Brian Cox’s Titus Andronicus: “the greatest stage performance I’ve ever given”
Brian Cox in Titus Andronicus Earlier in the week an interview with Brian Cox (the actor not the scientist) was published in which he commented that the production of Titus Andronicus in the Swan...
View ArticleSlaughter in the streets: Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus
Desmond Heeley’s design for Laurence Olivier as Titus This post was always going to be about Titus Andronicus. But it was going to be about the designs for the 1955 Shakespeare Memorial Theatre...
View ArticleBlogging with Titus Andronicus
Stephen Boxer (Titus Andronicus) and Rose Reynolds (Lavinia)Photographer Simon Annand Last Thursday, 25 June, I attended an event at which the Royal Shakespeare Company invited bloggers to a...
View ArticleBlogging with Titus Andronicus, part 2
Matthew Needham (Lucius), Kevin Harvey (Aaron) At the end of last week I wrote about the RSC’s current production of Titus Andronicus and the blogging event to which I was fortunate enough to be...
View ArticleRemembering Sir Laurence Olivier
The statue of Laurence Olivier outside the National Theatre, London Friday 11 July 2014 is the 25th anniversary of Laurence Olivier’s death in 1989. By chance I was in the RST that evening and before...
View ArticleThe rain it raineth every day
The 2007 flood Over the last few weeks the news has been dominated by the dreadful and repeated flooding in parts of northern England and Scotland as a series of storms have swept across the UK. Cities...
View ArticleShakespeare in Padua
A view of Padua Just recently we’ve been experiencing cold, grey, depressing weather in the UK and we must all be thinking longingly of long, warm days spent somewhere exotic. It’s just the time, of...
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