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 […]
By Telegraph reporters for The Telegraph, 7 September 2015 William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, friends and rivals in life, both have 400th anniversaries next year. For Shakespeare, it is the anniversary of his death on April 23, 1616, aged 52, following a bout of hard drinking and merry-making in Jonson’s company. For Jonson it is the anniversary of the 1616 folio edition of […]
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 Nick Clark for the Independent, 9 July 2015 Mark Rylance, the actor, has criticised subsidised theatre companies including the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company for charging “way too much” for tickets. While the National has a long track record of offering discounted seats, the Wolf Hall star said it had a duty to cut prices further in return […]
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