A Christmas Carol Mel Cooper 18/12/2017 David Edgar, who adapted Dickens’s novel Nicholas Nickleby into an 8-hour epic nearly forty years ago, has managed to adapt A Christmas Carol into a m...
Twelfth Night Mel Cooper 21/11/2017 The new RSC production of Twelfth Night is visually stunning and musically opulent. This, the play by Shakespeare that has most reference to music and...
Coriolanus Mel Cooper 11/10/2017 Completing its season presenting the four major Roman plays of Shakespeare, this is a Coriolanus that is both emotionally engaging and thought provoki...
Titus Andronicus Mel Cooper 22/07/2017 The RSC has another solid success on its hands with this intelligent, energetic production of Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus. For centuries this has b...
Julius Caesar/Antony and Cleopatra Mel Cooper 10/07/2017 I saw the RSC productions of Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra back to back, matinee and evening, last week. I recommend the experience. Essentia...
Antony and Cleopatra Luke Davies 26/04/2017 The RSC’s Rome season, which kicks off with Antony and Cleopatra and Julius Ceasar, pitches itself as a series of Shakespeare’s ‘most political and bl...
The Tempest Mel Cooper 21/11/2016 There is a great deal of publicity about the use of contemporary technology that has been applied to make the new production of The Tempest at Stratfo...
King Lear Mel Cooper 12/09/2016 This is one of the most intelligent readings of King Lear that I have ever seen. For once, you do not go just for the towering performance of Lear or ...
Hamlet Harry Tennison 01/06/2016 Unlike the recent Barbican production, Simon Godwin creates a Hamlet fit for the 21st Century. The transformation of Shakespeare’s revenge tragedy to ...
Hamlet Mel Cooper 11/04/2016 This is an intelligent, energetic and original Hamlet that should have even the most jaded student of the play reconsidering it afresh. At the centre ...
