Director Eleanor Rhode is thinking “Krays and The Kinks” for her forthcoming production of King John, Shakespeare’s rarely performed history play. The Swinging ’60s will be a novel
We might think that the sex-for-favours and #MeToo scandal is a modern phenomenon. But Shakespeare had exposed the depraved trade-off more than 400 years ago in Measure for
Joan Littlewood was the anarchic revolutionary of 20th century theatre and now her life is to be retold in Miss Littlewood, a musical from the Royal Shakespeare Company,
Polly Findlay pulls out all the stops for her visually enticing production of Macbeth for the Royal Shakespeare Company. The cursed Scottish play has been exerting its influence
Royal Shakespeare Company artistic director, Gregory Doran, today reflected on the life of the company’s co-founder, John Barton, who died today aged 89. It is with great sadness
RSC Imperium. Images by Ikim Yum Politics is a dirty business Mike Poulton follows up his Wolf Hall Tudor epic for the Royal Shakespeare Company with a six-hour
The Royal Shakespeare Company brings its Rome season to a close with Coriolanus, a heavily political play about one of the Bard’s least likeable heroes. It is a
Christopher Marlowe’s debut play, Dido Queen of Carthage is a story of all consuming love, mystical intrigue, gods and humans, and brutal violence. Not bad for a first
Phil Porter is the first to admit that his latest comedy, Vice Versa, is lovingly ripped off from the Roman playwright, Plautus, who probably nicked the plot from
Salomé, Oscar Wilde’s lyrical one-act masterpiece, is a popular choice this year with two productions at major theatres. However, The Royal Shakespeare Company is taking a radical approach
Felix Hayes and Sophia Nomvete are to star in Phil Porter’s the madcap comedy, Vice Versa (or the Decline and Fall of General Braggadocio at the hands of
