10th April 2020
With four days of holidays stretching ahead, here are some suggestions of streaming and download treats from Illuminations. New titles are now available including Being Shakespeare, Art of Faith II and Harold Pinter's Nobel Prize-winning speech, Art, Truth & Politics.
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29th March 2020
John Wyver writes: the usual weekly dose of writings that have engaged me over the past week, including inevitably some Covid-19 pieces, complemented by one or two video fragments that I have found especially important - starting with...
• The secret
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8th October 2018
I have written a book (well, almost) - and now that it is on Amazon and the website of the publisher Bloomsbury - I feel I can make a modest announcement. Publication is not until next June, but it
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7th October 2018
Links to interesting stuff that has caught my eye over the past week, with the usual thanks to Twitter recommenders and others.
• Trump engaged in suspect tax schemes as he reaped riches from his father: truly remarkable investigative reporting from
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23rd September 2018
No post last week - apologies - but I'm delighted to offer here a new group of links to stuff that I've found interesting over the past week and more. Many thanks to those who alerted me to some, on Twitter
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23rd August 2018
We're thrilled to announce a new version of our best-selling film, Macbeth, now with subtitles across the main film, extras and director's commentary. We are committed to ensuring that our films are accessible to all and every new Illuminations
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24th July 2017
I'm absurdly late to this, I know (blame my holiday), but here's an introductory post about the screen version of Julius Caesar that we are immensely proud of co-producing with the Donmar. Phyllida Lloyd has directed a screen version of
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19th April 2017
Cheek by Jowl are currently livestreaming their production of The Winter's Tale from the Barbican. Below is a bunch of background links and now I am intending to live blog through the evening. The stream will have subtitles in English, French and Spanish,
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15th April 2017
Today is the last day of the run at the Almeida of Robert Icke's staging of Hamlet with Andrew Scott as the Prince. The production transfers to the Harold Pinter Theatre, 9 June - 2 September. These are
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26th February 2017
Since I have failed for the past two Sundays to compile a list of links to things that have interested or intrigued me recently, let us begin today's (acknowledging the usual thanks to those who have alerted me to many
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