Written for Exeunt There’s a lovely irony to the Globe making Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus part of their The Word Is God season. Faustus is a demonic tale and one in which words, books, can be tools of evil, can lead you terribly astray. Marlowe’s best known play is packaged here in a marvellously batty production by director [...]
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Review: Doctor Faustus @ The Globe
Posted in Reviews, tagged Arthur Darvill, Christopher Marlow, Doctor Faustus, Doctor Who, Elizabethan Tragedy, Paul Hilton, Stephen Tiplady, The Globe on June 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Review: Bedlam at The Globe
Posted in Reviews, tagged Bedlam, Nell Lyshon, The Globe on September 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Written for Totally Theatre The Bethlem Royal Hospital, once known as the ‘human zoo’ in a byname that wouldn’t look out of place as a Sun headline, was seen by the good people of the 18th Century as one of the most desirable shows of London. Now the inspiration for Nell Leyshon’s Bedlam, mad people [...]
Review: Henry VIII
Posted in Reviews, tagged Amanda Lawrence, Angela Davies, Anne Boleyn, Anthony Howell, Dominic Rowan, Henry VIII, Howard Brenton, Ian McNeice, Kate Duchene, Mark Rosenblatt, Miranda Raison, The Globe on May 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It is a gloriously humid early evening in May with crystal clear blue skies. Surely there could be no better back drop for The Globe’s opening night of Henry VIII, one of Shakespeare’s most sumptuous works. But for all this production’s beautiful framework (both natural and Angela Davies’ lustrous setting) this King does not, in [...]
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 [...]
