‘Yet looks he like a king!’
The RSC has posted a 5-minute extract from Richard II Live from Stratford-upon-Avon on YouTube and elsewhere, and I am delighted to embed it here. This is part of Act IV Scene 1, the deposition scene, and it gives a more
The RSC has posted a 5-minute extract from Richard II Live from Stratford-upon-Avon on YouTube and elsewhere, and I am delighted to embed it here. This is part of Act IV Scene 1, the deposition scene, and it gives a more
Last week, as Richard II Live from Stratford-upon-Avon unfolded, there were several moments when I thought of my English teacher at school, the late Brian Jones. Mr Jones, as he was to us in our mid-teens, was a cool poet more
Last night saw the first round of Richard II Live from Stratford-upon-Avon Encore screenings. Which meant that I woke up to another round of wonderfully enthusiastic #RSCRichardII Twitter responses. The RSC has had a brilliant response to its more
Each time I return grumpily to the topic of today's post I feel the need to apologise to regular readers. I know that I have taken on several times before the vandalism represented by forcing 4:3 archive footage into contemporary more
With the RSC Live from Stratford-upon-Avon broadcast on Wednesday, it's been a busy and fairly intense week. One lovely and sort-of-related online offering this week is the full audio track from the RSC's Midsummer Night's Dreaming event with more
'A while to work, and after holiday.' So today was my holiday after Wednesday's Richard II broadcast (there will be more posts about it next week), and in glorious sunshine I drove towards Canterbury, visiting a couple of churches on more
Slowly trying to make sense of last night. In many ways the broadcast was immaculate - it looked great and, in the OB truck, it sounded great. There were no significant problems in Stratford but I know that a small more
This is the post I'm using to chronicle events up to Wednesday evening; you can also follow how things are unfolding via @livefromSuA, @TheRSC and @Illuminations. 6.11pm Everyone is returning and we're about to more
If you see just one thing in the cinema this week, make sure it's the RSC's Live from Stratford-upon-Avon Richard II on Wednesday. But your second cinema visit has to be the astonishing Gravity, with Sandra Bullock (above). (Apologies to more
Uncertain as I am about whether the details of the RSC Richard II Live from Stratford-upon-Avon production schedule are really of any interest, I took a stab at chronicling that on Sunday, and I'll continue that today. Later today we will run more