In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, worlds mirror each other, and sometimes we are not sure if we are dreaming or in the real (play) world. For some the play world is a fantasy for seething brains! Watching both A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Troilus and Cressida in the Swan at the RSC last week, I felt…
Read more Dreaming Troilus and Cressida (The Swan and RST August 2012)
Here is my best of.. lists. The following post discusses what I thought about the year. Shakespeare in the Theatre 1. Romeo and Juliet (RSC at the RST) 2. Much Ado About Nothing (Globe) 3. Hamlet (The National Theatre) 4. Much Ado About Nothing (Wyndham’s) 5.The Comedy of Errors (Propeller at Sheffield) 6. Antony and Cleopatra with Katy Stephens and Darrell D’Silva (RSC…
I decided to go to the three new plays at the Hampstead Theatre, as part of the RSC long ensemble project. To do this required some complex travel arrangements and a hit on my budget. I’d been watching this long ensemble for three years, and really wanted to see their final performances together on British…
Read more Little Eagles, Silence, and American Trade (Hampstead Theatre)
Earlier this summer, I saw the Globe’s touring production of The Comedy of Errors and Sprite’s The Tempest. Watching the Globe’s touring production at Newby Hall near Ripon in North Yorkshire was very enjoyable. We were lucky to get there about three quarters of an hour before it started to set up camp. I…
Read more A Midsummer Night's Dream (Newby Hall, 19th August 2009)
Julie Raby 