The Globe recently announced casting for its Ensemble productions of Hamlet and As You Like Ithttps://blog.shakespearesglobe.com/post/172822073468/casting-for-hamlet-and-as-you-like-it-announcedRead more... )

From an interview with Christopher Eccleston, on playing Macbeth:

There’s no doubt that [director] Polly Findlay wanted me in this role because of what I bring, the things we’re talking about. And without jemmying it in, there are definitely things I can access - about being very capable, but being overlooked. Macbeth is fantastic at his job. He ( Read more... )

I haven't the faintest idea why, but this old article on the Cheek By Jowl As You Like It brought me very near to tears:

All you need is love: Adrian Lester and the miraculous all-male As You Like It by Declan Donnellan ( Read more... )

I can't quite figure out how I feel about this review of Branagh's production of The Winter's Tale (and Harlequinade):

http://variety.com/2015/legit/reviews/winters-tale-review-kenneth-branagh-1201635920/

For example:

This time, ( Read more... )

AYLI, RSC (2013), 3.2 ( Read more... )

It's probably at least a *little* weird that I just got an eyelash in my eye, yelped "ow!" and then giggled and said, "eyes, that are the frailest and softest things, that shut their coward gates on atomies..."

But it distracted me until I could get the eyelash out, so I guess there's that.

In his essay on playing Touchstone for the Players of Shakespeare series, David Tennant remarks prophetically that he was pleased with his costume because it seemed like the right decision to put Touchstone into traditional fool's garb, "and anyway I've always liked long coats ( Read more... )

Over New Year's my friends and I were having a conversation about movies that feature female friendships where one of the friends is not dying. (Well, and about friendship in media more generally. I love friendships, I love watching people be friends, and I don't get nearly as much of it as I'd like. It's one of the things I love about As You Like ( Read more... )

So I'm pretty sure my current plan for section this week is a thinly veiled version of "I ♥ Rosalind and Celia." But oh well.

Jamie Parker is going to play Oliver this summer in the Globe's As You Like Ithttp://broadwayworld.com/article/The_Globes_AS_YOU_LIKE_IT_Cast_Creatives_Announced_Sharrock_To_Direct_530_20090420Read more... )