Guest Blog: Jimmy Walters On Podcast SHAKESPEARE IN QUARANTINE
The podcast is very simple. We take one Shakespeare play a week, invite on a guest, explore the play, and then we hopefully excite and inspire our listeners enough to go and read or watch it, where they can share thoughts and comments with each other on our Facebook and Twitter pages.
BWW Review: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
The Taming of the Shrew is arguably one of Shakespeare's most controversial comedies. In Maria Gaitandi's production, designer Liam Bunster has helped to transform the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse with raised platforms and ladders, with the cast using them constantly throughout. Although you occasionally lose sight of the performers as they climb onto the various platforms, it makes the production unique from anything else I've seen in the space.
RSC Collaborates on SHAKESPEARE IN ART Exhibition at Compton Verney
As part of the Bard's 400th anniversary celebrations, the gallery at Compton Verney in Warwickshire - which is just nine miles away from Shakespeare's birthplace, Stratford-upon-Avon - has joined forces with the RSC to create a new exhibition. SHAKESPEARE IN ART: TEMPESTS, TYRANTS AND TRAGEDY, opening next month, pays tribute to a playwright whose work has inspired countless artists over the centuries, from Sargent, Fuseli, Rossetti, Blake and Watts to Romney, Karl Weschke, Kate Tempest and Tom Hunter.
Theatre Royal Plymouth to Stage UK Premiere of Matthew Lopez's THE WHIPPING MAN
This year marks the 150th anniversary of the end of the American Civil War, one of the most lethal conflicts in American history but also an event that was pivotal in shaping the identity and future of the United States. Set in Virginia, following the final days of the Civil War, Matthew Lopez's play The Whipping Man revisits the fall of the American Confederacy and the end of slavery and is a moving and provocative look at this significant period of American history - the effects of which are still reverberating in US society today.
Ronke Adekoluejo, James Northcote & More to Lead PRIDE & PREJUDICE at Sheffield Theatres
Artistic Director Daniel Evans today announces the cast for Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice, dramatised by Simon Reade. Tamara Harvey directs Ronke Adekoluejo (Jane Bennet), Leona Allen (Kitty Bennet), Matthew Aubrey (Mr Collins), Michele Austin (Mrs Bennet), Adam Buchanan (Mr Bingley), Grace Chilton (Mary Bennet), Nell Hudson (Lydia Bennet), Isabella Laughland (Elizabeth Bennet), Emma McDonald (Georgiana Darcy),Abigail McKern (Lady Catherine de Bourgh), James Northcote (Mr Darcy), Sam Parks (Sir William Lucas / Mr Reynolds), Royce Pierreson (Mr Wickham), Corinna Powlesland (Mrs Gardiner), Ruby Thomas (Caroline Bingley), Howard Ward (Mr Bennet) and Eleanor Yates (Charlotte Lucas). They will be joined by members of the Sheffield Peoples' Theatre to complete the company.