What: The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
Where: Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon
When: Thursday 16th February, 2012
Taming the RSC’s excesses?
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End of year report: Not Measuring up
Where: The Swan Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon
When: 20th December 2011
What: Measure for Measure
“What Masques, What Dances Shall We Have, to wear away this long age of three hours?
What: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Where: Stratford-Upon-Avon
When: 4th of August 2011
This is the third play that the Royal Shakespeare Company have performed from the Shakespearean canon since the launch of their new theatre – and to say that I did not approach the grim exterior of that new theatre with much enthusiasm would have been something of an understatement.
Double, double toil and trouble
What: Macbeth
When: 25th May 2011
Where: The Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon
All at sea
What: The Merchant of Venice
Where: Stratford-Upon_Avon, Royal Shakespeare Theatre
When: 19th May 2011
Little Fooling around but still a major production
Date: 1st of April 2011
Where: Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon
What : King Lear
I’ve seen this production before. Last year. But then Kathryn Hunter was the Fool. Now there was a story. Ms Hunter excellent as the Fool in King Lear, dire as Cleopatra in Anthony and Cleopatra. One reviewer called that production “gob-smackingly bad”. I was kinder.
The Rape of Lucrece
Date: 31st March 2011
Where: The Swan Theatre, Stratford Upon Avon
What: The Rape of Lucrece
Darren doffs another hat
It seems like only the other day that I was talking about the variety of roles that life throws up for me and here comes another unusual experience.
A play by any other name would smell as sweet…….
The RSC production of Romeo and Juliet which is currently playing in its Stratford-Upon-Avon base and which will transfer to the Roundhouse in Camden, London later in the year is a golden opportunity to see one of the finest productions of Shakespeare in many a year.
Well, what a carry on……. Cleo
Royal Shakespeare Company
The Courtyard Theatre
27th May 2010
Antony and Cleopatra
twilightdawning 