By Dominic Cavendish for the Telegraph, 1 May 2015 ‘I’d love it if they booed me,’ Jonathan Pryce said recently, when asked how he’d feel if the Globe audience treated his Shylock as a contemptible villain, as happened to a disconcerting degree in the first revival of The Merchant of Venice at the venue in 1998. It caused some critics to worry that the […]
By Chris Wiegand for The Guardian, 1 May 2015 The job description demanded “visionary and charismatic leadership”, the ability to “command respect and loyalty”, the confidence to take risks and – oh yes – “a knowledge and love of the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries”. Four months after the role was advertised, Emma Rice has been named as the next artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe in London. […]
By Astrid Zweynert for Reuters, 27 March 2015 William Shakespeare’s Globe theaters is taking on a new role as a financial trail-blazer by seeking to tap into a form of funding dominated to date by social enterprises and charities. The Globe theaters on the banks of the River Thames in London is in the early stages of preparing a five […]
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 […]
Lloyd Everitt as told to Joel Lewin, FT Magazine, 13 March 2015 Actor Lloyd Everitt, who is dyslexic, draws images to help memorise a script and overcome his fear The idea of illustrating scripts came out of a highly pressurised situation when I had to learn 11 pages of Shakespeare dialogue for an audition. I kept going over and over […]
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