Dvd
Shakespeare: The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare’s Globe)
Tom Anderson (Curtis); David Beames (Vincentio/Tailor); Jamie Beamish (Tranio); Michael Bertenshaw (Gremio); Simon Paisley Day (Petruchio); Samantha Spiro (Katherina); Sarah MacRae (Bianca); Rick Warden (Hortensio); Pip Donaghy (Baptisa Minola); Patrick Driver (Pedant); Tom Godwin (Biondello); Christopher Keegan (Nathaniel/Servant);
"This is a crowd-pleasing production ... and the laughs come thick and fast" (The Evening Standard)
Shakespeare: The Tempest (Donmar Warehouse)
Jade Anouka (Ariel); Shelia Atim (Ferdinand); Jackie Clune (Stefano); Shiloh Coke (Sebastian); Karen Dunbar (Trinculo); Leah Harvey (Miranda); Zainab Hasan (Gonzalo); Jennifer Joseph (Officer); Marta Laird (Alonso); Sophie Stanton (Caliban); Carolina Valdés (Antonio); Dame Harriet Walter (Prospero);
"Lloyd's production - with its clever framing device ... - is a glorious reminder that genuine diversity on stage offers astonishing creative benefits" (The Guardian ★★★★★)
Shakespeare: The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Royal Shakespeare Company)
Mark Arends (Proteus); Michael Marcus (Valentine); Jonny Glynn (Duke of Milan); Pearl Chanda (Julia); Sarah MacRae (Silvia); Leigh Quinn (Lucetta/Outlaw); Keith Osborn (Antonio); Nicholas Gerard-Martin (Turio); Roger Morlidge (Launce); Mossup (Crab); Molly Gromadzki (Host/Outlaw); Simon Yadoo (Panthino/Outlaw);
"There's a lovely summery feel to Simon Godwin's nimble-footed modern-dress production of this early Shakespeare comedy; it's a stylish and confident RSC debut." (Evening Standard ★★★★)
Shakespeare: Three Tragedies (Royal Shakespeare Company)
Paapa Essiedu (Hamlet (Hamlet)/Edmund (King Lear)); Marcus Griffiths (Laertes (Hamlet)); Cyril Nri (Polonius (Hamlet)); Natalie Simpson (Ophelia (Hamlet)); Antony Sher (King Lear (King Lear)); Nia Gwynee (Goneril (King Lear)); Natalie Simpson (Cordelia (King Lear)); Hugh Quarshie (Othello (Othello)); Joanna Vanderham (Desdemona (Othello)); Lucian Msamati (Iago (Othello)); Jacob Fortune-Lloyd (Cassio (Othello));
"It is an utterly engaging performance by Paapa Essiedu." (The Times - Hamlet ★★★★)
Shakespeare: Timon of Athens (Royal Shakespeare Company)
Kathryn Hunter (Timon of Athens); Imogen Slaughter (Lucia); Salman Akhtar (Lucillius); James Clyde (Sempronius); Sam Pay (Ventidius); Debbie Korley (Alcibiades); Nia Gwynne (Apemantus); Patrick Drury (Flavius); Rosy McEwen (Flaminia); Riad Richie (Servilius); David Sturzaker (Lucullus); Anton Cross (Caphis);
"A searing central performance flips the gender dynamics as Shakespeare’s study of greed gets a ravishing revival" (The Guardian ★★★★)
Shakespeare: Titus Andronicus (Royal Shakespeare Company)
Nia Gwynne (Tamora); Stefan Adegbola (Aaron); Hannah Morrish (Lavinia); Patrick Drury (Marcus Andronicus); Martin Hutson (Saturninus); Dharmesh Patel (Bassianus); Tom McCall (Lucius); Luke MacGregor (Chiron); Sean Hart (Demetrius); Jon Tarcy (Alarbus); David Troughton (Titus Andronicus); Kristen Atherton (Nurse);
"There’s fantastic work, throughout, from Troughton, grizzled, grey-faced, buttoned-up and stiff-limbed – a loyal old warrior surviving battles abroad only to be betrayed at home, driven to clarifying madness by his blind adherence to a heartless state. He catches Titus’s rasping, ramrod arrogance, his crumpling up with agony, and the particular macabre pathos too of his wildly empathetic raving in defence of a slain fly: “How if that fly had a father and a mother?...”" (The Daily Telegraph ★★★★★)