The Shows Must Go On is bringing us a Shakespeare related performance each week in November and this week it is Richard II. Premieres at 7pm tonight and will be available to view for 7 days.
Deborah Warner’s staging of Richard II with Fiona Shaw as the king stirred up a significant critical controversy when it was presented in 1995 at the National Theatre, and then later in Salzburg and Paris. Among those who recognised its originality and strengths was the critic Paul Taylor who praised the ‘gripping, lucidly felt production’ and Fiona Shaw’s ‘dazzlingly disconcerting… deliberately uncomfortable, compelling performance.’ For the screen version, Deborah Warner and production designer Hildegard Bechtler re-imagined Richard II as an innovative drama that was shot over a fortnight using film techniques. Playing alongside Fiona Shaw is a distinguished cast including Donald Sinden (Duke of York), Richard Bremmer (Henry Bolingbroke), Julian Rhind-Tutt (Duke of Aumerle), Kevin McKidd (Harry Percy) and Paola Dionisotti (Duchess of York).
The seek-and-find puzzle, created by London-based artist Berta Vallo for Sony, challenges you to find the 30 classic film titles hidden in this busy scene below. Click on it to make it bigger.
Some are straightforward and refer directly to the movie’s biggest stars or plot points but others are more obscure.
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To conclude this web series on our nature writing workshop with Caring Together, we are very pleased to be able to share a downloadable curated booklet, which includes the handwritten pieces and typed transcriptions, for everyone to enjoy.
We are especially grateful to the workshop participants for giving us their permission to share their fantastic work online. To download the PDF booklet, click the link below!
This Friday at 7pm The Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre will be sharing an online double bill from HeadSpaceDance
Choreographed by Luca Silvestrini of Luca Silvestrini’s Protein and starring former Northern Ballet dancers Charlotte Broom and Christopher Akrill, After the Interval and Before the Interval were performed at the Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre in 2012 and 2014.
As we can’t go out to the theatre, this is a great chance to enjoy some exciting dance from the comfort of your own home.
This weekend’s musical performance is a remembrance special and Sir Tim Rice’s musical adaptation of From Here To Eternity!
Pearl Harbor, 1941, where the girls sing “don’cha like Hawaii”, the men of G Company sing the blues, and where even on an army base, love and desire are never very far away. Sir Tim Rice’s epic new musical is adapted from one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century; a gripping tale of illicit love and army life which translates into a breath-taking, romantic and excitingly original show.
Available from 7pm Friday 6th November and for 48 hours
Being Shakespeare with Simon Callow
This is the first of a series of performances showcasing some classic Shakespeare plays – and shows inspired by the legend. It is available to watch until Monday 9th November (when there will be a new one to see)
Featuring a tour de force performance from Simon Callow, Being Shakespeare is a one-man show about the life and work of the world’s greatest playwright. Written by the renowned scholar Jonathan Bate, and taking its cue from Jacques’ famous ‘Seven Ages of Man’ speech in As You Like It, the drama traces Shakespeare’s life from his birth in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1564 to his burial there fifty-two years later. Weaving together this story with extracts from many of Shakespeare’s most famous plays, Simon Callow presents a vivid and very human portrait of the man and of the Elizabethan world in which he lived. Recorded before an audience during the play’s triumphant London run, Being Shakespeare is both a wonderful introduction to the author and a richly nuanced, funny and fascinating study for those who already love his plays.
