Mawa Theatre Company: “We want to do an all-black, all-female Romeo & Juliet”
In the latest of our video interviews, we speak to Jade Samuels, the Executive Producer of Mawa, the first all-black, all-female Shakespeare Theatre Company e...
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Flute Theatre Online
Zoom is an unruly medium in itself. We are all aware of this hellscape which has dominated our lives over the past few months. Much of the difficulty lies in i...
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Review: RIFT present Midsummer Night’s Dream, Alexandra Palace
We gather on the observation terrace of Alexandra Palace in the shadow of its vast transmission tower. A plaque declares that it is the site of the first ever ...
Review: The Two Noble Kinsmen, The Globe Theatre
William Shakespeare’s little known and last project (in collaboration with John Fletcher) has been rather forgotten by the theatre-going public, debated by acad...
Feature: Shakespearean influences: phoenix or ball and chain?
Shakespeare wasn’t one for mere variations on a theme. His plays scope war, fratricide, teenage angst and sylvan frolics, albeit with a long-running joke on the...
Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Young Vic
“If we shadows have offended...” says Puck, closing the two-hour long production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream with the well-known epilogue. And while Joe-Hill G...