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The Winter’s Tale – Globe 2018

The Winter’s Tale
By William Shakespeare

Directed by Blanche McIntyre
Designed by James Perkins
Composer Stephen Warbeck

Shakespeare’s Globe
Saturday 18thAugust 2018

CAST
Annette Badland– Old Shepherd / Archidamus / Judge
Zora Bishop– Emilia / Cleomenes / Mopsa
Adrian Bower – Camillo
Priyanga Burford – Hermione
Becci Gemmell – Autolycus
Will Keen – Leontes
Norah Lopez-Holden– Perdita
Luke MacGregor– Florizel
Jordan Metcalfe– Young Shepherd
Oliver Ryan– Polixenes
Sirine Saba- Paulina
Howard Ward– Antigonus
Rose Wardlaw– Mamillius/Time / Dion / Dorcas

MUSIC
Robert Millett – MD, percussion
Matt Bacon – guitar/bouzouki / mandolin
Jon Banks – accordion
Sophie Barber – violin
Sophie Creaner – bass clarinet / clarinet/ saxophone

WintersTale stage

Stage for “The Winter’sTale.” Set added – the gold coloured grid.

The Globe can’t be superstitious. Casts of thirteen for Othello yesterday and The Winter’s Tale today. Compares to twenty the last time the RSC did it. As yesterday, a stage this big in a theatre this size could and should invite more actors to have a chance. When you don’t, as here, work seems to take place with actors communicating over yawning voids. Gender meddling is a given … the Old Shepherd and Autolycus are now female. I can’t see that makes much difference, neither is heavily gender-marked. A female shepherd finding a baby and caring for it is logical. The judge also became female, somewhat diluting the male cruelty to Hermione theme. Having a girl as the young prince, Mamillius, makes sense. The tradition is that in the original in 1611, Mamillius and Perdita were played by the same boy actor. Hence Leontes sees the resemblance. Those connecting the themes to biography point out that Leontes, like Shakespeare himself, faces the death of a beloved son, Hamnet, but then has a beloved daughter. It would work even better with both parts played by the same girl actor, given that Perdita is the larger role,  but they missed that chance, and I don’t think I have seen it done. Once you think about it, it makes as much sense as pairing Theseus and Oberon.

The Globe are pairing Shakespeare’s two chief “jealousy” plays in running Othello and The Winter’s Tale at the same time. The programme “Welcome” by Michelle Terry says they are following the “character of Emilia through Shakespeare’s canon” and they have a new play called Emilia in the season. There happen to be women in both plays called Emilia. One is Iago’s wife, one is Hermione’s lady in waiting. I guess both attend to a put-upon lead female character, and then defend them in speech. You wouldn’t base a season choice on that. Emilia here is a tiny part.

The Winter’s Tale is the definitive problem play, the problem being that the first part in Sicilia is a tragedy and the second in Bohemia is a pastoral comedy and they intrinsically are very hard to fit together.  I’ve seen a good few productions over the years, and many were not great. Basically, Leontes is an insanely jealous nutter yet receives no comeuppance at the close. The man is a paranoid bastard. He suspects his wife, Hermione, of screwing his best friend Polixenes and that Polixenes has fathered the imminent baby. Hermione apparently dies in shock at the false accusation coupled with the death of their son., So Leontes has their little baby girl abandoned to the wild animals on a bear-filled beach in Bohemia, which has no sea coast. The task is entrusted to Antigonus who gets eaten by a bear. Yes, I didn’t associate bears and beaches either, till I took the “float plane adventure” from Vancouver to an isolated mountain lake in a 1950s plane with a broken altimeter. The pilot had a picnic basket and a shotgun. There was a wooden picnic table on the beach surrounded by bear prints. Mind you, once the black flies had descended on our party, death by bear attack would have been a welcome relief. And so you can have a beach in a landlocked country, but a lot of people don’t know that, including Shakespeare himself. Fortunately shepherds find the abandoned child, name her Perdita and she grows up with them as a lovely unspoilt rural lass (usually afflicted with a Mummerset accent, though not here) for Polixenes’ gap year son, Florizel, to fall in love with. Sixteen years have passed.

The programme interview with director Blanche McIntyre is uninviting:

It seems very important that we do not do the classic thing of a flirty moment between Polixenes and Hermione, partly because that suggests she brings it on herself. To imply that a woman is responsible for a man’s breakdown seems to me politically awkward and probably not true, or helpful. Blanche McIntyre

Oh, dear. Great flirty moments in The Winter’s Tale? My favourite was simply having Hermione and Polixenes sharing a spliff, getting stoned and giggling at the RSC.  Given her advanced pregnancy, that’s definitely poor Elf & Safe Tea, but surely the point is Hermione is allowed to smile and joke with an old family friend without arousing suspicion from Leontes. The Branagh production carried that off well too. And she does just that here.

