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Shake It Up, the improvised Shakespeare Show, is currently showing at The Other Palace in London from 10 July – 13 July. This hilarious and quick-witted improv show will have you in hysterics throughout the two hours. Imagine if the great Bard himself considered Southend on Sea pier or Glasgow as locations for one of […]
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Shakespeare in the Squares returns to London’s garden squares and open spaces this summer, presenting Shakespeare’s timeless classic All’s Well That Ends Well, by William Shakespeare. Directed by Sioned Jones, it runs from Wednesday 5th June – Friday 12th July. The Artiscape spoke to Kalifa Taylor who plays Helena in the production. Kalifa Taylor theatre […]
Directed by Sinead Rushe, Shakespeare’s Othello is re-imagined in Riverside Studio’s production to have three Iagos. With three actors playing lago (Michael C. Fox, Orlando James, Jeromy Neumark Jones), the soliloquies from the original script become a back and forth conspiratorial plot to take revenge on their General Othello, the Moor of Venice, who they […]
Othello is at the peak of his success: in life, in war, and in love until he finds himself utterly betrayed by the person he has trusted most: ‘honest’ Iago, appearing as one shape-shifting, corrosive force thrillingly dramatised by three performers. Directed by Sinéad Rushe and featuring live music composed by Michael C. Fox, this fast-paced […]
Twelfth Night, which is one of Shakespeare’s most popular romantic comedies, tells the story of a young woman Viola who is separated from her twin Sebastian. She believes him to be dead. She dresses as a boy and works with Duke Orsino who she falls in love with. Orsina is in love with Countess Olivia […]
She comprises of seven duologues by Anthony Clark loosely inspired by “The Seven Ages of Man” speech in Shakespeare’s As you like it. Performed over two hours by Safeena Ladha and Chenise Lynette where the actors take on several different characters. In the first short named She, a smartly dressed Coralie (Safeena) calls to the […]
Much a do about Nothing has been running all Summer at the Globe Theatre, London from 22nd of April and runs until 23 of October. What better time in this hot weather to get yourself to this splendid outside theatre. It’s April 1945, Northern Italy. Following years of war, Leonata (Katy Stephens) and her daughters […]
Performed at Iris Theatre’s Summer Festival at the Actors’ Church in the heart of Covent Garden, the production of Midsummer Night’s Dream opened on 5th July, with previews from 29 June, and runs until 13 August. Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream which first premiered 1 January 1605 is adapted by Sara Aniqah Malik to a 1996 […]
A Midsummer night’s Dream opens this week. Performed at Iris Theatre’s Summer Festival at the Actors’ Church in the heart of Covent Garden, the production opens on 5 July, with previews from 29 June, and runs until 13 August. Now in its 14th year, Iris Theatre’s summer season has become a critically-acclaimed, award-winning part of […]
Shakespeare in the Squares presents The Tempest By William Shakespeare. Sioned Jones directs Mark Carlisle, Laura Gomez Gracia, Indigo Griffiths, Phyllis Ho, Ellis Kerkhoven, William Shackleton, Wilf Walsworth and Sasha Wilson. The production, which tours to 18 squares across London in the most ambitious season to date, opens on 21 June at Arundel and Ladbroke […]