BBC, 6 October 2015 David Tennant is to reprise his award-winning Shakespearean role as Richard II at London’s Barbican theatre in January 2016. His performance will form part of a Cycle of Kings season at London’s Barbican theatre in 2016. Tennant first took on the part to much acclaim in 2013 for the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC). He stood out […]
Staff writers at The Telegraph, 13 July 2015 The works of William Shakespeare have been described as unaccessible, but now the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) aims to change that. The theatre company has teamed up with Samsung to launch a new app to bring Shakespeare to life for teenagers. The free Android app, called RE:Shakespeare, which is aimed at 11 to […]
By Michael Coveney for What’s On Stage, 23 July 2015 There is an interpolated prologue to Simon Godwin‘s highly intelligent and fast-moving production at the Globe: a boy king – looking remarkably like Mark Lester in Oliver! – is presented on a golden throne and the arena fills with gold dust. When the dust settles, Charles Edwards is in situ and we’re off, […]
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