Emily Derbyshire is a PhD student at the University of Bristol, researching the representation of geographical spaces, particularly those of early 17th Century London, in plays written by Ben Jonson. She also works as a part-time teacher and tutor, and has been attending plays, and professing opinions loudly about them, from a young age.
The vapours of eighteenth-century gossip are compared to the wind-borne whispers of rumour conveyed from one Smartphone to another in this production ...
Rushing onto stage and hushing the pre-show music, our main characters, Gill (Gemma Whelan) and Ollie (Sean Verey) announce that the play will begin b...
Gene A. Plunka introduces his book with the disclaimer that ‘Holocaust drama’ must take a form suitable to its subject matter; thus, for a play to dep...
Someone in the bar during the interval of the RSC’s production of The Roaring Girl sighed, sat down and said to his wife, ‘This is the strangest Shake...
Andrew Hilton, Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory’s artistic director, chose well in pairing Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia with Shakespeare’s As You Like It....
The trouble with writing a review about a brilliant play is that you don’t want to give too much away. In an ideal world, everyone trotting into the B...
As You Like It is one of those plays that we think we know: the cross-dressing, the dancing around and singing in the woods, thatspeech by Jaques, and...
