By Martin Chilton for the Telegraph, 30 December 2015 William Shakespeare, once banned and denounced under Chairman Mao’s Cultural Revolution, will gain a new Chinese audience in 2016 when the Royal Shakespeare Company embarks on its first major tour of China. Shakespeare’s works were banned in China from 1964 to 1977 and the playwright was denounced as “revisionist, feudalist and capitalist” and […]
By David Ng for the Los Angeles Times, 27 November 2015 When it comes to writing music for the plays of William Shakespeare, few living composers can claim as much experience as Patrick Doyle, the two-time Academy Award nominee who has collaborated with Kenneth Branagh on screen adaptations including “Henry V,” “Much Ado About Nothing” and “Hamlet.” Doyle has written music for more than […]
How Shakespeare rewrote the past with Henry V By Jonathan Sumption for The Telegraph, 22 October 2015 October 25, 2015 marks 600 years since Agincourt – but there was more to Henry V’s triumph than the Bard to chose to tell in his epic and inspirational play. Henry V was the last of the eight plays Shakespeare wrote about the English kings of […]
By Charles Hutchinson for The Press (York), 15 October 2015 FROM a record 25 pitches to direct York Shakespeare Project’s first all-woman production, Maggie Smales won the battle. She will stage Henry V at the Upstage Centre Theatre, 41 Monkgate, from October 21 to 31, the period covering the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt. For YSP’s 28th show, […]
By Anita Singh for The Telegraph, 6 October 2015 The Barbican is to stage a Shakespeare season next year to mark the 400th anniversary of the Bard’s death. New productions include King Lear set in the Australian outback and a radical adaptation melding Henry V, Henry VI and Richard III into one modern-day play, Kings of War. But the quirkiest offering is Table […]
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