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Elizabethan Theatre

Posted on May 17, 2019March 2, 2022 by Heather Neill
There is nothing like an anniversary to concentrate the mind and here we have several Tudor-linked ones all coming together. Thirty years ago this month Dame Peggy Ashcroft obstructed the bulldozers i... Read More

The Price

Posted on April 14, 2019July 5, 2019 by Heather Neill
Another Brexit deadline missed (thank goodness). This may be catching: my posts are getting further apart, reports increasingly late. I’ve been delightfully distracted from blog writing: first, ... Read More

Life goes on

Posted on April 1, 2019July 5, 2019 by Heather Neill
These are politically interesting times – although it might be preferable to live in boring ones. A million of us shuffled – there was no room to march – along tightly packed streets... Read More

Metatheatre

Posted on March 16, 2019July 5, 2019 by Heather Neill
Metatheatre is everywhere these days, the fourth wall frequently breached. Actors, in or out of character, address the audience directly or simply remind them they are in a theatre, sharing imaginatio... Read More

Ivan Kyncl: In The Minute at the V&A

Posted on February 19, 2019July 5, 2019 by Heather Neill
Ivan Kyncl was a theatre photographer, a recorder of the stage for posterity, the chronicler of an era, but always capturing the moment. He was also a superlative artist. Ivanov at the National Theatr... Read More

The American Clock at the Old Vic

Posted on February 19, 2019July 5, 2019 by Heather Neill
Hold the front page: there will soon be more ladies’ loos at the Old Vic! The queue snaking across the stalls bar during the interval has been one of the theatre’s hallmarks for far too lo... Read More

Edward II, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse

Posted on February 18, 2019August 9, 2023 by Heather Neill
Tom Stuart was lucid and persuasive on Start the Week (Radio 4) this morning, talking about Edward II as king and about Marlowe’s play. Catch that on BBC Sounds and the production, in which he p... Read More
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