Showing posts with label Shakespeare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shakespeare. Show all posts
Monday, 1 May 2017

London theatre summer

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It is shaping up to be a good summer for theatre in London with lots of new shows and revivals and transfers We enjoyed the revived BOYS ...
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Friday, 31 March 2017

Hamlet, 2017

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Can we take on yet another HAMLET? I missed Benedict Cumberbatch's over-hyped one last year, but will definitely want to see his S...
Sunday, 9 October 2016

Two Bosie's ....

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Interesting for us theatre folk to see two actors who have played Lord Alfred Douglas in David Hare's THE JUDAS KISS , together in a ne...
Friday, 26 August 2016

Summer re-views, briefly

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WOMEN HE'S UNDRESSED . Gilliam Armstrong's 2014 documentary on Hollywood costume designer Orry-Kelly, which we have mentioned her...
Saturday, 13 August 2016

Theatre still of the day: Vivien Leigh ....

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... as Tatiana in A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM in 1937, photograph by J B Debenham, (the image is advertising a current theatre exhib...
Thursday, 11 August 2016

Romeo & Juliet at The Garrick

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To London for the Kenneth Branagh production of ROMEO AND JULIET , co-directed by Branagh, a Shakespeare I am not that keen on and it has...
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Friday, 22 July 2016

Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this sun of York ...

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To the Almeida Theatre in London for their current production, The Bard's RICHARD III in a highly praised production by director Rup...
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Saturday, 23 April 2016

Cleo, Shakespeare & all that jazz

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400 years today since Shakespeare died (aged 52 in 1616) - lots of celebrations here in the UK, including an all-star marathon on The Bar...
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Wednesday, 7 October 2015

All hail Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter...

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Good to be back at the movies on a rainy afternoon, with just 5 of us in the auditorium, so almost a private screening of this new versio...
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Thursday, 13 August 2015

To be or not to be ....

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Alas, poor Benedict, as HAMLET -mania grips the city. Back in the '60s and '70s and '80s we went to HAMLET s regularly withou...
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Monday, 25 May 2015

Cannes 2015

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An email from the BFI on the Cannes Prize winners.  French director Jacques Audiard has won this year’s Palme d’Or for his drama Dheepa...
Wednesday, 18 March 2015

How now, Othello ?

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Dipping into that Shakespeare backlog (6 HAMLET s, 4 MACBETH s, Olivier as Shylock, Welles as Falstaff, etc) finally, we get to see Laure...
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Saturday, 14 March 2015

The Dresser, 1983

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Finally, THE DRESSER from 1983, a successful play and film, which somehow I never saw until now - this is a feast of acting and another gr...
Tuesday, 30 September 2014

Great performances: Olivier's Richard III

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Great performances come in various shapes, few as stunning at the spider-like, stunted king who dominates Laurence Olivier's 1955/56 ...
Tuesday, 29 November 2011

Life upon the wicked stage . . .

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SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE was one of those polarising movies back in 1998/1999 - did you prefer it or SAVING PRIVATE RYAN ? (just like in 1994...