Mind the Advent 2020

After a break in 2019, I decided to revive #MindTheAdvent for 2020 – and of course focused on the array of online theatre that proliferated from March onwards… #MindTheAdvent Day 1: I have to begin with the show that started it all… @TSMGOnlineLive's The Two Gentlemen of Verona! Little did we all know how TSMGO would take […]

The Show Must Go Online: “Very proud of our 50/50 gender split and diverse casting”

People get incredibly excited about casting announcements, but very rarely do they trace things back to the people who put these casts together. The tide now may (finally) be turning, however, as several awards ceremonies now have added prizes for casting – such as BAFTA in both its film and television awards (Shayna Markowitz winning […]

The Show Must Go Online: Hamlet

If you thought last week’s alumni As You Like It was spectacular, The Show Must Go Online has gone one step further this week for Hamlet – introducing an alumni allstar special featuring a global cast of actors from the entire project so far. I’ve seen quite the range of Hamlets, from the sublime (Andrew Scott-led Almeida production at […]

#MindTheBard 2020: “Who’s there?” – Hamlet preview

Student Prince Hamlet returns to Elsinore upon his father’s death, only to see his uncle Claudius take the throne and marry Gertrude (Hamlet’s mother). Meanwhile, castle guards are convinced they’ve seen the ghost of old King Hamlet and inform Horatio, who decides he must tell his friend Hamlet; following a one-to-one with the ghost, Hamlet […]

The Show Must Go Online: Richard III

Since its first performance on 19 March, The Show Must Go Online has become a permanent fixture. To the delight of us regulars, this week’s production of Richard III was manned by an allstar cast, with actors from previous productions being invited back to either reprise a role from the Henry VI trilogy or take on an […]

The Show Must Go Online: “Every single week gets more inventive!”

Last night was a first for The Show Must Go Online, as they welcomed back alumni from previous shows in the series for this week’s production of Richard III. I think I speak for most (if not all) of the regular audience members when I say that we’ve become rather attached to the team and all […]

The Show Must Go Online: Henry VI, part one

Before George Lucas, there was William Shakespeare. And before Game of Thrones, there were the Henry VI plays. You might presume that all of the history plays were written in chronological order, but Shakespeare in actual fact began with Henry VI and came back to his other Henriad later (much like the original Star Wars trilogy […]