To whom should I complain? Should I tell of this, who would believe me? The number of women, throughout history, who have said some approximation of this to themselves is incalculable. Sport for Jove has just opened Measure for Measure in two very short seasons at Bella Vista Farm (December) and Leura Everglades (January). They could not […]
Recently I was delighted to spend some time in the recording studio with Sylvia Rosenblum, of Eastside Radio’s Arts Wednesday program, chatting about Shakespeare’s Women. We put together six ten-to-twelve minute episodes, broken down into: Shakespeare’s World, Ingénues and Witty Wenches, Queens, the Lower Classes, Shrews, and Magical Daughters. Now the full series has gone […]
Cyrano de Bergerac by Sport for Jove at the York Theatre, Seymour Centre Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Old Vic Theatre via National Theatre Live Damien Ryan’s adaptation of the nineteenth century play about the seventeenth century poet is such a treat for its unabashed revelling in words. Stoppard’s eternally popular work in response […]
Sad Update: the sale is over, and it’s gone back to the regular price. But it’s still a great time to ask your library to buy it! “When is it not?” I hear you ask. So true. But right now Palgrave is discounting e-books, so although I won’t be able to sign this version for […]
