Period drama
Period drama has been a staple of British television for as long as anyone can remember. Classic novels of the past, including nearly everything by Charles Dickens, have been dramatised … Continue reading
October 21, 2020 · Leave a comment
Burying Shakespeare
First, the canal. Othello, thinks the designer, is set in Venice, so let’s have a canal, let’s start the play with Iago and Rodrigo sailing onto the stage in a … Continue reading
September 2, 2015 · Leave a comment
A Reader’s Diary, 8 October 2014
Barry Jackson’s Birmingham Rep is credited with staging the first modern dress production of Shakespeare with Cymbeline in 1923. Others followed, including Hamlet in 1925, and now a production of, … Continue reading
October 8, 2014 · Leave a comment
