It couldn’t last. The opening of The Taming of the Shrew and The Tamer Tamed at Stratford brought the RSC some of its best notices in recent memory. The arrival of its latest offering, Shakespeare’s ...

When a young novice nun is compromised by a corrupt official, who offers to save her brother from execution in return for sex, she has no idea where to turn for help. When she threatens to expose him, ...

In some kind of turmoil the Duke of Vienna (played by Antony Byrne, pictured right), having decided to leave the city in favour of a religious retreat, hands over to his trusted deputy Angelo (played ...

For the first time the Royal Shakespeare Company will tour three productions in repertoire to six regional theatres, playing for two weeks in each venue. As You Like It, The Taming of the Shrew and ...

In a terse review of what was probably the first performance of Measure for Measure – for King James I at Wilton House – his kinswoman Arabella Stuart observed “ridiculous it was”. This is a verdict ...

I have to admit I’ve had precious little involvement with the play before; therefore it was always going to be interesting to see how the story conveyed to me. I was not disappointed in the least.