By Dalya Alberge for The Guardian, 27 September 2015 The story of how William Shakespeare’s father slipped from wealth to bankruptcy, leaving his impoverished son to struggle to establish himself as a poet and actor before making his own wealth in the London theatre, has long been an established part of the mythology surrounding the playwright. But a new study of […]
By Andrew Dickson for The Guardian, 25 September 2015 It was a Monday morning in central Johannesburg – September, early spring. Inside the church hall, a cold light streamed on to the hard tile floor. The walls were raw plaster, stained and grey; bars were on the windows. In the centre of the small room were 12 or so plastic garden […]
By Michael Sommers for The New York Times, 24 September 2015 Shakespeare in love? How about Shakespeare in a jam? That is the scenario in “Equivocation,” a dark, thoughtful comedy by Bill Cain that is currently enjoying its Garden State premiere at the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey in Madison. It is 1606, and Shakespeare — here called Shag; short for Shagspeare […]
By James Shapiro for The Guardian, 24 September 2015 In late July 1606, in the midst of a theatrical season that included what may well be the finest group of new plays ever staged – Shakespeare’s King Lear and Macbeth, Ben Jonson’s Volpone, and Thomas Middleton’s The Revenger’s Tragedy– Shakespeare’s company, the King’s Men, lowered their flag at the Globe theatre and locked their playhouse doors. Plague had returned. […]
Bill review: “The Horrible Histories team are the Pythons’ heirs apparent” By Mark Braxton for the RadioTimes, 18 September 2015 After their skilful skewering of the fantasy genre in Sky1’s Yonderland, the sextet behind it return to the domain that made them famous. With this ambitious, family-friendly film, Mathew Baynton and co once again tread on the dung and cobbles of (Horrible) […]
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