Two Gentlemen of Verona. Pictures by Gavin Overstall If you work in the City and you’re looking for something other than londonist to fill your lunchbreak, we’ve got this little suggestion. For just £6 (£5 if you book in advance), you can see some top-class …
When we heard about the Bridge Project‘s stint at The Old Vic we knew it was not to be missed. So much so we rushed to buy tickets for The Winter’s Tale without being familiar with the play. While the West End seems to be …
Dominic Dromgoole, artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, insists that the Globe is more than just tourist fodder. He wants the Globe to be considered alongside places like the National as somewhere to see seriously good theatre. So why does he persist in putting on …
Last week we brought you a review of Supermarket Shakespeare at the Lee Green Sainsbury’s. Well, we’re pleased to say Teatro Vivo are at it again, this time entertaining, confusing and possibly even scaring shoppers in the Forest Hill store. You’ve still got time to …
Teatro Vivo, last seen steaming up windows of the Horniman museum’s glasshouse with Hothouse are back in the fresh fruit aisles of south London’s supermarkets with Supermarket Shakespeare, this time inspired by Sonnet 91. We sped into Lee Green Sainsbury’s, grabbed a basket and looked …
By yonder blessed moon, make sure you celebrate Shakespeare’s birthday today with the annual lecture at the British Academy. Professor John Kerrigan examines the oaths and vows found in the Bard’s work – and we will swear by our sword that there are a lot …
South of the Border was packed to the rafters for Shakespeare in Shoreditch last night. Read more about it on the London Word Festival website as, temporarily, we’re out of words. Enjoy the pictures of the Bardic performers instead. We’re off to Bardens Boudoir tonight …
Image courtesy of Annie Mole under the Creative Commons license In the next seven days: six Czech poets, five Yeats devotees, four more poets (but of eight minds), three ace events from the London Word Festival crew, two Shakespeare-inspired outings, and one under-the-radar reading from …
Want to know a secret? Even many Shakespeare scholars haven’t read the full works. The Shakespeare Readers’ Society aims to plug that gap by reading a play a month (it takes three years). They’re doing them in the order they were (probably) written and tonight …
Take your chances queuing for a seat for Measure for Measure at the Rose Theatre. The Rose, I hear you say? Yes. Forget the Globe, the remains of the Rose live opposite the Globe’s original Shakespearean site on Park Street, set back from today’s Southbank. …
Amanda Hale (Cordelia) and Pete Postlethwaite (Lear). Photo by Stephen Vaughan Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite plays Lear under hot young director Rupert Goold (his Macbeth won awards, you know) as part of Liverpool08: how exciting? Imagine the swell of anticipation on learning they’re bringing the whole …
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