Midsummer Night’s Dream @ Festival Theatre Edinburgh
2020-02-11
A new production of Benjamin Britten’s atmospheric A Midsummer Night’s Dream, directed by Dominic Hill, Artistic Director of Citizens Theatre,Continue Reading
CHAPTERHOUSE Open-air Garden Theatre Tour of UK and Ireland 2019
2019-02-14
Magical theatre in magical surroundings Chapterhouse Theatre Company is excited to present its 2019 open-air tour for its 20th anniversaryContinue Reading
Shakespeare’s Macbeth? Scotland! Why?
2018-12-20
Shakespeare’s ‘Scottish play’ Macbeth is a masterpiece, full of atmospheric Scottish hassle and skulduggery. So, why is Scotland not mentionedContinue Reading
Shakespeare and Christmas…
2018-12-09
Shakespeare doesn’t do Christmas. There’s a topic of conversation for the festive season. It might not make the pub goContinue Reading
Shakespeare’s King Lear (alone) @ Edinburgh Fringe
2018-08-11
Inamoment theatre presents King Lear (alone); Shakespeare’s play, adapted by Edinburgh Fringe award-winning playwright Frank Bramwell and featuring Bob YoungContinue Reading
Shakespeare’s Drugs Habit – Much Ado About Nothing?
2017-06-02
by Christopher Burn Shocking news emerged in 2015 – sixteenth-century clay pipes containing tobacco and marijuana traces were dug upContinue Reading
Hamlet at Macroberts Arts Centre
2017-03-07
To be or not to be, that is the question. Whether a performance of an immortal play will rise-up andContinue Reading
Sniping at Shakespeare – A man for all time or ‘no time for him at all’?
2016-12-14
by Chris Burn As the ‘Sweet Swan of Avon’ glides serenely into the fifth century since his death in AprilContinue Reading
Where There’s a Will…, Shakespeare’s Dirty Jokes
2016-10-15
by Chris Burn Poetry, they say, changes lives. I met a man at Dingwall Literary Festival* this week who toldContinue Reading
The Shakespeare Soap Opera
2016-06-10
by Rupert Wolfe-Murray Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool: The theatre is packed but I am alone. I’m watching the Merry Wives by ShakespeareContinue Reading
400 Years of Shakespeare
2016-04-25
by Eilidh Roy I‘ve spent the evening enjoying the Shakespeare Live at the RSC on the BBC celebrating 400 yearsContinue Reading