Just over a couple of years ago Illuminations worked with the Shakespearean London Theatres research project (ShaLT) to produce a clutch of performance videos and interviews about early modern theatre. One of these, which is embedded more
I'm very much looking forward to this workshop on Saturday in Nottingham. The event is free but do please register online if you would like to attend - there are just a few places left. I hope there will be plenty of more
Last weekend was a touch busy, what with getting Prince Charles, Judi Dench and one or two others on screen, so forgive these Links being a couple of days late. • William Shakespeare, playwright and poet, is dead at more
Saturday night's celebration of Shakespeare on BBC Two and in cinemas, Shakespeare Live!: From the RSC, started life back in November 2013. Illuminations was not involved as a production company, but in my role as Director, Screen Productions for more
WIN a special limited edition DVD of MUSE OF FIRE signed by Judi Dench, Tom Hiddleston and Ian McKellen MUSE OF FIRE is an epic road-trip buddy movie made by actors Dan Poole and Giles Terera that will change the way more
Each day I highlight just three things. Sometimes there are links between them, oftentimes there are not. • State of Terror: innovative interactive report from veteran BBC journalist Peter Taylor about the financing of ISIS. • Martha Graham - more
A time there was when I used to post here regularly, including on each Sunday a host of links. In recent months I have fallen out of the habit. You've been so busy with other things, I tell myself. You've been more
Here's a piece I wrote for the new issue of Picturehouse Recommends about the forthcoming cinema broadcasts of the RSC's Love's Labour's Lost and Love's Labour's Won on, respectively 11 February and 4 March. Picturehouse Recommends more
Let's get this on the table at the top: we believe our 5-disc box-set of the 1960 BBC Television series An Age of Kings, which adapts all eight of Shakespeare's great History plays, would make an excellent Christmas gift. You can more
Just exactly one year ago, Illuminations, working with the Screen Plays research project, released a DVD box-set of the BBC's 15-part series from 1960, An Age of Kings. The series is an extraordinarily ambitious live studio production of all more