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 […]
By Dominic Cavendish for The Telegraph, 7 June 2015 Next Monday – June 15th – sees the 800th anniversary of the signing of the charter subsequently known as Magna Carta, that hallowed document which so crucially set down an insistence on the need for individual freedom under law. Even though Shakespeare’s King John doesn’t show us his capitulation before his rebellious barons at […]
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 […]
BBC News on 17 April 2015 Sir Kenneth Branagh is setting up a theatre company, with Dame Judi Dench, Rob Brydon and Lily James among stars set to perform in a season of plays. The Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company will take up residency at London’s Garrick Theatre for a year in October. The Cinderella director said he wanted “to have […]
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