By Simon Farquhar for The Independent, 8 June 2015 The fatherly, urbane Richard Johnson was well-equipped for a career as one of the leading lights of the RSC, of which he was a founder member. With a voice that could command as easily as it could charm, lounge-lizard good looks and a sturdy physicality, his 70-year career also included spells as a […]
The Voice, 7 May 2015 Game of Thrones actor Lucian Msamati will take on the revered role of Iago in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s (RSC) production of Othello next month. It is the first time the company has cast a black actor in the role, which is usually interpreted as being a deeply malignant racist. But RSC’s artistic director Gregory Doran said stressed that […]
By Amanda Katz for The Boston Globe, 18 April 2015 One morning this month, Tina Packer was rushing across Harvard’s campus to professor Marjorie Garber’s 11 a.m. class on Shakespeare’s early plays when she learned a secret: The class, which she was guest-teaching, typically didn’t really get going till 11:07. She stopped short on the sidewalk. “Tricked! Tricked! Tricked!” she […]
By Sheri Barrett for BroadwayWorld.com, 30 March 2015 What happens when two of the world’s most extraordinary theater companies, the England’s Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre of Scotland, make the decision to work together on a sequel to Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth, one of his darkest and most powerful works? It’s no less than a magical combination of talent that makes an […]
By Lyn Gardner for The Guardian‘s Theatre blog, 17 March 2015 How should we introduce children to Shakespeare? I ask because it’s Shakespeare Week in primary schools, a nationwide initiative that aims to introduce the under-11s to the plays of the man who is inevitably dubbed in the online trailers as “the world’s greatest writer”. That always makes me think of Robert Graves’ pithy […]
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