They have decided that Sicilia is sort of costumed, and Bohemia is here and now. There is a programme essay on King Roger II of Sicily when it was multiculturally Arab, Byzantine Greek, Saracen and Italian in the 12th century. Fascinating, and dictating costume, but  Shakespeare never had that in mind. He simply used Robert Greene’s source material, and reversed Sicily and Bohemia. The result here is weird and vastly over-influenced by the thought of those cultural combinations. Yes, Shakespeare plays take anachronism easily. Yes, Cheek by Jowl did one of the best versions I have seen in modern dress last year. The production is seriously hampered by abysmal costume.

Will Keen as Leontes – you can’t see the gold pantaloons and slippers

Will Keen is dressed as Aladdin after the genii gave him the palace and fine clothes, or maybe the final Disney wedding scene in white and gold. Archidamus, a Lord of Bohemia (unlisted in the programme) has modern red floral Primark 70% off sale trousers. Then Camillo is wearing a light purple dressing gown. Mamillus has stepped out of the Bayeux tapestry with Norman tunic, headband and hair. Paulina has a cloak in an early 60s curtain material design. The oracles are in Byzantine costume. It could not look worse. We’ll come to Bohemia later … the modern dress is no better.

Pailina (Sirine Saba)

The beginning acts of the play naturally fall on to Leontes speaking much of the time. Will Keen gives an extraordinarily vital performance, improved when he loses Aladdin’s jacket and sash so just white shirt (and we can get past the gold pantaloons). He quivers, veins standing out in his neck visibly, rages, shakes with emotion. A superb full on Leontes, matched by Priyanga Burford’s fine, dignified but sweet Hermione. It’s all talk, true, but then Sirine Saba comes on as a feisty, judgmental Paulina, the only one unafraid of him. She’s like a hurricane force, and for me will remain the definitive Paulina, the best I’ve seen. Incidentally, using Paulina as “Time” to open Part 2, which Judi Dench did in the 2015 Branagh production, is an excellent idea. They didn’t do it here.

So we have three great performances lighting up an otherwise static first part of the play. Nothing was done to add to it … usually there’s a colourful reception or party for Polixenes, or stately goings on. The six musicians were seriously underused throughout the play.

Priyanga Burford as Hermione, and Oliver Ryan as Polixenes

OK, I thought. We are stripping it back to the plain actors’ performances,as Cheek by Jowl did. Shame about the costume here, but we are focussing on three fine versions of Leontes, Hermione and Paulina. Polixenes (Oliver Ryan) was hampered by the incongruous white suit, and our reaction was odd. Oliver Ryan was in the RSC Dr Faustus at the Swan Theatre in 2016. I saw it twice, hoping to see the nightly role swop with Sandy Grierson at the flip of a coin show him as Faustus, but he was Mephistophilis both times. His accent and intonation shone in the Swan, but in the lofty spaces of the Globe we both found him hard to understand. The three other principles in those early scenes were crystal clear too, which might have thrown it into contrast.

The judging scene is a highlight. Not only excellent acting in the major roles, but with excellent background acting in the minor roles around. At this point they’re going well.

judge

The judgment scene: Annette Badland as judge, Priyanga Burford as Hermione, Sirine Saba as Paulina

Then Antigonus (Howard Ward) is dispatched with the baby. Howard Ward’s several roles were all excellent too. I’ve seen bad “exits pursued by bears.” OK, to see a really good one you’d have to go back to 1611, and remember that a neighboring street is Bear Garden, and a building near the Globe is The Bear Pit. Shakespeare used a real bear. There were trained dancing bears all over London.  This 2018 bear might not be quite the worst. That was at (I think) The Nuffield Southampton, 30 years ago. A toy Antigonus was pulled along a track high up pursued by a toy bear.  This tries hard to match it. We have a photo of bear with a triangular cut bottom edge and bits of tape on it. It falls as a banner. Then a section of the gold painted grid erected for this play falls flat in the stage. You know if you have a frame like that fall, you do the full Buster Keaton and have someone standing there who it misses, leaving them standing in a hole or space. They didn’t. Add feeble music.

The shepherds arrive in pink sou’westers, and the chosen rural accent is that well-known pastoral one, Brummie.

