There’s no risk that Rupert Goold’s production of Hamlet for the Royal Shakespeare Company might “lose the name of action”: it comes in at a rapid-fire two and a half hours, with the events of the play condensed into just one evening.
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Machiavellian politics meets military might in this bold and modernising reimagining of Shakespeare’s Roman drama.
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Welcome to a glam rock musical of infinite jest: Hamlet in space, with a green alien Polonius, airlock accidents, and a chorus line of floating puppets.
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A new musical premiering in Norwich is putting Shakespeare in space, with a ‘space-Viking-rock-opera’ take on Hamlet.
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Shakespeare’s tale of the roots of the War of The Roses gets zhuzhed up in this creative new production.
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Norwich Film Festival has announced a special screening of the Oscar-winning film Shakespeare in Love for its opening night, bringing a touch of cinematic history and local heritage to the big screen.
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A new show premiering next month mixes Shakespeare with the experiences of women from Great Yarmouth.
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Best-selling historical author Philippa Gregory will make her playwrighting debut in a play co-produced by Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds.
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Political despatches are no longer quite as bloody as that which befell Caesar in Shakespeare’s Roman tragedy, but we have certainly seen several ego-inflated leaders in recent times.
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There is always a temptation with Shakespeare to try to do something different: this version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream nominally sets the action around the Suffragette movement of the early 20th century.
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A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but does calling something a rose make it beautiful? This production claims to play with the Shakespeare favourite’s setting and genders – so does it still work?
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The Lord Chamberlain’s Men returned to Norwich Cathedral with a pacey and entertaining – but unprovoking – rendition of Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
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The National Theatre has announced the next production to feature in its NT At Home season of free streamed plays.
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London’s Shakespeare Globe has become the latest theatre to offer free performances online.
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If you’re going to mess with Shakespeare,
you need to be sure of your footing.