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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 [...]

Writer: Jonathan Bate Director: Tom Cairns Reviewer: Sarah Lyth The Public Reviews Rating: Just who IS William Shakepeare? Shakespeare is immortal, is universal, and is the greatest. These are all expressions of hyperbole that seemingly continually befit, and yet don’t ever do justice to, the playwright whom captivates so much and so many. The Lyceum in Sheffield tonight [...]

Writer: William Shakespeare Director:Linnie Reedman Reviewer: Elizabeth Vile The Public Reviews Rating: Ruby In The Dust strive to create productions that disturb, move and thrill an audience but never leave them indifferent. I feel that their inturprettation of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare achieved this goal. The production is set in the late 1930′s during the facist [...]

Writer: William Shakespeare and John Fletcher Music: Nigel Hess Director: Mark Rosenblatt Reviewer: Lilla Grindlay The Public Reviews Rating: In 1613, a rogue cannon set fire to the thatched roof of the Globe Theatre and the whole building went up in flames. It happened during a performance of the play Henry VIII. This summer, Shakespeare’s Globe is taking [...]

Writer: William Shakespeare Director: Ricky Dukes Reviewer: Evelyn Downing The Public Reviews Rating: The Blue Elephant Theatre is the epitome of London Fringe; a lovely little space with an adventurous and wide ranging programme tucked away in the depths of a housing estate in South London. The basic set up with lovely friendly staff, informal bar area [...]

Writer: William Shakespeare Director: Roxanna Silbert Reviewer: John Roberts The Public Reviews Rating: Every year the Royal Exchange bring us an annual Shakespeare production and following on from critically acclaimed productions of The Tempest and Macbeth comes one of my personal favourites Comedy Of Errors. This is arguably one of Shakespeare’s most accessible plays and for some reason [...]

Music: Benjamin Britten Libretto: Peter Pears and Benjamin Britten adapted from Shakespeare Conductor: Michael Rosewell Director: James Conway Reviewer: Audrey Pointer The Public Reviews Rating: Written for a chamber orchestra, this opera premiered in 1960 at the Aldeburgh Festival, conducted by Benjamin Britten himself. In a work considered by many to be the composer’s operatic masterpiece, Britten employs [...]

Writer: William Shakespeare Director: Simon Plumridge Reviewer: David Noble The Public Reviews Rating: The Tempest is one of those rare examples of a Shakespearian play that follows the classical unities of theatre, yet it is far from formulaic. A strange concoction of magic, comedy and romance, it was largely ignored upon its initial release, only to be [...]