Following the announcements about 2012’s World Shakespeare Festival, the Bard takes centre stage yet again. Beginning on the great man's birthday, the festival ...
Like most people, there are giant gaps in my film and theatre knowledge, and during this long and geographically far ranging tour, I have really enjoyed discuss...
“The end is nigh”. Takeaway cartons, camcorders, cracked beer cans and bowler hats; this is the quasi-dystopian London of Shakespeare’s Richard III as re...
I’m sure we all had at least one of them in our class at drama school. The effortlessly confident, charming, effusive type who could swan through their trai...
Dialogue, text and speech were the order of the day in David Newman’s workshop on English Restoration comedy. The room was jam-packed with actors and directors ...
Sittin’ boppin’ to the DJ’s beats. Waiting for it to start. The atmosphere at Theatre Royal Stratford East is as matchless and distinctive as ever. What a b...