2013 will be another year for celebrity Shakespeare. James McAvoy will play Macbeth early in the year. The Michael Grandage season continues with David Walliams and Sheridan Smith staring in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Jude Law in Henry V. In autumn, at the Old Vic, Vanessa Redgrave and James Earl Jones will be playing Beatrice and Bendick…
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)
It took me some time to get into Troilus and Cressida at the Globe Theatre. I haven’t seen a production for about 23 years and so it was nice to see a play that was fresh and where I needed to be reminded of the plot. Laura Pyper does a good job at playing the…
Read more Troilus and Cressida (Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, 23rd July 2009)
Julie Raby: A Dyslexic Writer 