Actor, Adrian Lester is Cyrano de Bergerac An RSC production at The Swan Theatre 2025 Photograph Marc Brenner ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Title: Cyrano de Bergerac Written by Edmond Rostand Directed and co-adapted by Simon Evans Co-adaptor Debris Stevenson Written over a century ago and prem

Actors Tom Mothersdale (Angelo) Adam James (Duke Vincentio) and Sion Pritchard (Escalus) Measure For Measure at The Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford Upon Avon. Photograph by Helen Murray Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Measure For Measure by William Shakespeare Directed by Emily Burns Overview Duke Vincentio decides to dodge the heat of having to deal with a breaking news scandal and so appoints, Angelo in a deputy role and makes himself scarce. However, he seeks out Friar Peter and tells

less observed traditionally, but wonderfully variegated

Cast of Much Ado About Nothing. The RSC Photograph Marc Brenner Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare Directed by Michael Longhurst 'This review has much to unwrap!' Longhurst has concocted a modern day version of Much Ado [...] and as the audience files in and are locating their seats they are exposed to a media style presentation of a full on championship style football tournament. Claudio scores a hat-trick and the commentary and screens celebrate t

Luke Thallon (Hamlet) HAMLET RSC 2025 Photography by Marc Brenner ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ HAMLET   Directed by Rupert Goold Overview It's 1912 and on the deck of an ocean liner a Danish King lies dead under a draped flag of his country. Dignified respects are delivered before his body is cast into the dark and squally ocean waters.  Prince Hamlet, while in mourning for his father feels bitter that his mother, Gertrude had hastily married his father's successor, uncle Claudius. Hamlet's gasp

Demetri Goritsas (Sir Andrew) Joplin Sibtain (Sir Toby) Daniel Millar (Fabian) and forefront, Samuel West (Malvolio) The Royal Shakespeare Theatre Twelfth Night 2024/2025 Photograph by Helen Murray ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Directed by Prasanna Puwanarajah. A mid-twentieth century setting for this version and though always a challenge to our contemporary culture Twelfth Night  still endures as a performance piece. The play's key themes include disguise, cross dressing, concealment and mistaken

John Douglas Thompson as Othello and Juliet Rylance as Desdemona Othello  Royal Shakespeare Theatre 2024 Directed by Tim Carroll Photograph by Rohan Persson ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Partially set in Venice and in Cypress this authentic version of Othello  - directed by Tim Carroll is a genius RSC production. The male contingents of the play are mainly officers or noblemen/religious representatives. The Venetian senator, Brabantio cannot bear the idea of daughter, Desdemona being married to the

A classic by Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) written during the Restoration Period of English history, The School For Scandal premiered at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on 08 May 1777.

Samantha Spiro (Mistress Meg Page) and Siubhan Harrison (Mistress Alice Ford)  The Merry Wives of Windsor The Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Summer 2024 Photograph : Manuel Harlan 'So many superlatives can be used to describe the company's coming together to deliver this fine production of The Merry Wives of Windsor .' Debra Hall, critic (2024) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ We must agree with the director when she says that: “ The Merry Wives of Windsor is one of Shakespeare's most underrated plays [..

Rosie Sheehy as Puck  A Midsummer Night's Dream Royal Shakespeare Theatre 2024 Photograph Pamela Raith (c) RSC A Midsummer Night's Dream  The Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford Upon Avon (until 30 March 2024) Directed by Eleanor Rhode ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Using a popular French phrase to describe key elements of this production of The Bard's A Midsummer Night's Dream  seems a little out of place, but the direction and input of illusion designer, John Bulleid, definitely adds a certain 'je