Into the second half, and we forgave the bear in the interval, by praising Leontes and Paulina to the skies, and were looking forward to Bohemia. And again the cast were fine in their roles and delivery. BUT …  No magic, no color, no fun at all. We know Shakespeare had been inspired by a Fletcher pastoral scene that fell flat a season earlier, and knew that Bohemia needed dance, music. Lots of it. We had very little. When they did the dance sequence, they all crowded into the inner stage with two violinists and did free rock festival prancing  crammed together. No choreography, yet the Globe’s stage is made for major dance events.

Florizel (Luke McGregor) and Perdita (Norah Lpoez-Holden)

The modern costume interfered here, because while the girls (Rose Wardlaw and Zora Bishop) looked funny, they were not attired to jump up and down to two mild bits of pastoral folky violin. Cheek by Jowl did the full disco scene with music and mics, but of course that kind of music has gone from the Globe with Emma Rice, but it’s exactly what a modern dress version required. OK, the Autolycus (Becci Gemmell) pick-pocket bit was good. They made a bit of an effort when she re-emerged with a peddler’s stall with T shirts and sunglasses pushed through the pit. Having 7″ singles as her “ballads” was great, but they were in white card sleeves. Far better to have used colourful 60s company sleeves … and you can buy bright new reproduction ones.  I thought Rose Wardlaw and Zora Bishop shone in reactive acting in the Bohemia scenes. Perdita got a very good laugh commenting on the disguised Polixenes as “men of middle age.” But overall, Bohemia fell flat.

After they get back to Sicily,the production looks up considerably. The all black costumes for Leontes and Paulina help greatly. First decent costumes so far and they don’t clash with the Bohemian arrivals in modern dress. Also, we are SO pleased to see Leontes and Paulina back on stage after boring Bohemia. The newly-ennobled sheperd(ess) and son got the full pantomime dame pantomime finale gold Elizabethan costumes.

Then the statue scene was the best thing in the entire production. Hermione struck quite a difficult stance and held it.  When we got close to Paulina invoking her to walk, a wind machine (Shakespeare probably had Burbage lie on the floor and blow hard) ruffled her skirts while she remained immobile. Magical, as the author intended. Paulina’s near panic about Leontes noticing the wrinkles, then not touching the hand because the paint is not dry, nor kissing the lips because the oils in the paint will stain you were performed to perfection. Ah, on which I have to quote the Guardian review. This is the paper I turn to first for theatre reviews, expecting Michael Billington. But it was Arif Akbar instead:

When Hermione’s statue is unveiled and miraculously comes back to life, her quivering invites us to consider the possibility that Hermione might have been in hiding all along and that her apparent resurrection is a ploy to fool Leontes. Arif Akbar 28 June 2018

It’s worth going to the Guardian review to read the comments below:

It’s not a possibility. She was and it is. That’s what happens in the play. mazeltov

I know, it just stumps you when a professional critic thinks what’s transparently said in a play is actually a result of her own subtextual sleuthing. Next we’ll have Akbar rushing from a revival of Hamlet hollering “Stop the press!” because she’s unearthed the long-buried secret that Claudius killed the king. Cocktailsatsix

It is obvious that this reviewer does not know the play; I’ve taught it many times and this review does not make sense. My A level students would be screaming in disbelief. kickstart1

Another quotes the play:

Rogero: “I thought she had some great matter there in hand, for she [Paulina] hath privately twice or thrice a day, ever since the death of Hermione, visited that removed house”

Exactly.

The only time in the whole play where we got that “Wow!” Globe exuberance effect was the encore. They needed that earlier in Bohemia.

The Globe “Wow!” factor. But you have to wait 2 hours 55 minutes to get it. Jordan Metcalfe as the Shepherd / Clown in the centre

MUSIC

The poor musicians sat woefully under-used and did the odd dribbling bit of dramatic backing. Percussion was marching band bass drums, hardly sophisticated instruments for a skilled percussionist. The dance scene in Bohemia was just two feeble violins, unexciting and generic. Yet any modern folk concert will have really exciting instrumentals or “tunes” as they call them done by fiddlers.

Designers at the Globe appear to be merely a union regulation with no power in 2018. Under Michelle Terry, they’re not actually allowed to design anything. A football analogy comes to mind … I think of the North-East of England and football. Great clubs, still huge audiences every week. Some fabulous players, but year after year, inexorably slipping into relegation fights. They change their playing strip, abandoning the one the fans know and love. They bring in their old star player as the new manager to revive their fortunes and take them back to her glory days there. We used to look at plays the RSC were doing in the same year as the Globe with anticipation. Which would be better this year? Well, in 2018 the RSC has motored out of sight, there is no competition. The Globe, like those North-East teams, will always draw huge crowds. it’s a tourist attraction. This year has been a poor one so far.

