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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
The first day of the location shoot for our film version of the Royal Shakespeare Company's new Julius Caesar is now just over seven weeks away. We have found our location and we are putting together our crew. BBC Four's funding more
I have been reading the late Tony Richardson's memoir Long Distance Runner. (I know I promised a Julius Caesar update, but that waits on a RSC press release - tomorrow, I hope.) It is not clear whether Richardson's more
We cried, we cheered and we clapped (a bit), and then we cried some more. At 11.30 in the morning we set out with Nicholas, Kate and friends, plus a few enemies, on the wonderful journey that was (and, in more
To BFI Southbank later for all eight hours of the Channel 4/Primetime version of the Royal Shakespeare Company's The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. I've said before that the stage production, seen over a Saturday in the more