Happy 30th birthday to us!
We are 30 years old today!! Illuminations was incorporated on 15 June 1982. We were sort of aware of that but could not quite remember the exact date. But my colleague Linda Zuck has just looked out the paperwork and more
We are 30 years old today!! Illuminations was incorporated on 15 June 1982. We were sort of aware of that but could not quite remember the exact date. But my colleague Linda Zuck has just looked out the paperwork and more
We are thrilled to confirm that our television film of the RSC's production of Julius Caesar, directed by Greg Doran, will be broadcast on BBC Four at 8pm on Sunday 24 June. As you can imagine we will be blogging more
The emerald-green grass is sodden from the rain that has fallen through the day. But the sky shows a patch or two of bright blue. Richly pungent from a wealth of flowers, the air is full of noises from unseen more
Reviews of and responses to the stage production of Julius Caesar are appearing - an initial list is here, with extracts from a number of the articles across the jump: • Michael Billington's 4 star piece for the Guardian • more
Today on the Screen Plays blog I discussed the new Network DVD release of the 1978 television presentation of the Royal Shakespeare Company's The Comedy of Errors. I tend not to replicate copy between the blogs, more
We left Stratford today having completed all our filming for our Royal Shakespeare Company Julius Caesar. And now we have a quite extraordinarily short time to bring it all together in the edit. I can't confirm exactly when the more
Apologies (and how familiar is this) for the lack of posts. We have been preparing the final part of the filming of the RSC's new Julius Caesar, which we are doing this weekend in Stratford-upon-Avon's Royal Shakespeare Theatre. I'll try more
Time for another update on the pop-up arts offering The Space (go here and here for earlier bulletins). This is the Arts Council England initiative with the BBC which I gather is likely - after more
This is the RSC's neat and punchy new trailer for the stage production of Julius Caesar: How odd - and interesting - it is to see a trailer for something with which, through the film version, we are so closely associated, more
... the 1970s were not in widescreen. Let's return to a favourite topic for this blog, even if it is one that I know comes across as a little arcane. Yes indeed, this is another post about frame ratios (see more