Review of the musical Romantics Anonymous (LINKED HERE) at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at The Globe. Wonderful, feel good stuff by artistic director Emma Rice. (Come back, all is forgiven?)

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Carly Bawden, Christopher Dimond, Dominic Marsh, Emma Rice, Gareth Snook, Joanna Riding, Joe Evans, Lauren Samuels, Marc Antolin, Michael Kooman, Natasha Jayetileke, Philip Cox on 28/10/2017| Leave a Comment »
Review of the musical Romantics Anonymous (LINKED HERE) at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at The Globe. Wonderful, feel good stuff by artistic director Emma Rice. (Come back, all is forgiven?)

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged . Hannah Vassallo, Anna Maria Murphy, Carl Grose, Dominic Marsh, Emma Rice, Kirsty Woodward, Kyle Lima, Mike Shepherd, Niall Ashdown on 24/06/2017| Leave a Comment »
Tristan & Yseult in the Kneehigh production, at Shakespeare’s Globe. Written by Anna Maria Murphy & Carl Grose. Directed and adapted by Emma Rice. Critically acclaimed … and rightly. See why.

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Blythe Duff, Daniel Kramer, Edward Hogg, Emma Rice, Gareth Snook, Gold Roseuvel, Harish Patel, Jonathan Livingstone, Kirsty Bushell, Martina Laird, Max Richter, Ricky Champ, Sian Martin, Tim Chipping on 26/05/2017| Leave a Comment »
Review of the latest Globe production of Romeo & Juliet (linked). This got the biggest critical thumbs-down from the mainstream press in years. I’ve listed the good bits and the bad bits!

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Anita-Joy Uwajeh, Annette McLaughlin, Carly Bawden, Emma Rice, John Pfomojena, Joshua Lacey, Katy Owen, Le Gateau Chocolat, Marc Antolin, Tony Jayawardena on 25/05/2017| Leave a Comment »
Review added of The Globe 2017 production of Twelfth Night, directed by Emma Rice. Bound to be controversial, hugely entertaining. LINK: Twelfth Night – Globe 2017

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Andrew Bridgmont, Danny Lee Wynter, Emma Curtis, Emma Rice, Lucy Bailey, Patrick Barlow, Paul James, Philip Cumbus, Rob Callender, Theo Cowan on 06/11/2016| Leave a Comment »
Review of John Milton’s “Comus: A Masque in Honour of Chastity” at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. Director Lucy Bailey and writer Patrick Barlow have created a frame play, based on its 1634 original production. The result is very funny and very lively.

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Emma Rice, The Globe on 26/10/2016| Leave a Comment »
Link to the article The Sound … and The Fury … at the Globe 2016. This is on the current early departure of the Artistic Director, with an overview of the arguments over the 2016 season with extracts from the relevant reviews here.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Audrey Brisson, Daniel Jamieson, Emma Rice, Ian Ross, James Gow, Marc Antolin on 05/07/2016| Leave a Comment »
Review of The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk, by Daniel Jamieson. (FOLLOW LINK). The story of Marc and Bella Chagall, told with colour, music, dance, mime and every theatrical device. Directed by Emma Rice for Kneehigh / Bristol Old Vic.

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged . Ewan Wardrop, Anjana Vasan, Ankur Bahl, Edmind Derrington, Emma Rice, Katy Owen, Lucy Thackeray, Meow Meow, Ncuti Gatwa, Zubin Varta on 22/05/2016| Leave a Comment »
Review of Emma Rice’s directorial debut as artistic director of The Globe, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, (LINKED) in an innovative 21st century production full of comedy, dance, action … this is a Shakespeare play that can take new ideas, and it gets them!
