‘The Winter Lake’ – Emptiness And Isolation In Rural Ireland: Review
The new production, called Dream, will allow audiences to directly influence aspects of the show via a virtual reality interface.Read More
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Beloved actor and national treasure Christopher Plummer sadly passed away yesterday, aged 91. With a career spanning seven decades, he touched the hearts of so many and left a legacy which will be cherished by all generations to come. Born in Toronto in 1929, Plummer initially began studying to be a concert pianist. However, after being inspired […]Read More
BroadwayHD will be streaming a number of the RSC's acclaimed productions for their users, including the 2018 adaptation of Macbeth.Read More
Building work has begun on the Thorington Theatre, a sustainably built outdoor venue that will welcome audiences of up to 350 people.Read More
The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) announced last week that planned in-person performances of its Tales for Winter series on the 18th and 19th of December will be moved online. Warwickshire, home of the RSC, will be placed into tier three lockdown restrictions from the 2nd of December, forcing theatres to remain closed to the public. […]Read More
Physical differences and disability have suffered a long history of poor representation in film. The Witches is just the most recent example.Read More
Lucy Lillystone reviews Cheek by Jowl's The Winter's Tale, which she describes as "one of the most thought-provoking, intelligent and challenging adaptations of Shakespeare's play performed yet".Read More
National Theatre is reimagining Shakespeare’s classic tale of star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet, in a made-for-television film featuring Chernobyl’s Jessie Buckley and The Crown’s Josh O’Connor as the titular characters. Set in present-day Italy, the film will follow the two young lovers “in a world where Catholic and secular values clash” as they “strive to […]Read More
The Royal Shakespeare Company are closing two of their venues until 2022, with a reformed programme of winter events in the works.Read More
Mischa Alexander reviews Shakespeare's Globe's Romeo & Juliet, which seems to be a tragedy for more reasons that you might initially think.Read More
Ever since Staged proved that high-quality drama could exist when consisting entirely over Zoom calls, theatre teams and creatives have had no excuse for not creating sublime online performances during the Coronavirus pandemic. Well… Apart from financial and mental stresses, the difficulty of good WiFi, and the fear of the descent into the Maelström which […]Read More
Created by director Sing J. Lee and bionic artist Viktoria Modesta, A Midsummer Night’s Dream re-imagines the fairy trickery of Shakespeare’s comedy as a virtual reality experiment. Under Oberon’s watchful eye, Titania, played by Modesta, is transported into a computer-generated fantasy, where she is drawn into a courtship dance with an unknown figure. The dream-like world is […]Read More
There have been plenty of parodies, spoofs, and rip-offs of Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet since its first performance in the late-sixteenth century. In the past decade alone, we’ve had such highs as last year’s excellent & Juliet, and such lows as two separate instalments of the Gnomeo & Juliet film franchise. It seems odd, then, […]Read More
The Royal Shakespeare Company's socially distanced programme will feature classic works as well as new projects from present day writers.Read More
Adapted by Frank Cottrell Boyce and Carl Hunter, The Winter’s Tale is a modern retelling of the story of King Leontes falsely accusing his wife Hermione of infidelity with his best friend. Except, in this adaptation, there’s a twist: the roles are reversed, and it is Dad who is turned to stone and left on […]Read More
