Tomorrow, at the final preview before Wednesday's press night, I get to see a production that I have been looking forward to for simply ages. Maria Aberg is directing John Webster's The White Devil in the Royal Shakespeare Company's Swan more
To Cinema 1 at the Barbican for a live stream of The Forbidden Zone from the Salzburg Festival. Written by Duncan Macmillan and directed by Katie Mitchell, this new work premiered last Wednesday, plays Salzburg for another week more
Today I went, by appointment, to what they call a carrel in Rare Books and Manuscripts at The British Library. My carrel was a little room with a glass wall, rather fierce air-conditioning and some headphones. An immensely more
Discussions about adapting stage plays for the screen, whether broadcast live or recorded 'as live', have moved on apace over the past couple of months. There have also been a number of further cinema broadcasts, including a successful presentation by more
If it's Wednesday, it must be the live broadcast day of the Royal Shakespeare Company's Live from Stratford-upon-Avon broadcast of Henry IV Part II. We're back at the Boar's Head tavern, which is where Falstaff, Hal more
Regular readers will know that I am involved with the Screen Plays research project, based at the University of Westminster and generously funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. The project is documenting the history of theatre plays on more
I am in Stratford-upon-Avon for today's first camera rehearsal for the RSC's live cinema presentation of Henry IV Part II on 18 June. One of the things that frustrates me about these broadcasts is that they rarely get more
22:26: Hmmm. Really interesting to see, but definitely problematic. Final production credit is Globe on Screen in association with BBC Arts. 22:23: I didn't think this closing worked in the theatre, and the broadcast hasn't changed my mind. 22:22: At two and more
For all sorts of reasons, I'm really looking forward to tonight's BBC Four broadcast of The Duchess of Malfi recorded at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. First off, John Webster's revenge tragedy is one of my favourite plays (along more
This coming Saturday BBC Television broadcasts both a documentary about the Jacobean theatre (on BBC Two, Saturday) and a recording of John Webster's play The Duchess of Malfi (on BBC Four, Sunday) shot in the new more