Reinvention: rethinking gender and race on stage
"Marginalised actors should not just be shoehorned into pre-existing plays without any respect or provision for the stories they have to tell. To do so is to package diversity into commercially successful morsels that are digestible for largely white, middle-class audiences."
What Light Through Yonder Theatre Breaks?
This week,
we saw the death of theatre director Terry Hands, acclaimed for his founding of
the Everyman in Liverpool among various other theatrical, notably
Shakespearean, endeavours....
RSC Macbeth Review: ‘technical wizardry fails to bring any tension or magic’
Dodgy directoral decisions and acting leaves one foreseeing a dark future for this unconvincing RSC production
RSC Hamlet Review – ‘This is simultaneous creativity and destruction. To be or not to be.’
John Livesey reflects upon the Basquiat elements of this perceptive RSC production
