The Hampstead downstairs works well as the setting for a small one-bed flat. There’s also that nice reveal at the Hampstead downstairs where your taken into the theatre space. The stage floor was made of pennies, and some were becoming detached, falling to the floor. This set the scene for a play about saving every…
Read more Deposit (Hampstead Downstairs, Friday March 20th 2015)
Shakespeare 1. Twelfth Night (Liverpool Everyman) 2. Richard II (RSC, RST and Barbican) 3. Hamlet (Manchester Royal Exchange) 4. Titus Andronicus (Shakespeare’s Globe) 5. The Merchant of Venice (Almeida) 6. Much Ado About Nothing (Manchester Royal Exchange). 7. Taming of the Shrew (RSC) 8. Much Ado About Nothing (Love’s Labour’s Won) (RSC) 9. Love’s Labour’s…
Paul Ready as Benedick and Ellie Piercy (c) Manchester Royal Exchange I was very lucky to see two excellent Shakespeare productions recently. The first was Twelfth Night at the newly refurbished Liverpool Everyman and the second was Much Ado About Nothing at the Manchester Royal Exchange. Both productions were directed by women, Much Ado About…
Read more Shakespeare up north (Twelfth Night and Much Ado About Nothing)
A version of the ‘…all hail!’ to me? So Judas did to Christ..’ (Revisiting Richard II, RST and Barbican, October 27th to Wednesday 8th January 2014) post can be found on http://bloggingshakespeare.com/reviewing-shakespeare/author/julieraby/
Visit my new blog about the events I am taking part in over the summer and how I hope to raise a little bit of money for some charities. http://julierabyrunning.wordpress.com/2012/04/29/running-ambling-swimming/
My comment on Professor Stanley Wells’ post RSC at fifty. http://bloggingshakespeare.com/the-r-s-c-at-fifty
Read more Comment on RSC at fifty – blog post by Professor Stanley Wells
Trailers – Romeo and Juliet | RSC.
Just to say that I have had a couple of important deadlines recently and the blog has been slightly neglected because of this. I’ve seen a lot of theatre recently, and would like to catch up with writing up my thoughts in the next few weeks.
Michael Portillo being interviewed on College Green before the coalition government was formed (7th May 2010) In the theatre, audience participation is often encouraged. During the election campaign, the live leaders TV debates was a new element, and clearly had an impact in the way that a television audience viewed the election. However, It was so strange…
Read more Twitter word cloud – what I’ve been preoccupied with this week..
Julie Raby: A Dyslexic Writer 