Category: RSC
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Their adventures are vividly and cleverly brought to life utilising a variety of media including puppetry, acrobatics and wire work but it is the small, often background detail which richly elevates this production. Rufus Hound and David Threlfall in the Royal Shakespeare Company's Don Quixote London 2018. Photography by Manuel Harlan. It's taken two years…
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RSC's Imperium: Dictator. Photo by Ikin Yum Following a sold-out run in Stratford Upon Avon, the RSC's historical two-part thriller Imperium has its official opening at the Gielgud next week and guess who will be there? Adapted for the stage by Mike Poulton (Wolf Hall, Bring Up The Bodies) from Robert Harris’ internationally best-selling Cicero…
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Vanessa Redgrave joins the cast of The Inheritance, Young Vic Theatre gets me through the dark days of January, here are my highlights from the new play and casting announcements, favourite things I saw (and the low moment). And, thanks to the Julius Caesar press night, there was a bumper crop of actor, director and…
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This is my first Salome and my first Salome had a man – Matthew Tennyson – playing the titular character. The decision does raise the question of why give over lead female part to a man – it's not like there are a plethora of meaty lead roles for woman. Having not seen a woman…
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The RSC's production of new play Queen Anne opens with a satirical song about the monarch's many pregnancies, the joke being that her latest was just trapped wind. It is a humorous song with barbs, Anne is portrayed by a man with fake fat belly and voluminous breasts – her reign was said to have…
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RSC Titus Andronicus production photo 2017. Photo by Helen Maybanks ©RSC If you don't know anything about Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus and you are a bit squeamish then probably best give this a miss. The preview performance I saw last Friday had to be halted as someone was taken ill; at that point Lavinia (Hannah Morrish)…
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* Stan fav Colin Morgan has been cast with Game of Thrones’ Ellie Kendrick in Gloria at Hampstead Theatre which just happens to be my newest favourite playwright. So lots of excitement for that. Gloria will also be a 10 year theatre anniversary for me and Colin. I first saw him (and mentally tipped him…