(Photo shows Alex Waldmann as Jasper and Paul Rider as Old Merrythought in The Knight of the Burning Pestle. Photo by Alastair Muir) I would say that a visit to the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse is a delightful experience. Without doubt, it is a beautiful little theatre, with its oak interior and the candelabra hanging over the…
All’s Well That Ends Well isn’t performed very often, so it is always really a refreshing change from the normal schedule when a production comes along. After seeing Marianne Elliot’s stunning fairy tale version at the national a few years ago, it is hard to envisage how the play might be staged without the fairy…
Read more All’s Well That End’s Well (Royal Shakespeare Theatre, 25th July 2013)
I saw the latest Royal Shakespeare Company Hamlet in previews and I am sure that by the Opening/Press night, the production will have changed considerably since I first saw it. What struck me was on the two nights that I was in the audience was that there were standing ovations on both nights which suggests…
Read more The new RSC Hamlet is out of joint? (Royal Shakespeare Theatre, 14th and 15th March 2013)
It’s often the case that there are several productions of the same Shakespeare play around at the same time. I saw the Globe production of Richard III on 29th September after seeing the RSC (Royal Shakespeare Company) production develop over the summer from its first previews in March until the final performance in September. The RSC production…
Read more Looking for Richard III (RSC March to Sept 2012 and The Globe, 29th September 2012)
Julie Raby 