Hamlet, Royal Shakespeare Company, dir. Simon Godwin, RSC Live. City Screen cinema, York. 8 June 2016. By Sarah Olive Cast: Hiran Abeysekera, Romayne Andrews, Doreene Blackstock, Eke Chukwa, James Cooney, Bethan Cullinane, Marième Diouf, Paapa Essiedu, Kevin N. Golding, Marcus Griffiths, Byron Mondahl, Tanya Moodie, Cyril Nri, Theo Ogundipe, Natalie Simpson, Clarence Smith, Ewart […]
‘The isle is full of noises….’ Well, it certainly will be as the Olympic Games open with a ceremony that takes as its keynote these words from The Tempest. One of the noises will be the resonant sound of the great bell, the biggest in Europe – twice the size of Big Ben – which […]
This post is part of Year of Shakespeare, a project documenting the World Shakespeare Festival, the greatest celebration of Shakespeare the world has ever seen. Measure for Measure, Vakhtangov Theatre, dir. Yury Butusov, 25 April 2012 at The Globe, London By Sarah Olive, University of York Not entirely unexpectedly, marriages were scarce on the […]
This post is part of Year of Shakespeare, a project documenting the World Shakespeare Festival, the greatest celebration of Shakespeare the world has ever seen. Sonnet Sunday, 22 April 2012 at The Globe, London By Rob Hand As part of the World Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare’s Globe is devoting the first six-and-a-half weeks of its […]
