I reviewed The Sonneteer at the Landor Theatre for Everything Theatre: Sebastian Michael was inspired to write The Sonneteer after a friend posted a sonnet a day on Facebook. Reading them sequentially made Michael see them as a story, rather than individual pieces, and his play focuses on those Shakespearean sonnets known as the Fair … Continue reading
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The Sonneteer at the Landor Theatre: Review for Everything Theatre
I reviewed The Sonneteer at the Landor Theatre for Everything Theatre: Sebastian Michael was inspired to write The Sonneteer after a friend posted a sonnet a day on Facebook. Reading them sequentially made Michael see them as a story, rather than individual pieces, and his play focuses on those Shakespearean sonnets known as the Fair … Continue reading
Macbeth in Abney Park Cemetery: review for Everything Theatre
I reviewed Macbeth in Abney Park Cemetery for Everything Theatre: Macbeth makes sense in a graveyard. The knell of death and otherworldliness in Abney Park Cemetery, which is also a nature reserve, makes it a natural place to stage the bloody story of betrayal, hubris, and remorse. Paul Linghorn’s direction makes particularly good use of … Continue reading
Macbeth in Abney Park Cemetery: review for Everything Theatre
I reviewed Macbeth in Abney Park Cemetery for Everything Theatre: Macbeth makes sense in a graveyard. The knell of death and otherworldliness in Abney Park Cemetery, which is also a nature reserve, makes it a natural place to stage the bloody story of betrayal, hubris, and remorse. Paul Linghorn’s direction makes particularly good use of … Continue reading
Review for Everything Theatre: Merely As You Like It at the Cockpit Theatre
I reviewed the Merely Shakespeare Company’s As You Like It at the Cockpit Theatre for Everything Theatre last week: The Cockpit’s ambitious summer venture involves a company of 20 actors performing a different Shakespeare play each month for one night only, with As You Like It being the penultimate in the series. The Merely Shakespeare Company … Continue reading
Review for Everything Theatre: Merely As You Like It at the Cockpit Theatre
I reviewed the Merely Shakespeare Company’s As You Like It at the Cockpit Theatre for Everything Theatre last week: The Cockpit’s ambitious summer venture involves a company of 20 actors performing a different Shakespeare play each month for one night only, with As You Like It being the penultimate in the series. The Merely Shakespeare Company … Continue reading
Perils of Titus
Yesterday I went to see Titus Andronicus at the Globe with an old friend. I must admit, Titus isn’t a show I ever particularly wanted to see. I knew the plot slightly from my long-held enthusiasm for The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) and from my friend Tom’s PhD on the play–he’s trying to work … Continue reading
Perils of Titus
Yesterday I went to see Titus Andronicus at the Globe with an old friend. I must admit, Titus isn’t a show I ever particularly wanted to see. I knew the plot slightly from my long-held enthusiasm for The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) and from my friend Tom’s PhD on the play–he’s trying to work … Continue reading
In a Merry Hour
DON PEDRO Your silence most offends me, and to be merry best becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in a merry hour. BEATRICE No, sure, my lord, my mother cried; but then there was a star danced, and under that was I born. Much Ado About Nothing, II.i Continue reading
The Arras and I
If it has not yet come to your attention, I’ve developed a mild obsession with the word ‘arras’. I don’t mean the town in France, or the WordPress theme, or the Belgian cyclist, but that thing Polonius hides behind right before Hamlet stabs him. I don’t know what it is exactly that amuses me so. … Continue reading
In a Merry Hour: Caitlin E McDonald 