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Category: Shakespeare

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  As You Like It at the Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch review ***

  As You Like It Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch, 26th August 2019 I don’t think I was alone in praising the first initiative in the collaboration between Public Acts and the National Theatre last year which brought amateur and professional creatives together to produce a piece of large scale community theatre. That…

  October 9, 2019
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  The Knight of the Burning Pestle at the Barbican Theatre review ****

  The Knight of the Burning Pestle Barbican Theatre, 8th June 2019 The Tourist has fallen embarrassingly behind on his documentation of a cultural life. Ironically because he has been on holiday. Unfortunately for you though this is not (yet) one of those countless dormant blogs, casualties of time and application.…

  July 27, 2019
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  A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Bridge Theatre review *****

  A Midsummer Night’s Dream Bridge Theatre, 6th June 2019 Go join the Shakespeare party down at the Bridge. Nick Hytner pretty much always nails the Bard and he has done it again here. Ignore the lukewarm reviews from the critics who seem to have got a little bit antsy with…

  June 30, 2019
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  Richard III at the Alexandra Park Theatre review ***

  Richard III Headlong, Alexandra Park Theatre, 17th March 2019 Right. Let’s get the gripe out of the way. Maybe in the smaller venues where this production will tour it might creep up to a 4* but Alexandra Park Theatre, whilst an undeniably superb space after the refurbishment, is just a…

  April 4, 2019
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  The Tempest at Greenwich Theatre review ****

  The Tempest Greenwich Theatre, 16th February 2019 As my dear old mum would say “sometimes Michael you would forget your head if it wasn’t screwed on”. Not for the first time the Tourist managed to leave the programme for this performance by Lazarus Theatre Company of The Tempest in a…

  March 8, 2019
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  The Tragedy of King Richard the Second at the Almeida Theatre review ****

  The Tragedy of King Richard the Second Almeida Theatre, 9th January 2019 Vain, frivolous, self pitying, introverted. Richard II doesn’t come across too well at the beginning of this play, Shakespeare’s first instalment of his histories that chart the origins of the “War of the Roses” and end with the…

  January 19, 2019
• Comedy Culture London Shakespeare Theatre

  The Merry Wives of Windsor at the Barbican Theatre review *****

  The Merry Wives of Windsor RSC, Barbican Theatre, 13th December 2018 Confession. This was the first time I had ever seen a production of The Merry Wives of Windsor. The Tourist can’t remember there being an opportunity, RSC or otherwise, in those few periods of his intensive theatre-going in the…

  January 1, 2019
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  Antony and Cleopatra at the National Theatre review ****

  Antony and Cleopatra National Theatre Olivier, 11th December 2018 Simon Godwin is a director who has shown he has a bit of a way with the sprawling masterpieces in the dramatic canon in recent years. Especially from the Bard. His recently opened Timon of Athens at the RSC, albeit with…

  December 30, 2018
• Culture London Shakespeare Theatre

  Measure for Measure at the Donmar Warehouse review *****

  Measure for Measure Donmar Warehouse, 22nd November 2018 BOGOF. An inelegant retail term, Buy one get one free. Which is exactly what you get here. Two stripped-down, straight to the point versions of Will’s 1604 riff on justice, told as mirror images with gender reversal.  So much gender swapping in…

  December 10, 2018
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  Macbeth at the Barbican Theatre review ***

  Macbeth Barbican Theatre, 15th November 2018 Is this a dagger I see before me … well maybe more of a kitchen knife … It is pretty tightly plotted (at least if you pare it down). It is quick by comparison to a lot of the Bard – half the length…

  November 30, 2018