‘Badges of his grief and patience’
The RSC's Richard II is two weeks into rehearsals and it is time for another production blog. The trailer gets completed by Dusthouse today and should be on view in cinemas and online at the end of the week. I more
The RSC's Richard II is two weeks into rehearsals and it is time for another production blog. The trailer gets completed by Dusthouse today and should be on view in cinemas and online at the end of the week. I more
So I was thinking I would find something a bit different as the lead for this week's Links. Not Shakespeare again, nor movies or television. Then I read one of the scariest pieces of prose to have come my way more
In March 1958, for the second programme of his ATV series Is Art Necessary?, Sir Kenneth Clark filmed at the British Museum with the sculptor Henry Moore. They did so at night, illuminating the ancient artworks, including the Elgin Marbles, with powerful more
Today was the Illuminations Summer outing. Seven of us went to see the Moore Rodin exhibition (on until 27 October) at the Henry Moore Foundation in Perry Green. The sun shone and the sky was blue, more
OK, so I'm not the first person to notice this, but when I came across this clip last week I did find it fairly remarkable. HBO's The Newsroom (above) which is a cable news drama written by the great and more
The Royal Shakespeare Company's Richard II cast is one week into rehearsals. Thoughts on the first day follow below, but first it's my pleasure to introduce to you our Production Diary. Each week between now and the more
I am not sure if Jonathan Bate's list of 100+ of the Best Books on Shakespeare has been around for a good while, but it's new to me - and that feels like sufficient reason to feature it more
Rehearsals for Richard II start tomorrow, so this week's blog is, as it were, a little previous. (New readers should know that I am producing the Live from Stratford-upon-Avon cinema broadcast of the production on 13 November, and more
To the Gate Notting Hill tonight for an NT Live encore screening of the Manchester International Festival Macbeth. I was away when this production with Kenneth Branagh and Alex Kingston was shown live in cinemas, and more
At the end of last week I posted the introductory video to the Shakespearean London Theatres (ShaLT) project. As I wrote then, we have been working with ShaLT for more than a more