Reviews of and responses to the stage production of Julius Caesar are appearing - an initial list is here, with extracts from a number of the articles across the jump: • Michael Billington's 4 star piece for the Guardian • more
Today on the Screen Plays blog I discussed the new Network DVD release of the 1978 television presentation of the Royal Shakespeare Company's The Comedy of Errors. I tend not to replicate copy between the blogs, more
We left Stratford today having completed all our filming for our Royal Shakespeare Company Julius Caesar. And now we have a quite extraordinarily short time to bring it all together in the edit. I can't confirm exactly when the more
Apologies (and how familiar is this) for the lack of posts. We have been preparing the final part of the filming of the RSC's new Julius Caesar, which we are doing this weekend in Stratford-upon-Avon's Royal Shakespeare Theatre. I'll try more
To Shakespeare's Globe on a sunny Sunday morning. This is my first live encounter with the Globe to Globe season of all 37 plays by 37 companies in 37 languages. (I have also been watching recordings more
So, Shakespeare lovers, just how great a time is this! Generations to come shall likely think themselves accursed they were not here. In the theatre we have the World Shakespeare Festival 2012 and the Globe to Globe more
Working intensively on our BBC film of the RSC's Julius Caesar over the past few weeks, I've missed out on a lot of reading and viewing - not to mention blog recommendations. Today's column of links (to which as usual I'll more
It takes a while to wind down and warm up after a shoot like ours for Julius Caesar. We were away from Oriental City by 6.30pm on Saturday, although there are two further days of clearing up and 'restitution' still more
Our last day, and it's fair to say that none of us will be sad to say goodbye to Oriental City, which is where we have been filming Julius Caesar over the past fortnight. According to its more
We are three-quarters of the way through the Julius Caesar shoot, with just three days to go. Paterson Joseph (our wonderful Brutus) reflects that, for all the cold and discomfort of the shoot, we will most definitely miss this when more