Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Afolaba Alli, Beth Cordingley, Charlotte Josephine, David Acton, David Troughton, Fiona Laird, Ishia Bennison, Jonathan Cullen, Josh Finan, Karen Fishwick, Katy Brittain, Lez Brotherton, Paul Dodds, Rebecca Lacey, RSC, Steve Newberry, Tim Samuels, Toby Park, Tom Padley, Vince Leigh on 13/08/2018| Leave a Comment »
This is what the RSC does so superbly: the Royal Shakespeare Company’s The Merry Wives of Windsor (FOLLOW LINK TO REVIEW) With David Troughton as Falstaff, set in modern day Essex. Stunning design too. There’s a live broadcast on 12 September, then it travels to London for several months.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Ayesha Dharkar, Chris Nayak, Chu Omambala, Erika Whyman, Jack Holden, Laura Harding, Laura Riseborough, Lucy Ellinson, Mecy Ojelade, Peter Hamilton Dyer, RSC, Sam Redford on 28/02/2016| 2 Comments »
Review of A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Play For The Nation. (SEE LINK) This superb production starts its tour of the country in Stratford, and will use different amateur actors as the “rude mechanicals” in each city for the play within a play, 84 in total, and 580 schoolchildren. A five star review.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Amy McAllister, Chu Omanbala, David Ajao, Derbhle Crotty, Erica Whyman, Hecuba, Marina Carr, Nadia Albina, Ray Fearon, RSC on 20/09/2015| Leave a Comment »
One of the best plays this year, Hecuba by Marina Carr. A new play, adapted radically from Euripides.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Alex Hassell, Gregory Doran, Henry V, Jennifer Kirby, Oliver Ford Davies, RSC on 20/09/2015| Leave a Comment »
Review added of Henry V at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. Directed by Gregory Doran, with Alex Hassell as Henry V. It pulls back on the patriotism, I thought, but is especially good on the comedy.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Andy Apollo, Annette McLaughlin, Ben Jonson, Geoffrey Freshwater, Henry Goodman, Matthew Kelly, Miles Richardson, Orion Lee, Ranjit Bolt, RSC, Swan Theatre, Trevor Ninn, Volpone on 15/07/2015| Leave a Comment »
Review added of Volpone (FOLLOW LINK HERE) at the Royal Shakespeare Company. Directed by Trevor Nunn and with Henry Goodman as Volpone. Sometimes modern dress works. This is a sublime example, set squarely in 2015. Five stars.
Annette McLaughlin as Lady Politic Would-Be and Volpone (Henry Goodman) faking illness
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Brian Protheroes, Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, Jamie Ballard, Ken Nwosu, Makram J. Khoury, Nadia Albina, Patsy Ferran, Polly Findlay, Royal Shakespeare Company, RSC, The Merchant of Venice on 27/06/2015| Leave a Comment »
Review added of The Merchant of Venice, Royal Shakespeare Company 2015. Some reviews didn’t like it. We did (see link). Most interesting is contrasting it with other productions this year.
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 Barabas, Christopher Marlowe, Jasper Britton, Justin Audibert, Royal Shakespeare Company, RSC, Swan Theatre, The Jew of Malta on 02/04/2015| Leave a Comment »
Review of Christopher Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta (1589) at the RSC Swan Theatre in a fabulous all-out Royal Shakespeare Company production. 
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Alex Hassell, Anthony Sher, Arthur Miller, Death of A Salesman, Gregory Doran, Harriet Walter, RSC on 01/04/2015| Leave a Comment »
Review of Death of A Salesman by Arthur Miller, at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre to celebrate Miller’s centenary. With Anthony Sher as Willy Loman, Harriet Walter as Linda Loman and Alex Hassell as Biff.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged David Troughton, Jamie Wilkes, Josh O'Connor, Phillip Breen, RSC, The Shoemaker's Holiday, Thomas Dekker, Vivien Parry on 05/02/2015| Leave a Comment »
Review of The Shoemaker’s Holiday by Thomas Dekker, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-Upon-Avon. A rollicking play from 1599 with a surprising anti-war theme, playing in its day just down the road from Shakespeare’s Henry V. They’re opposite in attitude. 
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