24th January 2013
Richard II, David Tennant, Greg Doran, Royal Shakespeare Company, from 10 October.
PS. Just seen that for fans of this production @EffieSian has come up with the hashtag #R2DT - genius! That's in addition to @TheRSC
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25th November 2012
As detailed on Thursday, I am posting my links twice a week from now on - on Thursdays and on Sundays. Today's lead is the excellent news that images from the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts at
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23rd November 2012
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
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23rd September 2012
A time there was when I posted weekly a group of links to things that I recently read or watched online. Then I stopped for a while. And now - I think - I am going to start again. Maybe
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18th September 2012
You will have noticed that I have not been blogging much over the past two months. I have been planning posts, writing parts of them in my head, even jotting down drafts. There is one that I want to offer
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8th August 2012
I snuck away from London over the past two days on a kind of avant-garde Shakespeare mini-break. Last night I was in Stratford to see Troilus and Cressida, a co-pro between the Royal Shakespeare Company and more
14th July 2012
Grrrr! I know, I know that you should never respond to criticism, but today I can't resist a little rant. I am also by disposition a retiring individual not much given to trumpeting Illuminations' achievements. But take a look at
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25th June 2012
So, friends, Julius Caesar is on BBC iPlayer. Available until 10.29pm on Sunday 1 July. Go here for my round-up of reactions, including links to reviews from the Guardian, The Independent and
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24th June 2012
06:20 (Monday morning): In fact, I didn't add to the blog (see 22:23 below) after the end of the broadcast. In part this was because my two sons came back from the pub disappointed and dejected (no, they hadn't been
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22nd June 2012
As I have done previously with our productions of Hamlet (2009) and Macbeth (2010), I am using this page to draw together responses to our new film of the Royal Shakespeare Company's Julius Caesar. The film is first broadcast by
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