Erica Whyman’s production, set in the 1950s and 1960s, was originally intended to be staged at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre but due to the coronavirus pandemic was re-imagined for the screen and broa ...
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ROMEO AND JULIET was all set to go into rehearsal and open at The National Theatre in 2020 when Covid-19 closed all theatres. The National, very bravely, decided to go ahead with a hybrid version. Sha ...
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When it comes to great crimes passionnels, Shakespeare’s Othello ranks among the very best. The interracial marriage of Othello and Desdemona would have shocked Renaissance Venice. Racism is with us s ...
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Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor, regularly revived, is good for a belly laugh. There is a tradition that Queen Elizabeth wanted to see Sir John Falstaff in love and that Shakespeare, in answe ...
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