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Tabletop Shakespeare: Henry VIs and Richard III, Forced Entertainment
I first saw Forced Entertainment’s Complete Works, where they perform 36 of Shakespeare’s plays by moving household items around, on a livestream from Berlin. A lot of the Shakespeare Twitter people...
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Okay, I ended up doing something for HASHTAGSHAKESPEARE400 after all! Tonight is also the second night of Pesach (Passover), and I put together a sort of Shakespearean accompaniment to the haggadah...
View ArticleDrunk Theatre: June-July 2016
I’ve been seeing so many plays and not writing about them! Here are a few. Shitfaced Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice @ Southbank Udderbelly: I was so looking forward to this that I got massively...
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“Margaret of Anjou”, By Jove Theatre
Oh my goodness I have been missing this kind of theatre, and I didn’t even realise until I went. A small white-painted wood-floored gallery under a railway arch in south London with one toilet and the...
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“Hedda Gabler”, the National Theatre
Oh IVO, it was all going so well. I’m always up for a Hedda Gabler, it’s just such a fun and well put together play. “Didn’t they just do one?” a coworker said when I mentioned it. “At the Old Vic?...
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All the theatre I saw in 2016, ranked
(nb: most of this was written on the train on New Year’s Eve, so “last night” = Dec 30th.) In 2016 I saw 41 plays (and three staged readings, which were interesting but it feels unfair to put in with...
View Article“The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses” (BBC Two, 2016)
Note: I wrote a first draft of this last summer with the idea of shopping it to an American outlet before the new Hollow Crown series aired there in December 2016, but whenever I tried to revise it for...
View Article“Hamlet”, Almeida Theatre (Andrew Scott/dir. Robert Icke)
We had tickets to Hamlet for the evening of 20 March, and early on 18 March my father died, after a heart attack six days before that he never woke up from. So I’m not really sure how much of the show...
View ArticleMuch Ado About Nothing @ Shakespeare’s Globe, seen August 27 2017
Thanks to Twitter conversation with Hailey Bachrach and this post by Holger Syme for helping me clarify thinking about CONCEPT The best production I’ve ever seen of The Two Gentlemen of Verona was set...
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Writing retreat
Last weekend I went to a cottage in Somerset with two friends in my writing group. We met two years ago, when we all took a non-fiction writing short course at City University (it’s taught by Peter...
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