Overall?

It’s hard. The actors run mainly at 4 star to 5 star, which I guess has to include the director’s stage direction work. Costume, weedy music, choreography, set, concept run to a single star. These production aspects are all very poor indeed. A tenuous 3 star then

***

RUNS AT GLOBE UNTIL 14th OCTOBER 2018

WHAT THE CRITICS SAID

So much of the dialogue was lost here, whether swallowed in Keen’s muttered, ungenerous delivery or obliterated by passing aeroplanes. A Winter’s Tale that might have engrossed at the Donmar – introspective, conversational, lightly worn – simply couldn’t hold its audience in the Globe, particularly a matinee crowd lacking even the natural frame of darkness. Designer James Perkins does little to help matters, leaving the vast Globe stage all but empty. His only statement (and one seemingly undeveloped in McIntyre’s production) is to articulate the differences between oppressive Sicilia and rustic Bohemia as an awkward collision of historical dress and contemporary casual.
Alexandra Coghlan, The Arts Desk.com

4 star
Arif Akbar, The Guardian ****
Daisy Bowie-Sell, What’s On Stage ****
Stephen Bates, The Reviews Hub ****

3 star
Holly Williams, The Independent ***

In keeping with the new regime at The Globe, Blanche McIntyre’s production keeps things simple – a bit of folk music (rather under-used) and a costume change from faintly Middle Eastern robes for Sicilia (with oddly, the odd Elizabethan outfit thrown in) to contemporary clothing that wouldn’t look out of place among the groundlings for Bohemia … Still it makes for a sparse Winter’s Tale without much sense of place or atmosphere and no shift from claustrophobia to openness. Holly Williams

Natasha Tripney, The Stage ***
Laura Barnett, Time Out, ***
Ian Shuttleworth, Financial Times, ***

This emerges as a production with which there’s nothing conspicuously wrong but also no real spark. Ian Shuttleworth

2 star
Dominic Maxwell, The Times **

We’ve gone beyond the era of disco meltdowns, neon signs and amplified sound at Shakespeare’s Globe. Let the actors do the walking, let the text do the talking. Fine. Good. Yet I left Blanche McIntyre’s meticulous and intimate revival of this tricky late Shakespeare play, this tragicomic fairytale, wondering if it didn’t need more than meticulousness and intimacy to make it come alive. What we’ve got here is a slow three hours that is nonetheless filled with strong, detailed performances.

Fiona Mountford, Evening Standard **

THE WINTER’S TALE ON THIS BLOG

  • The Winter’s Tale – RSC 2013
  • The Winter’s Tale – Branagh, Kenneth Branagh Company, 2015
  • The Winter’s Tale – Wanamaker Playhouse, 2016
  • The Winter’s Tale – Cheek by Jowl on tour, Bath 2017
  • The Winter’s Tale – Globe 2018
  • The Winter’s Tale, RSC on BBC4, 2021

BLANCHE McINTYRE (director)
The Winter’s Tale, Globe 2018
The Norman Conquests, Ayckbourn, Chichester 2017
Titus Andronicus, RSC 2017
The Two Noble Kinsmen, RSC 2016
Noises Off, Nuffield, Southampton, 2016
As You Like It, Globe 2015
Arcadia by Tom Stoppard, Brighton, 2015
The Comedy of Errors, Globe 2014
The Seagull, Headlong / Nuffield 2013

WILL KEEN
Quartermaine’s Terms, Brighton 2013
Hysteria, by Terry Johnson,  Bath 2012

OLIVER RYAN
Doctor Faustus, RSC 2016
As You Like It, RSC 2013
Hamlet, RSC 2013

JORDAN METCALFE
The Hypocrite, by Richard Bean, RSC 2017
POSH by Laura Wade, Salisbury 2015

LUKE MCGREGOR
Titus Andronicus, RSC 2017

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      • Work Is A Four Letter Word
    • It was fifty years ago in May …
    • John Wetton Tribute
    • music
      • 45 rpm records …
        • Leon Rosselson
      • Anglicana … and Americana
      • Anti songs
      • Broadside: Bellowhead
      • Concerts
        • 70th Party …
        • ABBA Tribute / BSO
        • Al Stewart
        • Albert Lee
        • Allen Toussaint
        • 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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