The Show Must Go Online: The Merchant of Venice

From unconventional history play to one of the Bard’s more problematic offerings, The Show Must Go Online followed up King John with The Merchant of Venice (the next alumni edition of the series). This “singularly powerful and problematic play” came with the following trigger warnings: institutional & individual acts of racism & anti-semitism in almost every scene, […]

The Show Must Go Online: King John

After two weeks of romance and flights of fancy, The Show Must Go Online was back in historical territory once more, with King John following hot on the heels of a truly memorable production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. It’s a rarely performed play; I’ve only seen it once before, in a slightly odd production that disjointedly […]

The Show Must Go Online: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

I’m afraid Shakespeare in Love got it wrong on several counts – one of which is demonstrated here by The Show Must Go Online swiftly following up Romeo & Juliet with the perennially popular A Midsummer Night’s Dream. On paper a straightforward leap from tragedy to comedy, but I think you’ll find it’s a little more complicated than that… […]

The Show Must Go Online: Romeo & Juliet

From historical tragedy to fictional tragedy, as The Show Must Go Online follows up their Richard II with Romeo & Juliet. I’ve seen far too many productions of this play, really (and would have ended up seeing up to three more around now – at the Globe, National & Regent’s Park Open Air Theatres – […]

The Show Must Go Online: Richard II

After a bit of a break, The Show Must Go Online was firmly back in history mode last week, as it was time for the beginning of Shakespeare’s second tetralogy in Richard II. Not quite as much bloodshed as the previous set of histories that we’ve seen – more posturing and challenging than anything – and […]

The Show Must Go Online: Love’s Labour’s Lost

Thankfully for The Show Must Go Online, Shakespeare decided to keep things quite light for two consecutive plays – we were spared bloodshed once again with Love’s Labour’s Lost following hot on the heels of The Comedy of Errors. Not that a bit of onscreen/onstage bloodshed is a bad thing (my weekly Tarantino viewings are still going […]

The Show Must Go Online: “Exactly what the world needs right now”

Never have the words “all the world’s a stage” felt more apt. Thanks to initiatives such as The Show Must Go Online, global audiences are getting the chance to connect with Shakespeare in a way they never have before. When faced with the closure of theatres across the world, it seemed unfathomable that brand new […]

The Show Must Go Online: The Comedy of Errors

After weeks of non-stop bloodshed, The Show Must Go Online went headlong into comic mode last week, following up their alumni production of Richard III with an excellent version of The Comedy of Errors. Though the series began with two plays that are technically comedies (The Two Gentlemen of Verona and The Taming of the Shrew), they […]

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 […]