE STEED
The Constant Wife, Salisbury, 2011
Richard III, Trafalgar Studios, 2014
School for Scandal, Bath, 2012

JOE BANNISTER
The Roaring Girl, RSC 2014 (Sebastian)
As You Like It, National 2014 (Orlando)

MILES RICHARDSON
Volpone, RSC 2015

DALE RAPLEY
Women on The Edge of A Nervous Breakdown, 2015

 

 

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        • 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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