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...
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Tag: Shakespeare
We Could Be Hero: ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ at the Rose Theatre, Kingston
Going into Much Ado About Nothing, my expectations were modest. No disrespect to the play — in...
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‘A not so moudy tale’: Cheek by Jowl’s ‘Pericles’
Pericles is one of Shakespeare’s lesser known plays, one that would give you a particularly...
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Immersion, Convention, Assassination: NT Live and The Bridge Theatre’s Julius Caesar Broadcast
Disclaimers: I have not seen this production in person at the Bridge Theatre. The following is a...
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A Spectacle of Horror: ‘Macbeth’ at the RSC
The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) has a habit, it seems, of relying on crowd pleasing. In 2016,...
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Screening ‘Julius Caesar’: In Conversation with Phyllida Lloyd
Phyllida Lloyd has recently conducted a revolutionary experiment with Shakespeare. Billed as the...
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Caesar on Parole: in Conversation with Jackie Clune
Jackie Clune plays the title role in Phyllida Lloyd’s latest production of Julius Caesar,...
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“I have nothing | Of woman in me”: Renaissance Tragic Women and the Performance of Gender
It is tempting to see something masculine in the powerful women of Renaissance tragedy, to hold...
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Joan of Arc on the English Stage: From Shakespeare to Shaw
Joan of Arc has been a dominant figure in both medieval studies and in culture more generally,...
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