Publication day for my book Screening the Royal Shakespeare Company: A Critical History looms, and so here's another instalment in my chapter-by-chapter breakdown. The third chapter, 'Making Movies, 1964-73' is really an essay of two halves. The second part considers more
John Wyver writes: I've been pre-occupied with other stuff for the last few weeks, but I want now to offer two or three 'links' posts rounding up articles that have engaged me recently - to start with, here are pieces more
My book Screening the Royal Shakespeare Company: A Critical History is published this coming week by Bloomsbury as part of The Arden Shakespeare series. I own to being very pleased about this, and I am writing a series of more
John Wyver writes: Today would have been the 100th birthday of Sam Wanamaker (pictured above as Iago in Stratford in 1959), the American actor and director who conceived the idea and campaigned for many years to build the replica more
John Wyver writes: I am thrilled that my book Screening the Royal Shakespeare Company: A Critical History will be published by Bloomsbury in The Arden Shakespeare series on 27 June. It aspires to be an academic study more
John Wyver writes: The past week was occupied by a hugely enjoyable and completely fascinating research collaboration with director and tutor Ben Naylor, his colleagues and students on the MA Acting, Classical course at the Royal Central more
Our screen version of Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake comes to cinemas on Tuesday. Thanks to our partners New Adventures and More 2 Screen, more than 300 cinemas in Britain will be showing this glorious and much-loved stage more
John Wyver writes: On Friday this week, after 30 remarkable years, we leave our beloved offices in Islington's Rheidol Mews. Above is the view that has greeted some of us each day for three decades, and below is a glimpse more
John Wyver writes: On Tuesday evening, 14 May, at the Paul Mellon Centre in Bedford Square, London, I am participating in an exciting event that will offer the first public showcase for a research project about photography and film, more
John Wyver writes: You have just three further weeks to experience the exceptional exhibition Pierre Bonnard: The Colour of Memory at Tate Modern, which closes on 6 May. Having executive produced a BBC2 film about Bonnard back in more