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    Shakespeare’s Sonnets – iPad App – from Iluminations Media

    Last month I recorded Sonnet 141 for an amazing forthcoming iPad App featuring Sir Patrick Stewart, David Tennant and Fiona Shaw.

    Produced by Illuminations Media, Faber and Faber, Arden Shakespeare and Touch Press:

    Faber and Faber, Touch Press, Illuminations and The Arden Shakespeare are delighted to announce that they are in the final stages of producing a spectacular edition of Shakespeare’s Sonnets for the Apple iPad. The title features specially filmed performances of all 154 sonnets by a stellar cast that includes Fiona Shaw, Sir Patrick Stewart and David Tennant. It also features the complete Arden notes, providing unsurpassed commentary on the poems.

    This digital edition follows Touch Press and Faber’s iPad app The Waste Land that presents T. S. Eliot’s great poem in an innovative and widely praised interactive format.

    Click here for the full Press Release

    Early 2012 – British Library CD, Venus & Adonis, Arden Shakespeare…

    Back from Nevada & playing the lead in the Contemporary World Premiere of Hamlet in Original Pronunciation.

    I’m about to finish curating a CD of extracts of Shakespeare in OP for the British Library, the first of its kind, which will be out in February 2012 on CD & download. See here for more details: Shakespeare’s Original Pronunciation

    And now, after 7 months of acting, three months of (mostly) writing…

    I’m currently adapting Shakespeare’s long poem Venus & Adonis for the Engage Programme out of Bath Theatre Royal, Bath Lit Festival 2012, & Roughhouse Theatre, which will be playing early March 2012.

    And I’m about to write a new series of books called Springboard Shakespeare for Arden Shakespeare, coming out September 2012

    Probably slightly more regular updates found via my Twitter feed.

    Wishing each & all an adventurous new year…

    Hamlet. In OP. In Nevada. This November… & a few other ‘bits’…

    Apologies for the lack of posting to this site in recent months…

    Unless you follow me on Twitter you may not know I was playing Demetrius in Iris Theatre’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream this last July, in the gardens of St Paul’s Church in Covent Garden, London.

    Nor that I curated a 70 minute CD of well-known – and not so well-known sonnets, speeches and scenes of Shakespeare for the British Library, the first of its kind spoken by professional actors, and out March 2012.

    I’m about to adapt Venus and Adonis for Roughhouse Theatre & Bath Theatre Royal… and very excitingly, will be beginning work on a new series of books I’ve been commissioned to write for Arden Shakespeare

    Nor indeed, will you know that I am about to leave for Nevada, USA, to start rehearsals to play Hamlet

    It’s going to be an Original Pronunciation production, the first for 400 years, and will open November 1st.

    I’ll be keeping an account and diary of the whole process – the first of which will be up very soon – and found via my Twitter feed…