In the cooling arches of the beautifully refurbished St Stephen’s in Hampstead a very gentile evening is taking place. Antic Disposition’s production of Much Ado About Nothing may lack a raucous joie de vivre, but it is a very enjoyable, if slightly safe, evening. We are in the victorious year of 1945 and Don Pedro [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Much Ado About Nothing’
Review – Much Ado About Nothing at St Stephen’s
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Antic Disposition, Kenneth Branagh, Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare, St Stephen's, The Public Reviews, William Shakespeare on June 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
You shall go to the ball!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Much Ado About Nothing, St Stephen's on June 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I am going to a mask ball on Thursday as part of Antic Disposition’s production of Much Ado About Nothing showing at St Stephen’s in Hampstead. Sadly it’s not a part of the show as per say and more an after show party darrrrrrling. But before it sounds like I’m crowing it’s only because usually it’s [...]
I’ve fallen in love and it’s with a long dead Elizabethan playwright.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged As You Like It, Much Ado About Nothing, Orlando, Regent's Par, Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, Rosalind, Shakespeare, The Globe, Thea Sharrock, Timothy Sheader, William Shakespeare on June 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s easy to skim the surface with William Shakespeare and miss all the nourishment beneath. Rather capriciously if you’ve seen even one or two productions done very badly then it’s very easy to begin to think (somewhat treacherously) that maybe he’s not so ‘towering’ after all. But then you see one show which makes you [...]
Exeunt Critics’ Picks of 2011
Posted in Comment, tagged Arcola, Barbican, Bishopsgate Institute Library, Bristol Old Vic Studio, Bush Theatre, Cambridge Theatre, Carmel Doohan, Chichester Festival Theatre, Clybourne Park, Daniel B Yates, Ectasy, Every Rendition on a Broken Machine, Exeunt, Fanta Orange, Finborough Theatre, Forest Fringe, Going Dark, Hamlet, Hampstead Theatre, Jay Miller, Jerusalem, Julia Rank, Landor Theatre, Landscape/Monologue, Lines, Lois Jeary, London Road, Lyric Hammersmith, Made In China, Matilda, Mission Drift, Much Ado About Nothing, Natasha Tripney, National Theatre, Neil Dowden, One Man Two Guvnors, Ragtime, Rosemary Branch Theatre, Royal Court Theatre, Samuel Beckett Theatre, Saved, Schaubuhne Berlin, She Loves Me, She She Pop and Their Fathers: Testament, Stationary Excess, Stewart Pringle, The Church of St Thomas The Martyr, The Guild of Cheesemakers, The Quiet Volume, The Seagull, The Village Bike, The Wild Bride, The Yard, this is where we got to when you came in, Tom Philips, Tracey Sinclair, Traverse Theatre, Ustinov Theatre, Young Vic on December 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
LOTS of fabulous picks here by some people who really know their stuff including some expected and not so expected pieces. Wish I could have mentioned London Road, wish I could have seen Mission Drift… Originally published on Exeunt Of course we are wary of the arbitrary nature of these things, the artificiality of seasons, [...]
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