Following on from the instant success of the first National Theatre At Home streaming event on Thursday night (Richard Bean’s One Man, Two Guvnors, starring James Corden), it’s got me thinking about all the other wonderful NT Live screenings that I’d love to come to the small screen as part of this series. Over the next […]
Read More Wish list: National Theatre At HomeThe Show Must Go Online last week kicked off with The Two Gentlemen of Verona to great acclaim, and this week went headlong into the potentially problematic The Taming of the Shrew. I say ‘potentially’ because things are obviously a bit different now, compared with attitudes in Shakespeare’s time – but just because he’s written a play […]
Read More The Show Must Go Online: The Taming of the ShrewNot the usual way we’d all like to be spending World Theatre Day, but if you do want to mark it in some form then there are plenty of creative options available. News The National Theatre is due to begin a series of NT Live streaming events on YouTube; they will take place every […]
Read More Never Mind The Blog… Here’s World Theatre Day 2020Thursday saw the first production of The Show Must Go Online, a series devised by Rob Myles (who Mind the Blog regulars will recognise from Merely Theatre’s Twelfth Night and his insight into Shakespeare dramaturgy) which will bring a different Shakespeare play to YouTube each week with a rotating cast of actors. It aims to provide […]
Read More The Show Must Go Online: The Two Gentlemen of Verona“All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter!” Power and glory loom large in Lazarus Theatre‘s new production of the Scottish Play, with the associated pageantry punctuating the beginning, middle & end. This particular Shakespeare play has proved very popular over recent months, its eventually tyrannical title character and the ensuing civil war clearly striking […]
Read More Macbeth (Lazarus Theatre)I really enjoyed the last summer season overall (despite now being almost completely sworn off returning to the groundling life – people are just too rude & inconsiderate for me to countenance it as a viable option), and the 2019/20 winter season has just gone above and beyond so far. The Wars of the Roses […]
Read More Globe 2020: “This wooden O”In terms of total views, 2018 was a bit of a freak year – so 2019 hasn’t managed to live up to it. However, it has continued on the trajectory that we would have been on had Mind the Blog 2018 not been so ridiculously popular… And, as ever, I’ve been watching the stats page […]
Read More Most popular posts of 2019Whilst I didn’t see as many shows as last year, I don’t think I had quite such a good run of shows in 2018 as I have this year – so making this list was no mean feat. As usual, there were some which were ineligible for the list as I’d seen them last year; […]
Read More Favourite shows 2019Even though I’ve become quite tired this year, and have tried to keep some sort of balance in there, I couldn’t resist nipping out of London every five minutes to see what was going on in theatres across the country. I even managed to start my 2019 theatregoing with a trip to Paris, courtesy of […]
Read More Mind the Blog ‘on tour’ 2019“Blood will have blood.” When you’re performing in a restored Victorian theatre, the temptation to bring a bit of a gothic flavour to a production of The Scottish Play is understandable. The Shakespeare Project‘s inaugural production is currently in the middle of its run – they are performing Macbeth at the historic Salomons Estate near Tunbridge Wells […]
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