More than a Boozy Pantomime: Shit-faced Shakespeare’s ‘The Merchant of Venice’
It is difficult to write extensively on a piece of theatre which can be aptly summarised in three...
Read Moreby Matilda Payne | Jun 13, 2018 | Homepage Featured, Performance, Spotlight
It is difficult to write extensively on a piece of theatre which can be aptly summarised in three...
Read Moreby Lexy Hudson | Apr 26, 2018 | Homepage Featured, Performance, Spotlight
Going into Much Ado About Nothing, my expectations were modest. No disrespect to the play — in...
Read Moreby Sian Bayley | Apr 12, 2018 | Homepage Featured, Performance, Spotlight
Pericles is one of Shakespeare’s lesser known plays, one that would give you a particularly...
Read Moreby Beth Sharrock | Apr 1, 2018 | Performance
Disclaimers: I have not seen this production in person at the Bridge Theatre. The following is a...
Read Moreby Liam Taft | Mar 23, 2018 | Homepage Featured, Performance, Spotlight
The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) has a habit, it seems, of relying on crowd pleasing. In 2016,...
Read Moreby Alex Killeen | Jul 12, 2017 | Features, Interviews, Literature & Film, Performance
Phyllida Lloyd has recently conducted a revolutionary experiment with Shakespeare. Billed as the...
Read Moreby Alex Killeen | Jul 10, 2017 | Features, Interviews, Literature & Film, Performance
Jackie Clune plays the title role in Phyllida Lloyd’s latest production of Julius Caesar,...
Read Moreby Charlie Seymour | Mar 8, 2017 | Features, Performance
It is tempting to see something masculine in the powerful women of Renaissance tragedy, to hold...
Read Moreby Alex Hackitt-Anwyl | Mar 8, 2017 | Features, Performance
Joan of Arc has been a dominant figure in both medieval studies and in culture more generally,...
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