Review: Don Gil of the Green Breeches, Arcola Theatre
Don Gil of the Green Breeches is one of three plays that makes up the Arcola Theatre’s Spanish Golden Age season. The piece is rife with characters donning mult...
Twelfth Night
Handlebards Blog: The Week Of The Birthday Castle, The Knighted Steak and The Brass Band.
As some of you may have noticed, the HandleBards have a stock photo of us in our costumes in the same position in front of each venue. As everyone will have exp...
Blog: Handlebards on tour – crossing the border
We’re a quarter of the way through our tour, hurray! We’ve had some beautiful rides and had very positive feedback, and couldn’t be more chuffed with how it...
Review: Waiting for Godot
Amongst the looming skyscrapers from which, I imagine, many of us secretly plot our escapes from the nine-to-five drudgery, two tramps are plotting their own vi...
Blog: Handlebards on tour – poetry in motion
Handlebards, a four-strong all-male troupe, are travelling 926 miles by bike, touring their take on Twelfth Night and Romeo and Juliet from Glasgow to London. T...
Blog: Is there a wrong reason to go to the theatre?
Is there ever a wrong reason to attend the theatre? Can your motivations be less than pure?Or are all patrons as valid as any other? With the return of Dani...