Monday morning, three weeks before the start of principal photography on Julius Caesar. Six of the crew meet in bright sunshine outside a Northern Line station. We have come to recce the location which is a ten-minute walk away. There more
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
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
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 the V&A for a Sunday afternoon screening of an archival recording of Michael Grandage's 2004-05 production of Schiller's Don Carlos. This came courtesy of the invaluable National Video Archive of Performance, which for the past more
Yes, I've been super-busy - and, yes, I feel guilty about not posting here for nearly a fortnight. So let me construct a post about a few of the things we're involved in and also about one or two new more
To the Old Vic to sit with Clare in two eye-wateringly expensive seats to watch an immaculate performance of Michael Frayn's Noises Off. The back-stage comic complications, combined with the high-end prices (top whack £85 a seat - more
Headline: while The Mystery of Edwin Drood, part one of which we saw on BBC Two tonight, has much to recommend it, the television treat of the evening - and indeed most certainly of the year to more