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Royal Shakespeare Company’s history play cycle The Wars of the Roses to be shown for first time in 50 years

Royal Shakespeare Company’s history play cycle The Wars of the Roses to be shown for first time in 50 years

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 […]

January 9, 2016 · 0 comments · Film

Trevor Nunn on ‘Shakespeare’s Wars of the Roses — the Elizabethan era’s Game of Thones’

By Trevor Nunn for The Guardian, 12 September 2015 On day one of rehearsals, and in a crowd-pleasing attempt to explain to my company of actors just what it was that we were taking on, I told them that with his early history plays, Shakespeare had invented the box set. Much mirth of course, but actually, this claim is not far […]

September 24, 2015 · 0 comments · Uncategorized