30th March 2012
Monday morning, five days ago. Just after ten o'clock on the top floor of the Royal Shakespeare Company's south London rehearsal rooms the cast and creatives of Julius Caesar meet for the first time. Our chairs are set in a
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25th March 2012
I enjoyed across last week adding links to the previous post, and I'm going to repeat the experiment this week. But I am going to do away with the headings and include the new links at the top of the
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18th March 2012
I have been thinking about how to create a new form of my links page that is useful but also sustainable (in the sense that it doesn't take too much time to post). Here is the first outing for a
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8th March 2012
Simon Callow's one-person show Being Shakespeare today makes a triumphant return to London's Trafalgar Studios. The production plays until 31 March before transferring to New York (for tickets, go here) but today is also the release date for our
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7th March 2012
I blogged a fortnight back about how Points, our proposal for Arts Council England/BBC initiative The Space, lost out in the final funding round. Today I had a kind of post-rejection counselling session with a solicitous man
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6th March 2012
The late Lord St John of Fawsley, whose death was announced yesterday, is not perhaps the first person who you might expect to find celebrated here. As Norman St-John Stevas, he was a Tory minister for the arts and an
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