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‘Will be just the kind of theatre magic we’ve all been waiting for’: SWINGIN’ THE DREAM – RSC (Online review)

In Musicals, Online shows, Opinion, Regional theatre, Reviews by Maryam Philpott12th January 2021Leave a Comment

The RSC, Young Vic and Theatre for a New Audience have a difficult but fascinating task ahead in re-creating lost work Swingin’ the Dream that honours the original while offering something new to modern audiences.

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‘Deftly experienced hands are shaping this new kind of experience’: MACBETH – Big Telly Theatre Company (Online review)

In Online shows, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Ian Foster18th October 2020Leave a Comment

Not quite ‘when shall we three Zoom again’, Big Telly Theatre’s imaginative online version of Macbeth has some impressive moments.

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‘The whole company impresses’: HENRY V / THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR – St Albans

In Opinion, Plays, Regional theatre, Reviews by Ian Foster18th August 2020Leave a Comment

A return to live theatre is well marked by these vibrant open-air productions of Henry V and The Merry Wives of Windsor at the Roman Theatre of Verulamium in St Albans.

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‘My favourite part of working in casting is meeting fresh, exciting talent’: Sydney Aldridge on the casting process for The Show Must Go Online

In Features, Interviews, Online shows, Opinion, Plays, Quotes by Debbie Gilpin16th August 2020Leave a Comment

I’ve really admired the work of Sydney Aldridge throughout the course of The Show Must Go Online, so who better to talk to about casting and her experiences with this innovative Zoom theatre project?

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‘All in all, yet another brilliant show’: AS YOU LIKE IT – The Show Must Go Online (Online review)

In Online shows, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Debbie Gilpin12th August 2020Leave a Comment

From Rome to the Forest of Arden, as The Show Must Go Online next tackles As You Like It.

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‘There is a real ensemble feel to the piece’: MEASURE FOR MEASURE – RSC (Online review)

In Online shows, Opinion, Plays, Regional theatre, Reviews, Touring by John Chapman8th August 2020Leave a Comment

This is Measure For Measure in a production by RSC supremo Greg Doran and set in turn of the 20th century Vienna. It is and remains a difficult play to pin down but the contemporary resonances remain inescapable.

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‘Adds some dynamism’: THE SECRET LOVE LIFE OF OPHELIA – Greenwich Theatre (Online review)

In London theatre, Online shows, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Maryam Philpott4th August 2020Leave a Comment

The Greenwich Theatre production of The Secret Love Life of Ophelia showcases a selection of excellent young performers that inadvertently asks some big questions about how we cast Hamlet in the 21st century.

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National Theatre at Home: Saving our lockdown & pointing the way for future engagement

In Features, London theatre, Musicals, Online shows, Opinion, Plays, Regional theatre, Reviews by Maryam Philpott29th July 2020Leave a Comment

The National Theatre really did save lockdown and made us appreciate our phenomenal creative industries, but they may also have inadvertently pointed the way for the future as surely as National Theatre Live did in 2009.

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‘Truly lifts a mirror up to pandemic life’: BARD IN THE YARD – Park Hill Park, Croydon

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews, Touring by Laura Kressly17th July 2020Leave a Comment

If you can afford your own private performance, Bard in the Yard is a wonderful, gentle re-introduction to live theatre and a reminder of why we love it so much.

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‘Death haunts this play as surely as it does Hamlet’: How significant is the role of Hester in The Deep Blue Sea?

In Features, London theatre, Online shows, Opinion, Plays by Maryam Philpott15th July 2020Leave a Comment

Like Shakespeare’s greatest play, The Deep Blue Sea is grief channelled into art, aligning Hamlet and Hester as two souls enveloped by death and choosing whether to live.

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‘Hearing others cheering, clapping & laughing transports you into a new realm’: TWELFTH NIGHT – The Maltings Theatre (Online review)

In Online shows, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Shanine Salmon2nd July 2020Leave a Comment

Shakespeare. Theatre. Press Nights. These are all concepts we are familiar with, but in this unprecedented time of COVID-19 lockdown, for a moment we were unsure how theatre would survive.

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‘A delightful two hours of comedy, love & misunderstandings’: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, Bridge Theatre ★★★★★ (Online review)

In Online shows, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Emma Clarendon1st July 2020Leave a Comment

Enhancing the magic and dreamy qualities of the play, Nicholas Hytner’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a delightful two hours of comedy, love and misunderstandings.

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‘An entertaining & fresh take on Shakespeare’s canon’: BARD FROM THE BARN – Barn Theatre (Online review)

In Features, Musicals, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Louise Penn30th June 2020Leave a Comment

The Barn Theatre in Cirencester has built on its broadcast earlier in lockdown of Henry V to develop a sequence of thirty-five monologues from Shakespeare’s plays.

Series one begins with the theatre itself and a stirring speech from Henry V, but as …

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NEWS: ‘Age-blind’ Hamlet starring Ian McKellen begins rehearsals for eventual run

In Native, News, Plays, Press Releases, Quotes, Regional theatre, Twitter by Press Releases26th June 2020

A new production of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, directed by Sean Mathias with Ian McKellen in an age-blind interpretation of the young Prince, will go into rehearsals on Monday 29 June 2020.

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Lost Labour of Love: ‘All I had to do was turn up & say the words wot Shakespeare wrote, didn’t I?’

In Features, London theatre, Opinion, Regional theatre, Reviews, Touring by John Chapman15th June 2020Leave a Comment

Knowing that some 600 people had applied the week previous to that, I had no great expectation that I would be selected but, to my amazement, I was offered the part of Costard.

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‘A lean, swift & feisty political thriller’: CORIOLANUS – Donmar Warehouse (Online review)

In Online shows, Plays, Reviews by Shane Morgan10th June 2020Leave a Comment

To take a play as epic in scale as Coriolanus and find a natural home within the intimacy of London’s Donmar Warehouse takes a skill and lightness of touch that is not only rare but all so often missed.

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I feel I personally have to advocate for Shakepeare’s Globe even more strongly

In Features, London theatre, Opinion by Debbie Gilpin9th June 2020Leave a Comment

Reading that the Globe may struggle to come back from this current crisis without the help of donations and emergency funding didn’t seem quite real.

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‘Tom Hiddleston is worth the price of admission’: CORIOLANUS – Donmar Warehouse (Online review)

In Online shows, Opinion, Reviews by John Chapman7th June 2020Leave a Comment

There are some staggering contemporary references to draw from this staging of a lesser-known Shakespeare, starring Tom Hiddleston.

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‘Thoughtfully & inclusively cast’: RICHARD II – The Show Must Go Online

In Online shows, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Debbie Gilpin3rd June 2020Leave a Comment

The Show Must Go Online was firmly back in history mode with the beginning of Shakespeare’s second tetralogy in Richard II. Not quite as much bloodshed as the previous set of histories that we’ve seen – more posturing and challenging than anything.

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NEWS: RSC cancels or postpones all remaining 2020 performances, including Barbican season

In London theatre, Native, News, Plays, Press Releases, Quotes, Regional theatre by Press Releases2nd June 2020

Due to the continuing lockdown, alongside Government advice that social distancing will need to remain in place for some time, the Company has made the difficult decision to postpone all remaining planned performances.

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