A meeting of minds. JAMES SWANTON serves up the theatrical fruits of half an hour with the hallowed Callow.
JAMIE MATHIESON challenges his readers to fisticuffs and asserts an uncomfortable truth: Shakespeare isn’t cool.
THE THEATRE GUIDE DOG decides it’s time for giving some awards to some plays.
GENEVIEVE GAUNT gives us a behind the scenes glimpse at the Pembroke Players’ Shakespeare tour in Japan, including Gaga-related antics and finding Japan’s smallest woman.
LEO PARKER-REES isn’t sure if even a children’s charity is worth this level of pain.
KIERAN CORCORAN delights in double dollops of delectable duologuing deliciousness.
THE THEATRE GUIDE DOG prophesies theatre to come. And is having suspicious food cravings. WHAT COULD THIS MEAN?
Was Shakespeare a fraud? Who cares, says ELLIE CHAN; the Anonymous still makes great watching.
LEO PARKER REES finds himself washed up on a shore of mediocrity. Pleasingly, his brother was there too.
Is it time to ditch fidelity and find yourself an affair? FREYA BERRY on the age of the super injunction.
MATILDA WNEK finds a story of woe – but an inconsistent one – in an ADC production that hasn’t the vision to take its text all the way.
MATILDA WNEK is frustrated by the storytelling strategy of a production that is less than the sum of its parts.
MATILDA WNEK revels in the revels of a production which reveals what’s been there all along. Awwww.
KIERAN CORCORAN talks to expert director CARL HEAP, who is directing The Marlowe Society’s production of ‘Much Ado About Nothing’. And has a bit of an obsession with oranges.
The Theatre Guide Dog broke out of jail too, but still took the time to give you the theatre fix you crave. He’s so loyal it might as well be proverbial.
MATILDA WNEK: ‘Student theatre’ is dogged with associations of pretension, vacuity, talentless posing and dull or overambitious interpretations of classic texts, much more fiercely than unprofessional versions of other art forms.
Kieran Corcoran