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Shakespeare Tag Archive

Interview: Shakespeare prize winner Emma Whipday

by • 9th September 2020

Iona Lowe talks to Dr Emma Whipday about her award winning new book....

Shakespeare in Lockdown

by • 27th April 2020

Harriet Metcalfe discusses Professor Julie Sanders virtual lecture on Shakespeare in the time of lockdown. ...

Review: The King (15)

by • 11th November 2019

Kate Dunkerton, reviews the Netflix original film The King. Is it a film fit for a king? ...

Fair Verona Re-Imagined: Matthew Bourne’s Romeo and Juliet

by • 13th October 2019

The classic story of boy meets girl, Romeo and Juliet is one of history’s most famous romantic tragedies. Having been dramatized numerous times for the stage as well as film and...

Looking Back: Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet (1996)

by • 9th October 2019

Ali Nicholls takes us back to 1996 and Baz Luhrmann's modern take on a literary classic....

Review: Theatre Society’s Much Ado about Nothing

by • 1st February 2019

While this review of Much Ado About Nothing contains a considerable amount of bias, as we are all well aware Maria Ansdell and Beth Rennie are some of Newcastle’s greatest...

400 Years of the Bard

by • 3rd May 2016

First off I was surprised at how full the Curtis Auditorium was. There was a lot of people, many I recognised from coming into work, so I plonked myself into a seat and avoided...