It is difficult to write extensively on a piece of theatre which can be aptly summarised in three words: pantomime for adults. For those unfamiliar with the wildly popular Shit-faced Shakespeare, the production has a simple and effective formula; five actors perform a Shakespearean play with one of … Continue reading →

Going into Much Ado About Nothing, my expectations were modest. No disrespect to the play — in fact, Much Ado is one of my perennial favourites in the Bard’s extensive (and yet-to-be-exhausted) body of work. But, having studied, viewed and performed this play more than any other in the canon, I … Continue reading →

Pericles is one of Shakespeare’s lesser known plays, one that would give you a particularly impressive score on the BBC quiz show, Pointless. Left out of the First Folio and described by Ben Jonson as ‘a mouldy tale,’ it has never been particularly popular with scholars or audiences. So by … Continue reading →

The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) has a habit, it seems, of relying on crowd pleasing. In 2016, their production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream stretched the performance of Pyramus and Thisbe to almost a third of the running time, which glazed over the play’s darker elements. More recently, … Continue reading →