The Independent
February 28th, 2009
Toast and I featured in Katy Guest’s The Week in Books in yesterday’s Independent:
Crystal tries his damnedest as an actor, scholar and Shakespeare’s biggest fan to demystify the Bard for doubting 21st-century theatre-phobics.
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Filed under Shakespeare on Toast | Tags: Akala, Barrie Rutter, Ian McKellen, Independent, Jude Kelly, Katy Guest, Lenny Henry, Northern Broadsides, Othello, Sir Ian McKellen, The Independent | Comments Off“Humourous, unpretentious and fascinating” — The Independent On Sunday
December 10th, 2008
Last weekend’s Independent on Sunday chose Toast as one of their Christmas Stocking Fillers, going as far as to say:
Filed under Shakespeare on Toast | Tags: Christmas Stocking Filler, Independent, Independent on Sunday, Schott, Shakespeare easy, Shakespeare made Easy, Shakespeare on toast, Stocking, The Independent on Sunday | Comments OffBen Crystal, a professional actor, wrote the zippy, anecdotal Shakespeare on Toast (Icon £11.99) to give the reader “the ability to go to any Shakespeare play and feel comfortable reading or watching it”.
He’s succeeded. It’s humourous, unpretentious and fascinating.
