Shakespeare Online. Life and work of Shakespeare - Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. Stephen Fry's Twelfth Night: this all-male affair is no one-man show | Stage. Thanks to the World Shakespeare festival, one of the Cultural Olympiad's many strands, this year has seen an astonishing array of landmark Shakespeare productions.
Some have taken the star-spangled and heavyweight route – like the BBC's triumphant take on the history plays, collected together as The Hollow Crown – while others have gone in a more experimental direction, like the RSC and Wooster Group's somewhat impenetrable Troilus and Cressida. However, it is difficult to imagine that Twelfth Night could be performed more effectively than it currently is at the Globe theatre, in an all-male production directed by Tim Carroll and starring Mark Rylance as Olivia and Stephen Fry as Malvolio. Do not take this as a review, then. I paid for my ticket back in February (a mere £5), and stood with the other "groundlings" close to the stage, but open to the elements. In other productions I've seen, a young, often beautiful woman plays Olivia. So how is Fry as Malvolio? Stephen Fry in Twelfth Night, Globe Theatre, first review. What's On Planner | World Shakespeare Festival 2012. Forests Director Calixto Bieito talks about creating Forests for the World Shakespeare Festival, and shows preparations for the production.
Contains some nudity. Read full story Shakespeare's Confessions Gillian Wearing, British conceptual artist and Turner Prize Winner, created the film Shakespeare’s Confessions with actors peforming Shakespeare's confessional monolgues to camera. Tom Piper on Much Ado About Nothing Lindsey Dryden’s short film captures Designer Tom Piper in the final few days of creating his set, before the play opens to the public and his design is revealed to the world. I, Cinna (the poet) free to view online Young people and teachers can now watch I, Cinna (the poet) online, at home or in the classroom as part of World Shakespeare Festival TV on Read full story Q&A with directors of Pericles Directors of Pericles, James Farrell and Jamie Rocha Allan, talk about their experiences working with an amateur cast and bringing the production to life. Shakespeare's Globe. Education. What's On. Arden of Faversham Actress Sharon Small and director Polly Findlay on the production of this classic play.
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