The Frontline
The Frontline is a big and a bold bit of theatre. There’s ribald, racy language, a pair of star-crossed lovers, music, mayhem and a lot of courageous playing to the crowd. Outside the tube on a...
View ArticleHelen
Helen ran off with Paris to Troy, right? Wrong. Well, wrong according to Euripides’ Helen, which tells a very different version of the famous ancient myth. Helen is in Egypt, spirited away by the...
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Troilus and Cressida
To say that Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida is a play doomed to fail on stage is never an overstatement. Directors, and actors alike, are faced with textual obstacles: lengthy monologues, a cluster...
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Henry VIII
It’s not every day that you get to hear a Shakespeare play (or at least a play partly by Shakespeare) for the first time. So a new production of the little-performed Henry VIII at Shakespeare’s Globe...
View ArticleHenry IV, part 1
Looks like it might be a good summer for plays with Henry in the title at Shakespeare’s Globe. Hard on the heels of a powerful Henry VIII comes the first instalment of Dominic Dromgoole’s Henry IV, a...
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