By Nick Clark for the Independent, 1 January 2016 The Royal Shakespeare Company’s great history play cycle, The Wars of the Roses, is to be shown in its original glory for the first time in 50 years. The RSC described the cycle of Shakespeare plays Henry VI, Edward IV and Richard III, broadcast on BBC1 in 1965, as being “one of the most significant and compelling […]
By Lexi Finnigan for The Telegraph, 3 December 2015 A diary entry showing a rare and bawdy glimpse into Shakespeare’s character as a womaniser will be on display to the public for the first time ever in a major British Library exhibition next year. The anecdote, discovered by scholars inside the journal of law student John Manningham, recounts an amusing story about Shakespeare, […]
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 […]
By Robert Gore-Langton for The Spectator, 5 September 2015 Shakespeare’s ‘Wars of the Roses’ will have no ethnic minority actors in the cast when the shows (two Henry VI plays and Richard III) open at the Rose Theatre, Kingston upon Thames, later this month. A sprinkling of so-called BME (black and minority ethnic) actors in Shakespeare has been the norm for ages now. So […]
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