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Notes from the Crescent City: Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams, Katrina and Jazz
The undeniable spirit of New Orleans has infused our four days here ...
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Elvis and Shakespeare
‘Romeo loved Juliet Juliet she felt the same When he put his arms around her He said ‘Julie, baby, you’re my flame Thou giv-est fever when we kisseth Fever with ...
Heartbeat Shakespeare
As we leave the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival I look across Kansas City to the trees lying beyond the skyscrapers. The Winter’s Tale which we saw in Southmoreland Park ...
A Natural Perspective
We’ve had a terrific and enjoyably intense first full day, thanks in no small part to the orchestrative efforts of Artistic Director Sidonie Garrett, a force of nature and of ...
The Man Behind the Curtain
Colorado from the air looks like a state of enormous fields in which nothing much seems to happen. Mountains decorate the horizon, staring reproachfully at the well organised emptiness in ...
Redemption Destinations
As we descended into Newark yesterday afternoon – blithely unaware that the forerunning tempests stirred by Hurricane Arthur had caused our connecting flight to be cancelled, and that we would ...
Shakespeare on the Road!
The 4th July is upon on us, and I’ve just landed in Kansas City for the start of Shakespeare on the Road, an epic road trip all around North America ...
Shakespeare Goes to Urbino
A little last minute – but still just in time…. ‘The Shakespeare in Italy Summer School will be held from 12-26th July 2014 in the lovely walled city of Urbino, ...
Shakespeare in the Ukraine
A dispatch from two Shakespearians from the Ukraine who I was pleased to meet at the 10th Craiova Shakespeare Festival in Rumania in May: ‘The Ukrainian Shakespeare Centre express our ...
Hamlet through Hoops?
Hamlet, Max Beerbohm famously wrote, is ‘a hoop through which every very eminent actor must, sooner or later, jump.’ By the same token King Lear is a mountain up which ...
