2018-07-04 11:04
Review from Thomas Tyrrell that first appeared in Wales Arts Review:
Everyman | Cardiff Open-Air Theatre Festival, 2018
The plots of many of Shakespeare’s comedies work better if you… Read More
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2018-06-24 15:45
Everyman Theatre are back this summer at Sophia Gardens in Cardiff, until Sat 30th June.
Shakespeare’s Comedy of Love, Sex, Power and Revenge.
Money! Portia has it, Bassanio w… Read More
2018-06-05 20:33
Nadia Nadarajah as Celia and Jack Laskey as Rosalind in As You Like It at Shakespeare’s Globe. Image credit: Tristram Kenton
Having recently watched A Midsummer Night’s Dream p… Read More
2018-04-19 08:33
Something sent over from Sydney:
Shakespeare FuturEd is an international conference exploring the nexus of Shakespeare Studies and Education to be held at the University of Sydney on Friday… Read More
2018-02-26 16:19
Having shared the corridors of the Cardiff School of English, Communication and Philosophy with Dr Mark Truesdale for a number of years, I was interested in how he thought his book had emerg… Read More
2018-02-03 14:03
An exciting production touring Wales this March will be a new take on Shakespeare’s Richard III. The production asks:
In this reimagining of Shakespeare’s Richard III, how does… Read More
2017-11-13 11:18
Cardiff University’s Medieval and Early Modern Research Initiative is delighted to announce our next research seminar, which is to be given by one of our newest members and colleagues… Read More
2017-11-10 17:20
DARREN FREEBURY-JONES
Clock Tower Theatre Company began in 2013, conceived by executive producer Steve Bennett and associate artist Minty Booth. They have been running the theatre company f… Read More
2017-10-22 08:56
DARREN FREEBURY-JONES
Richard III is an early Shakespeare play, probably written just a couple of years into his career as an actor-dramatist, in which Shakespeare provides a perfect infusi… Read More
2017-09-25 08:39
The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama consistently provide thought-provoking and engaging stagings of Shakespeare’s plays – well worth going to check this out:
Thursday 19… Read More
2017-09-16 11:21
DARREN FREEBURY-JONES
Australian playwright Patricia Cornelius’s award-winning ‘Do Not Go Gentle’ depicts five elderly people nearing the end of the journey that is their… Read More
2017-08-04 14:14
Portrait of the Merchant Georg Gisze (Hans Holbein)
My journal article on ‘”Nature’s Fragile Vessel”: Rethinking approaches to material culture’ has been publis… Read More
2017-08-02 15:24
Exciting journal special issue call for papers
Early English Drama & Performance
Early Modern English Domestic Tragedy, A special issue of Early Modern Literary StudiesDeadline for subm… Read More
2017-07-22 15:13
DARREN FREEBURY-JONES
Macbeth is a mystery. Despite being one of Shakespeare’s most revered tragedies, the sole extant text found in the 1623 Folio appears to derive from a performanc… Read More
2017-06-30 16:31
There seems to be so much Shakespeare lined up for the summer it’s difficult to keep track. However, I’m going to have a quick look about and see what I can collect together her… Read More
2017-06-08 20:07
Taking Flight Theatre return, this time with their unique take on Shakespeare’s The Tempest.
Join the Magic Staff Liner Corporation and indulge yourself with a jaunt on the newest add… Read More
2017-05-26 18:08
DARREN FREEBURY-JONES
On May 20th 2017 I had the pleasure and privilege of attending a symposium on Thomas Nashe at Shakespeare’s Globe. It was wonderful to spend a day discussing the… Read More
2017-04-23 19:28
To celebrate Shakespeare’s official birthday, director and producer Yvonne Murphy has shared with us some thoughts on Shakespeare and the latest Omidaze (Oh My Days!) production of Rom… Read More
2017-04-02 19:04
A review by Dr Emily Garside
Hamlet is a play that is familiar even to those with no direct experience of the play – whether it’s a general knowledge of a much-adapted plot or t… Read More
2017-03-07 14:52
DARREN FREEBURY-JONES
A Midsummer Night’s Dream is probably my favourite Shakespeare comedy. I have fond memories of playing Demetrius in a production several years ago, and I know ho… Read More
2017-02-23 16:06
Some of my favourite productions of early modern plays have been by Act One (The Merchant of Venice, Macbeth etc), the Cardiff University Drama Society.
