As Diana Rigg’s understudy, I never tired of watching her | Margaret Drabble | Stage | The Guardian
Diana’s demeanour in real life was most unlike Cordelia’s, and her vocabulary was racy and rich. I once put one of her more colourful remarks about a fellow actress in … Continue reading
Obituary: Ian Holm – BBC News
Sir Ian Holm was the consummate supporting actor, happy to let others bask in the limelight of stardom. He built his career in the theatre with the Royal Shakespeare Company, … Continue reading
Terry Hands obituary
Artistic director of the RSC, who co-founded the Liverpool Everyman Theatre and revived the Clwyd Theatr Cymru. Terry Hands, who has died aged 79, spent more time with and did … Continue reading
RIP Roy Heather [1935-2014] aka Sid the cafe owner in #OFAH
Originally posted on Rogues & Vagabonds:
Please forgive me for any errors, grammatical or otherwise. I am writing this tribute through tears for I have lost my ex-husband and a good friend. Roy…
Patrick Stewart: my nerve-racking RSC audition with the great John Barton | Stage | The Guardian
In a cold, wet November evening in 1965, I plodded nervously across the Bancroft Gardens in Stratford-upon-Avon. I had at last been accepted to audition for the Royal Shakespeare Company, although … Continue reading
Archive Interview • Hugh Bonneville • 2004
FROM THE ARCHIVE Hugh Bonneville is not only a sublime actor but a charming and erudite chap with a fine line in drollery. He sounds a little wary at the start … Continue reading
Discord and dismay | The Shakespeare blog
It’s been a bad-tempered sort of week for those who take an interest in Shakespeare. On Sunday 23rd October actor and former Artistic Director of Shakespeare’s Globe Mark Rylance launched … Continue reading
Black Shakespeare: Paapa Essiedu from Hamlet to Edmund | The Shakespeare blog
On 13 August it was the last performance of the latest production of Hamlet at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford. Every production of this play is notable, but particularly this … Continue reading
Memories of Guy Woolfenden | The Shakespeare blog
I’ve just heard the sad news that the great Guy Woolfenden died on 15 April. For anyone who attended the Royal Shakespeare Company’s productions from the 1960s to the 1990s … Continue reading
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Archive Review • RICHARD II, HENRY IV Parts I & II • RSC Courtyard Theatre • 2007
Following the triumphant staging by Michael Boyd of the First Tetralogy – Henry VI Part I, II and III andRichard III – in 2006, the company returns to the Courtyard … Continue reading
“Shakespeare and his fellow actors promise to be good neighbours” (Henry Carey, 1594)
Archive Interview • ISHIA BENNISON • Cymbeline • RSC • 2003
Ishia Bennison has one of the most infectious laughs in the business: a deep, throaty gurgle that can have you giggling in an instant. She has been around longer than … Continue reading
Othello – RSC Live Broadcast
Originally posted on Culture and Anarchy:
Last night I went to the cinema to watch the live broadcast of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Othello. I think these live broadcasts are wonderful:…
Archive Interview • MARK EDEN • Take 2: Props & Autumn • 2004
Interviewing actor and writer Mark Eden is a fascinating lesson in what can happen by dint of circumstance and application. Eden, who is currently appearing at the Jermyn Street Theatre … Continue reading
Archive Interview • LIZA SADOVY • Alice in Wonderland • 2002
Liza Sadovy and I were at drama school together in the mid-to-late 1970s and it was evident then that she was a gifted musical actress. This was one of the … Continue reading
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Archive Review • ROMEO AND JULIET • RSC @ Albery Theatre • 2004
Designer Simon Daw has provided a simple cream-coloured box for Peter Gill’s production of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. He has decorated its flaking stucco walls with fragmented blue images of Italian … Continue reading
RIP Roy Heather [1935-2014] aka Sid the cafe owner in #OFAH
Please forgive me for any errors, grammatical or otherwise. I am writing this tribute through tears for I have lost my ex-husband and a good friend. Roy died on 3rd September, 2014, in Purbrook, … Continue reading
Quote • John Gielgud • Benjamin Britten
John Gielgud directed Benjamin Britten’s opera of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in 1961. During rehearsals he was heard to shout, “Will someone turn off that damn music.” Courtesy of Simon Trowbridge, author … Continue reading
Archive Theatre Review • CORIOLANUS • RSC @ The Old Vic • 2003
Japan in the early twentieth century — a turbulent place of military incursions and unstable social order. A state of transition exists as the power is shifted from the ruling élite to … Continue reading
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Archive Interview • Hugh Bonneville • 2004
Hugh Bonneville is not only a sublime actor but a charming and erudite chap with a fine line in drollery. He sounds a little wary at the start of our telephone … Continue reading
Quote • Hugh Bonneville • RSC
“I would still be [at the RSC] now if Adrian Noble had asked me to stay. I was in seventh heaven when I was at Stratford. I wanted to go … Continue reading
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