The morning of Good Friday. Two weeks and three days before we begin filming Julius Caesar. In just ten days we start work at our location, cleaning, building sets - and driving away pigeons. We are a significantly bigger crew more
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
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
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
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 BFI Southbank for a most engaging day exploring small-screen adaptations of Charles Dickens. Three sessions throughout Saturday featured a host of fascinating clips and a number of engaging guests. In the morning, writer, curator and co-conceiver of more
The National Video Archive of Performance (NVAP) is a great and glorious resource - and shamefully little-known. Thanks to a generous agreement with theatre unions (which permits taping without the payment of fees to artistes and others), the more