The Stage, April 2014 The most recognisably modern of Shakespeare’s comedies, Much Ado About Nothing’s warring would-be couples who turn out to love each other really is a romcom for all our times. And Maria […]
The Stage, March 2014 In the programme to this inventive production of Twelfth Night, director David Thacker does a quick bit of mental arithmetic. Incredibly, this is his 29th Shakespeare production, and his fourth at […]
Copy: The National, 06/11/11 >> So, Shakespeare didn’t write some of the greatest plays ever committed to paper. Well, that’s the conclusion of Roland Emmerich’s new film Anonymous – and it’s caused a right fuss […]
Saw the trailer for Anonymous the other day, the Roland Emmerich film which recasts the age-old debate about whether Shakespeare actually wrote his famous plays into a political thriller. What’s not in doubt, though, is […]