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Writer: William Shakespeare Director: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mrs Helena Hart), Romeo and Juliet (Amy Wilan), Much Ado About Nothing (Miss Colette Marchington), Macbeth (Miss L Cordingley) Reviewer: Laura Maley The Public Reviews Rating: In its 11th year, the nationwide Shakespeare Schools Festival goes from strength to strength involving 600 schools performing in 78 theatres from Aberdeen to [...]

Director: Max Lewendel Reviewer: Alice Longhurst The Public Reviews Rating: With this year’s Fringe featuring no less than eight versions of the Scottish play I approached this show with some trepidation. What an earth might they do to stand out? What clever setting, innovative special effects, or contemporary influences might they abuse in the name of art? As [...]

Writer: William Shakespeare Director: Gemma Bodinetz Reviewer: John Roberts The Public Reviews Rating: It was never going to be an easy task, forged with mounting the final in-house production and the soon to be closed Everyman Theatre before a 3 year refurbishment. Artistic Director Gemma Bodinetz has a huge mountain to climb; to find a show that would [...]

Writer: William Shakespeare Director: Cellan Scott Reviewer: David Noble The Public Reviews Rating: Macbeth has returned to Liverpool, although not to the Everyman yet. This performance of The Scottish Play, at the newly launched Studio Liverpool, is the first of three productions of the play to arrive in the city in the near future, and it certainly sets [...]

Nikolai Foster was the director behind the recent hit Flashdance: the musical, and has worked on a rich and diverse range of Shakespeare, modern and musical theatre projects in the past. We catch up with him as he embarks on his next show, a classic Dickens story – but not as you know it. He [...]

Writer: William Shakespeare adapted by Song Of The Goat Director: Grzegorz Bral Reviewer: Richard Hall The Public Reviews Rating: Polish Theatre Company, Song Of The Goat, first worked on this exhilarating version of MACBETH with the RSC in 2007, as part of the Complete Works season at Stratford upon Avon. The fully developed piece is now touring [...]

Writer: William Shakespeare Composer: Tom Mills Director: Steve Marmion Reviewer: Olivia Waite – Age 11 The Public Reviews Rating: On Wednesday 14th July I went, with my mum and my sister Sasha, to see Macbeth performed at the Open Air Theatre in Regents Park. When we got in, we noticed that there were puppets of swans being paraded [...]

Becky Middleton shares her experiences of her first visit to The Globe Theatre