I saw the National production of All’s Well That Ends Well in July and thought it was a fantastic production with its focus on the fairytale elements of the play. I felt at that time it will be interesting to see how the cinema experience captures the wonderful set. For the most the screening, as part…
Read more All's Well That Ends Well (NT Live – City Screen, York, 1st October 2009)
This was a beautiful production playing with boundaries between cinema and theatre. The plot was very straight forward but carefully worked out, which managed to build up tension throughout the two parts. I felt that we didn’t particularly like any of the characters but we wanted justice to be done in the end. What I…
Read more Dial M for Murder (West Yorkshire Playhouse, 30th September 2009)
This was a lovely clear and very straight forward production with a focus on the text that brought Shakespeare’s words alive. It was without the set design frills (thrills) that the RSC production have adopted, and so stripped away some of the sense of a busy court. You have to do this with a small…
Read more The Winter's Tale (York Theatre Royal, 29th September 2009)
Julie Raby 