Edgar, King Lear, Austria!
To Austria, to play Edgar in King Lear in a castle for a couple of weeks…!
I’ll post updates and photos from rehearsals and the show on my Twitter account…
Filed under General Shakespeare | Tags: Edgar, King Lear, Murau | Comments OffMy review of James Shapiro’s Contested Will, Independent on Sunday
My review of James Shapiro’s Contested Will, and Doug Stewart’s The Boy Who Would Be Shakespeare, in today’s Independent on Sunday:
For so long, I had not wanted to get drawn in to this unanswerable debate. No more. Now I’m out and proud. Shapiro’s is an important book, which goes a long way towards putting an end to the authorship question once and for all. Bring on the conspiracy theorists, I have met their nemesis, and its name shall be Contested Will.
So it was with eagerness that I turned to Doug Stewart’s The Boy Who Would Be Shakespeare, keen to delve deeper into one of the stories that Shapiro thrillingly covers in a dozen pages: the story of the forger William Henry Ireland.
Click here to read the review in full…
Filed under General Shakespeare | Tags: Doug Stewart, Independent on Sunday, James Shapiro | Comments OffWin tickets to the Globe Theatre!
After their sponsorship of my talk at the Hay Festival a few weeks ago, Cafédirect, the Globe Theatre and Shakespeare on Toast are teaming up!
All Friends of Cafédirect have the chance to WIN TICKETS to see Troilus & Cressida at Shakespeare’s Globe in London, AND a signed copy of Shakespeare on Toast!
In order to enter the competition simply become a Friend of Cafédirect by clicking here: www.cafedirect.co.uk/friends/newsletter/june09competition… and then get snapping…*
It’s free to become a Friend of Cafédirect, and from what I’ve seen, Troilus at the Globe will be quite an event…
Competition closes midday June 30th 2009.
*the Cafédirect blog will explain all…
