Review: ‘Doing Shakespeare’ at the Bridewell Theatre
A group of six amateur thespians in the village of Felching are putting on a Shakespeare play. In spite of having a very limited knowledge … Read more
Reviews
Read insightful, engaging reviews of Shakespearean performances from stage to screen. These reviews unpack the direction, acting, setting, and interpretation, helping you appreciate how each production brings the Bard’s work to life.
Chiswick Playhouse’s All Women Macbeth: Review
A group of players with nothing more than a small acting space, a few crates to be used as tables, a throne, a scaffold, and … Read more
‘Telling Tales’: Half Term Fun at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre
Shakespeare still offers the greatest fun, of any writer, for children. The Globe Theatre confirms that with its half-term attraction, Telling Tales. On a day … Read more
Metamorphoses at The Globe Theatre: Review
Strong on theatre, flimsy on drama, great on storytelling This is the first test of the Globe’s new writers-in-residence, Sami Ibrahim, Laura Lomas, and Sabrina … Read more
Twelfth Night Review, The Globe Theatre, August 2021
Sean Holmes’s production of Twelfth Night at The Globe Theatre is characterised by inventions and innovations within a faithful performance of the text, with a … Read more
The Comedy of Errors, RSC Stratford, July 2021 Review
The Comedy of Errors is on at the RSC’s Lydia and Manfred Gorvy Garden Theatre until 26th September 2021. Phillip Breen’s outdoor production is a … Read more
Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, June 2021 Review
Ola Ince’s production of Romeo and Juliet is very contemporary. Shakespeare’s friend, Ben Jonson, wrote, in the Preface to The First Folio, that Shakespeare was … Read more
Shit Faced Shakespeare: Macbeth, Leicester Square Theatre, June 2021
What could be better than a walk about London’s West End on a warm July evening, seeing people who have spent the past year locked … Read more
Review of Romeo and Juliet, Regent’s Park Open Air Theater, June 2021
To be at the theatre at last, with a large audience humming with anticipation as the curtain-up time approaches, is one of the best moments … Read more
BBC and The Royal Shakespeare Company’s The Winter’s Tale, 2021 – A Screen Adaptation
Erica Whyman’s RSC production has had a difficult birth. With its upcoming performances eagerly anticipated and tickets nigh sold out, it fell victim to the … Read more
