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Robert Tanitch reviews Glyndebourne’s Giulio Cesare on line

William Shakespeare. John Dryden. George Frideric Handel. Bernard Shaw. Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. They have all been there. It was probably a mistake on my part to go straight from David Mc ...

andrew 258 views 0 likes Aug 14, 2020

You can see Shakespeare’s Hamlet on line for free

Robert Tanitch reviews RSC’s Hamlet on BBC iPlayer. Simon Godwin’s production with Paapa Essiedu in 2016 was a landmark in the history of the Royal Shakespeare Company. It was the first time a black a ...

andrew 504 views 0 likes Apr 30, 2020

Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale is on YouTube and it’s for free

Robert Tanitch reviews The Winter’s Tale on line Declan Donnellan’s production for Cheek by Jowl, which was seen at the Barbican Theatre in 2017, immediately establishes that Leontes and Polixenes, fr ...

andrew 308 views 0 likes Apr 22, 2020

You can now see National Theatre productions on line for free

Robert Tanitch reviews the One Man, Two Guvnors on line Puritans closed theatres on 6 September 1642 They did not reopen until the restoration of Charles II as king in 1660 Imagine no theatre for 18 y ...

andrew 442 views 0 likes Apr 6, 2020