What: The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare
Who: The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC)
Where: The Royal Shakespeare Theatre (RST), Stratford-Upon-Avon, England
When: 14th August 2018
This new production of Shakespeare’s Merry Wives of Windsor is quite perplexing in places but I found it a whole lot more enjoyable than their current Romeo and Juliet. And I think audiences in general will concur.
What: Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Where: Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon
Who: Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC)
When: June 2018
A mid-season visit to the RSC’s latest interesting adaptation of a Shakespeare classic.
Relevance!
Relevance!
Relevance!
This is the catch word that almost every RSC production screams at you as soon as you enter their building in its quaint setting along the River Avon.
What does Shakespeare have to say to today’s world and its issues?
What: Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare
Where: The Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon,
Who: The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC)
When: 4th July 2017
The RSC’s current production of “Titus Andronicus” is a bloody mess.
And that is both a good thing and a bad thing.
“Titus Andronicus” is meant to be violent and bloody and the RSC have achieved that with great aplomb.
However, “Titus Andronicus” is meant (in my view) to be macabre rather than comedic and here too much is played simply for laughs.
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