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Edgar, King Lear, Austria!

Ben — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 05:38:04 +0000

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…

My review of James Shapiro’s Contested Will, Independent on Sunday

Ben — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 12:52:57 +0000

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…

Win tickets to the Globe Theatre!

Ben — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:19:48 +0000

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…