Review of The Globe’s Much Ado About Nothing,directed by Matthew Dunster. A riot of colour, set during the Mexican Revolutionary War in 1915. It’s always a favourite play, here in a radical interpretation.

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged . Ewan Wardrop, Ammara Niwaz, Anya Chalotra, Beatriz Rommily, Doreene Blackstock, Jo Dockery, Lucy Brandon, Marcello Cruz, Martin Marquez, Matthew Dunster, Matthew Needham, Sarah Seggari, Steve John Shepherd on 24/07/2017| 3 Comments »
Review of The Globe’s Much Ado About Nothing,directed by Matthew Dunster. A riot of colour, set during the Mexican Revolutionary War in 1915. It’s always a favourite play, here in a radical interpretation.

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Claire Louise Corwell, Ira Mandela Siobhan, Jonathan McGuinness, Joshua Lacey, Maddy Hill, Martin Marquez, Matthew Dunster, Matthew Needham, Scott Karim, William Grint on 26/09/2016| Leave a Comment »
Review of Imogen (Shakespeare’s Cymbeline Renamed and Reclaimed) (FOLLOW LINK) at The Globe Theatre. Perhaps the most controversial production of 2016 with a setting of drug gangs in East London. Exhilarating theatre. But is it Shakespeare‘s Globe as we know it?

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Beth Cordingly, Catrin Stewart, Jamie Thmas King, John Ford, Love's Sacrifice, Matthew Dunster, Matthew Kelly, Matthew Needham, RSC, Swan Theatre on 15/04/2015| Leave a Comment »
Review added of John Ford’s Love’s Sacrifice by The Royal Shakespeare Company. This play has not been performed in 400 years and is produced as the “best play” from a list of late 16th / early 17th century plays which had never been performed in modern times. An absolutely stunning RSC production does it full justice.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Adele Thoas, Adele Thomas, Dean Nolan, Dennis Herdman, Dickon Tyrell, Francis Beaumont, Giles Cooper, Hannah McPake, Jolyon Coy, Louise Ford, Matthew Needham, Paul Rider, Pauline McLynn, Phil Daniels, Sam WAnamaker Playhouse, The Knight of The Burning Pestle on 15/12/2014| Leave a Comment »
Review of the revived production of The Knight of The Burning Pestle at Sam Wanamaker’s Playhouse at the Globe. This play, written in 1607, is a seminal work in English comedy, and this production is so good I have had to amend my “Best of 2014” list from two weeks ago to include it.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Blanche McIntyre, Brodie Ross, Hattie Ladbury, Jamie Wilkes, Matthew Needham, Shakespeare's Globe, Simon Harrison, The Comedy of Errors on 15/09/2014| Leave a Comment »
Review of The Comedy of Errors at Shakespeare’s Globe, 2014, directed by Blanche McIntyre. See link.
Illustration: The boys from Syracuse arrive in Ephesus …


