4th June 2012
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,
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3rd June 2012
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
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2nd June 2012
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
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21st May 2012
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
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19th May 2012
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,
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18th May 2012
... 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
15th May 2012
I'm still not sure how best to create/curate a weekly collection of links that is useful to others. The process, however, is important to me as a way of gathering together pieces that I find useful or stimulating and so
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14th May 2012
To Shakespeare's Globe on a sunny Sunday morning. This is my first live encounter with the Globe to Globe season of all 37 plays by 37 companies in 37 languages. (I have also been watching recordings
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12th May 2012
So, Shakespeare lovers, just how great a time is this! Generations to come shall likely think themselves accursed they were not here. In the theatre we have the World Shakespeare Festival 2012 and the Globe to Globe
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8th May 2012
I know it's early days and there is still the best part of six months to go, and there is a ton of great stuff to come, and cool new features are on the way including personalisation, and that I
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