The Director’s Chair: Colourblind casting – the black and white of it
I’m a mongrel: 25% British, 25% Sudanese, 25% Ghanaian, 12.5% Yemeni, 12.5% Turkish. Mongrel is a derogatory term used to describe non-pedigree animals, yet h...
Romeo and Juliet
The Play’s the Thing: Advice for new players
School education introduces Shakespeare and his contemporaries as texts to be read, analysed and teased apart, and most university English programmes do litt...
The Play’s the Thing: Rupert Goold – Shakespeare for the younger generation
Speaking to an old school friend about how young people are introduced to Shakespeare showed just how difficult and uninteresting she had found him during her...
Review: Romeo and Juliet
There was a curious inevitability about Pilot Theatre's Romeo and Juliet, even before we learn in the prologue that these star cross'd lovers will take their ...
Review: Romeo and Juliet
‘Shakespeare meets Skins’: MokitaGrit’s latest production of Romeo and Juliet provides audiences with a modern twist on the timeless classic.
Staged ...
Such Tweet Sorrows: Such A Let Down
There is something in the air that resembles the stench of manure being spread across the fields to encourage growth of crops. This stench comes in the form o...