Hard though it is to believe, it is nearly seventeen years since we went backstage at the Royal Opera House in the BBC fly-on-the-wall series The House. Michael Kaiser, who later became general director of Covent Garden, summed more
20:16 I'm won over - not by the switching at The Space but by the view of the performance that the 'mix' channel offers. (Suzy Klein, incidentally, doing a great job.) And with that, I think I'm going to sign more
This seasonal post is an edited version of one that I wrote last year for the blog of the research project about theatre plays on British television, Screen Plays. I hope it is sufficiently entertaining to bear repeating here. What more
For yesterday's post I scribbled some notes about our filming this week for the research project Shakespearean London Theatres. With a company of nine actors we have been staging scenes from four early modern plays and more
So, you know, what does a producer actually do? Well, judging by the paucity of posts this week, when he's filming he certainly doesn't have time for his blog. Since Monday we have been shooting short drama scenes for the more
Time was in our house when the Advent calendar was the centre of the world right through December. But now our eldest, Nicholas, is studying at Ningbo in China (and blogging his time there), his brother Ben is more
The Julius Caesar DVD has arrived! The disc includes a new 40-minute documentary Julius Caesar: Behind the Scenes with location footage and interviews with cast and crew. We will be presenting parts of that here over the next month. But more
I thought it might be time to bring this blog up to date with the news from my 'other' project, Screen Plays. This is a three-year research initiative based at the University of Westminster and funded more
As I hope we'll have occasion to reveal at the appropriate point, I have a particular interest at present in Uncle Vanya. So the opportunity to see two - very different - productions on the same day seemed too good more
I have lost count of the number of times that I have linked to David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson's exemplary blog about the history and art of film. Now David Bordwell has scripted and narrated a video essay, more