Tag Archives: Simon Russell Beale

O brave new digital world

O brave new digital world

Robert Tanitch reviews the RSC’s The Tempest at the Barbican Theatre, London EC2 Shakespeare was a commercial playwright and he always gave the public what they wanted. In 1611 what they wanted was ro ...
Samuel Foote puts his foot right in it

Samuel Foote puts his foot right in it

Robert Tanitch reviews Mr Foote’s Other Leg at Hampstead Theatre, London NW3 Samuel Foote (1720-1777), the long-forgotten, one-legged playwright and actor-manager of the Little Theatre in Haymarket, w ...