Review BE Festival: BE Legend! Hamlet
Theatre with children and animals is always a tricky one. In this case, the animal was a teddy bear and the child was thoroughly blessed with comic timing. Ha...
Hamlet
Review: Hamlet’s Fool
Commissioned by The Ohio State University’s Arts Initiative in 2012, Hamlet’s Fool is both a stand-alone tragedy piece and a reflection on the possible past of ...
Review: Hamlet
On paper, a version of Hamlet condensed into 90 minutes, with a cast of only four actors sounds like sheer lunacy. Well, that is exactly what director Martin Pa...
Review: Blast Off
Science fiction rarely treads the boards, with the exception of a certain Spiderman musical, which ended in disaster with four major accidents. So Misshapen The...
Michael Lesslie’s prince: Hamlet for our generation
Shakespeare gets in your head, according to Michael Lesslie, whose Hamlet prequel, Prince of Denmark, plays at the National as part of NT Connections this week. He tells us more.
The Dark Side of Love: Dealing with emotion in Shakespeare
Continuing our The Dark Side of Love blog series is cast member Rosy Morris, who talks about accessing emotion in Shakespeare's work. When we first started d...