RSC
The Constant Wife
★★★★☆ Enormously entertaining
The RSC’ production of The Constant Wife, by Laura Wade based on the comedy by W Somerset Maugham at the Festival Theatre until Saturday as part of a UK tour, establishes its tone immediately.
Matilda the Musical
★★★★☆ Huge energy
The return to the Playhouse of the unstoppable juggernaut that is the RSC’s Matilda the Musical after seven years, is certainly a cause for celebration.
Matilda The Musical
★★★★☆ Storytelling musical theatre:
Stories rule in the RSC’s brilliant production of Matilda The Musical in an adaptation which feels properly true to the spirit of its Roald Dahl original – complete with dangerous spikes and revolting children.
Titus in Iraq
Grads’ Andronicus steps into modern era:
The buzz has predictably focussed on the blood and the guts in the Grads’ new production of Titus Andronicus, which is at the Assembly Roxy to Saturday this week.
Tennant’s RSC Richard II to get Cameo screening
The Royal Shakespeare Company’s forthcoming production of Richard II, staring David Tennant in the title role, is to be live streamed to Edinburgh’s Cameo cinema in November.
Æ News – No Sorrow for Such Tweet
Twitter version of Romeo and Juliet up for two awards By Thom Dibdin Such Tweet Sorrow, the RSC’s twitter version of Romeo and Juliet which ran online in the Spring of this year, has been recognised with nominations in both the annual British Interactive Media Awards and the Royal Television Society awards. The performance, which […]
Thus with a tweet I die…
After an emotional five weeks Such Tweet Sorrow, the RSC’s social media production of Romeo and Juliet, is done. The Annals of Edinburgh Stage interviewed James Barrett, #suchtweet Romeo, about the experience. By Thom Dibdin It took its time getting off the ground, and sprang surprises on the audience, the performers and the production company […]
Death comes to Twitterland
Director Interview:
As Such Tweet Sorrow’s followers are rocked by the double deaths of Mercutio and Tybalt, the Annals of Edinburgh Stage publishes this in-depth interview with the production’s director, Roxana Silbert
Review – Such Tweet Sorrow
At last, it has all kicked off in Such Tweet Sorrow, with the first real piece of action after the production had been going for just four days. * * * * By Thom Dibdin Brilliant in concept, timely in its production and horrifyingly time-consuming to witness, the Royal Shakespeare Company’s latest offering to the […]
Such Tweeting Sorrow
Shakespeare Tweets Out
Romeo and Juliet is being brought into the social media revolution in a brave new experiment from the Royal Shakespeare Company called Such Tweet Sorrow.
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