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In a project directed by Google’s Tom Uglow and the RSC’s Geraldine Collinge, people all over the world will be able to join the Royal Shakespeare Company live in Stratford-upon-Avon and online, as they present a one-off digital theatre project, Midsummer Night’s Dreaming. This creative experiment will take place over Midsummer weekend, 21 –24 June [...]

Writer: William Shakespeare Music: Jon Boden Director: Lucy Bailey Reviewer: Rebecca Brown The Public Reviews Rating: The Winter’s Tale is a play torn in half, as if a pessimist penned the first half and an optimist the second. It’s a difficult Shakespeare play to do well, because thematically it’s a bit like trying to fit two opposing jigsaw [...]

Writer: Ellis Peters Director, Adapter, Designer: Michael Lunney Reviewer: Anna Ambelez The Public Reviews Rating: Luke warm Virgin in The Ice breaks no ice and leaves one cold. Civil War raging during the bleak winter of 1139 sees refugees fleeing for their lives from Worcester: amongst the fugitives is the orphaned Yves Hugonin (Daniel Murray), beautiful sister Ermina [...]

Director: Lucy Bailey Reviewer: Sara Jackson The Public Reviews Rating: Upon walking into the Grand Opera House to see the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of A Winter’s Tale, the first thing that greets you is a huge projection of rocks waving underwater; it produces a genuinely unnerving feeling from the beginning. Juxtaposed against this modern and fluid image [...]

Writer: Alexander Pushkin, adapted by Adrian Mitchell Music: John Woolf Director: Michael Boyd Reviewer: Selwyn Knight The Public Reviews Rating: Alexander Pushkin wrote Boris Godunov around 1825. It was always intended as an attack on the Russia of the time, but, then as now, attacking the status quo could be a dangerous thing, so his message was thinly [...]

Writer: William Shakespeare Music: Akintayo Akinbode Director: Gregory Doran Reviewer: Laura Maley The Public Reviews Rating: Following appearances in Stratford-upon-Avon and London, Gregory Doran’s Africa-based ‘revival’ of Julius Caesar for the Royal Shakespeare Company arrives at The Lowry this week. This marks the opportunity for North West audiences to enjoy classical performances from an outstanding ensemble cast in [...]

Writer: William Shakespeare Director: Gregory Doran Reviewer: Tony Oliver The Public Reviews Rating: The Bradford Alhambra was the latest venue on the RSC’s tour of the William Shakespeare play Julius Caesar which is touring until October 27th 2012. Rome had been transported to modern day Africa, and on entering the auditorium the cast are playing music and [...]

Writer: Calixto Bieito, based on texts by William Shakespeare Director: Calixto Bieito Reviewer: Selwyn Knight The Public Reviews Rating: It’s Shakespeare, Jim, but not as we know it … Forests is a co-production between Birmingham Repertory Theatre and Barcelona Internacional Teatre in association with the Royal Shakespeare Company and is part of the Cultural Olympiad. Under its founder, [...]