Investigating the RSC’s newly-launched Shakespeare Learning Zone, and I’m transported back to the days of using absolutely any website I can find in order to avoid actually having to read Romeo and Juliet. It’s the […]
The Royal Shakespeare Company Sells Off Old Wardrobe in Jumble Sale
What’s the cost of an RSC costume? A very early start we should think. Fancy yourself a piece of history? Julius Caesar’s chest armour perhaps? Or Lady Macbeth’s guilt stained necklace? Last week, the Royal […]
RSC Salome Review
Juliette Rowsell challenges the ambitious desires of Owen Horsley as he reshapes Oscar Wilde’s female-centric tale into an all-male performance reflecting, the struggle of its playwright. Salome has always been a play intoxicated with its […]
‘BP or not BP?’ – That is the Question of Student Theatre Subsidies
From odious oil spills to fat-cat theft – Rose Crees discusses why subsidised student theatre tickets are too good to be true. On the 28th of July 2016 BP announced, to the great dismay of all […]
Review: Antony & Cleopatra – gorgeously melodramatic
Starring one of the most commanding female characters in Shakespeare‘s collection, Rose Crees reviews the RSC‘s recent take on the classic tale The Royal Shakespeare Company’s adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra follows the […]
RSC’s King Lear: poverty, humanity and destruction
Can we use 400-year-old plays to reflect on how we live today? Charlie takes a look at Shakespeare’s King Lear to determine whether anything has really changed between then and now: Every time I watch […]
The Interview: Phillip Breen "Fear stalks the rehearsal room"
Doesn’t sex and violence obsess every seventeen-year-old boy?” asks Phillip Breen when I question the choice of play that became his directing debut: Ariel Dorfman’s Death And The Maiden – a harrowing tale of […]
Theatre: Julius Caesar at the Bradford Alhambra
Where and when: Alhambra Theatre, Bradford, 25th-29th September Director: Gregory Doran Cast: Ray Fearon, Paterson Joseph, Jeffery Kissoon, Cyril Nri Rating: Easy 4/5 ‘Constancy’ is what Brutus’ wife Portia screams for in almost […]