RSC
RSC directorship goes to odds-on favouriteThursday, 22 March 2012![]() Gregory Doran was today named the incoming artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he will succeed Michael Boyd in the post later this year. The announcement came as no surprise given Doran's longstanding commitment to an... Read more... |
theartsdesk Q&A: Director Barrie RutterSunday, 29 January 2012![]() In 1992 Northern Broadsides, the Halifax-based theatre company founded by Barrie Rutter, staged its first production, Richard III. Rutter (b 1946), an established actor who had worked with some of the most distinguished names in theatre such as... Read more... |
Actress Lisa Dillon on taming the ShrewTuesday, 24 January 2012![]() I have never seen another Kate so I didn’t have any preconceived ideas about the role. I was incredibly excited to play this woman in a play which is regarded as so heavily misogynistic and very much a battle of the sexes - to make this Kate very... Read more... |
Matilda the Musical, Cambridge TheatreFriday, 25 November 2011![]() WC Fields once famously cautioned against working with children or animals. He might very well have gone crazy had he been involved with the RSC’s hit musical production Matilda, which started out in Stratford-upon-Avon last November, garnering... Read more... |
2012 Cultural Olympiad events announcedFriday, 04 November 2011![]() The 2012 Cultural Olympiad has been announced and events will take place throughout the UK from 21 June until the last day of the Paralympics, 9 September. Ruth Mackenzie, director of the Cultural Olympiad, said that many events would be free, and... Read more... |
theartsdesk Q&A: Comedian Tim MinchinSaturday, 08 October 2011Tim Minchin (b 1975) has had a year in the stratosphere that would arouse envy even in the biggest arena comedians. He has taken an orchestra on the road to play bespoke arrangements of his scabrous attacks on religion, hypocrisy and uncritical... Read more... |
My Summer Reading: Comedian Tim MinchinSunday, 07 August 2011![]() Tim Minchin, the Australian minstrel comedian, is known by his catweazel hair, thickly kohled eyes and dazzlingly witty songs bashed out at a grand piano about, among other things, the debatable existence of the Almighty. Lately his repertoire of... Read more... |
theartsdesk in Stratford-upon-Avon: A New Stage for ShakespeareWednesday, 08 June 2011![]() When the Royal Shakespeare Company seemed to be falling apart in the late 1990s, there was genuine cause for concern. The troupe had no automatic monopoly over performances of Shakespeare, nor could it claim a very particular style in its stagings.... Read more... |
Silence, Royal Shakespeare Company/Filter, Hampstead TheatreWednesday, 18 May 2011![]() If your heart breaks a continent or more away from home, does it make a noise? Very much so in the scintillating Royal Shakespeare Company/Filter collaboration Silence, the second in a series of three RSC premieres at the Hampstead Theatre. Wedding... Read more... |
The Tempest, Little Angel Theatre/ Royal Shakespeare CompanySaturday, 23 April 2011![]() Puppetry has come a long way in this country. Once considered the domain of children’s theatre only, you’ll now be hard pushed to find a classical production where puppets are not used in some way. For this sea change we have to thank, amongst... Read more... |
Little Eagles, Hampstead TheatreThursday, 21 April 2011![]() Space is a great subject for theatre. I’m not sure why but it might be something to do with the contrast between the irreducible groundedness of live performance and the imaginary flights of fancy that the audience yearns to take. Whatever the... Read more... |
Rona Munro on writing Little EaglesWednesday, 13 April 2011![]() My latest play, Little Eagles, marks the 50th anniversary of cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin’s first orbit around the Earth. Gagarin’s place in history is, quite rightly, assured but little is known about Sergei Korolyov, a brilliant engineer and the chief... Read more... |