Dr Johann Gregory
Find out more
Foll… Read More
2017-02-20 20:11
Marvellous Pretenders are a newly formed professional theatre company, based in the Newbridge Memo.
The group, who are fronted by director and actor Suzie Rees, are the only professional p… Read More
2017-02-03 12:00
If, like me, you’ve yet to see the RSC Tempest, there is a chance to catch it in Cardiff next Tuesday. I was lucky enough to hear the co-producer Sarah Ellis talk yesterday in Cardiff… Read More
2017-01-24 12:37
This production is currently showing at the Sherman, Cardiff:
Europe divides in two. An act of teenage love could be the cause. Catherine of Aragon’s first wedding night with Henry… Read More
2016-12-03 15:58
Royal Welsh Colege of Music and Drama, Cardiff
Thursday, 1 December 2016
Director: Caroline Byrne
Review by @LucyMenon
The Two Gentlemen of Verona is considered to be one of Shakespeare&rsq&helli…Read More
2016-11-17 08:54
Thursday 1 – Saturday 10 December 7.30pm
Matinee Tuesday 6 December 2.30pmNo performances on Sunday or Monday
by William Shakespeare
Trouble is on the cards in Milan when best friends… Read More
2016-10-11 18:06
30th September 2016
Opera Companies:
Wales National Opera
Co-production of the Bregenzer Festspiele, Austria, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute as part of the Polska Music programme & Teatr… Read More
2016-08-31 12:00
To celebrate its 40th anniversary year, National Youth Theatre of Wales 2016 presents Shakespeare’s most famous love story about star-crossed lovers destined to end in tragedy. This… Read More
2016-08-26 16:26
This week Michael John Goodman launched the Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare Archive. This is a valuable resource featuring over 3000 illustrations from the four major illustrated editions… Read More
2016-08-08 11:13
This year the BBC has launched a super Shakespeare Archive, available for those in schools, FE colleges or universities. It includes all kinds of Shakespeare-related media, including televi… Read More
2016-07-25 19:30
DARREN FREEBURY-JONES
During Shakespeare’s time, children’s playing companies were very popular. St Paul’s Boys performed John Lyly’s plays, while the Children of t… Read More
2016-07-22 12:47
Darren Freebury-Jones
I must confess that I find it rather difficult to get excited about productions of Shakespeare’s tragedy of love, Romeo and Juliet. The play is one of the bard… Read More
2016-07-18 12:40
Everyman Theatre is back in Cardiff for the Open Air Festival.
Their Shakespeare productions include:
Richard II, 24th, July, 2016
Everyman Youth Theatre are delighted to return to the Op… Read More
2016-06-18 20:18
Review by Emily Garside @EmiGarside
Taking Flight Theatre are back for their annual outdoor Shakespeare, this year with Romeo and Juliet. Taking Flight are an inclusive theatre company, mea… Read More
2016-05-01 20:16
A review by Thomas Tyrrell (Cardiff University)
During a lecture on the medieval sources of Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well, Professor Elizabeth Archibald digressed so f… Read More
2016-04-23 10:31
A team of people from Cardiff University have put together a beautiful and poignant video to celebrate the 400th Shakespeare anniversary.
Sonnet 19 is read by Professor Damian Walford-Davies… Read More
2016-04-09 17:09
DARREN FREEBURY-JONES
A colleague of mine, writing under the pseudonym ‘Jack Cade’, has written a significant (tongue-in-cheek) piece on the growing field of Shakespearean Aerona… Read More
2016-04-09 16:15
The following paper was read by DARREN FREEBURY-JONES at ‘Authorship and Attribution in Early Modern Drama: John Marston and Others’, January 23rd 2016 at Birkbeck, University of… Read More
2016-04-01 08:49
The British Council and Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff have teamed up to co-ordinate a number of exciting events to celebrate Shakespeare.
From the facebook event page:
As we commemorate 40… Read More
2016-03-18 16:17
From the BritGrad team:
2-4 June 2016
The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham
We invite graduate students with interests in Shakespeare, Renaissance, and Early Modern Studies to… Read More
2016-03-16 12:02
A new issue of Journal of Early Modern Studies is now available online, featuring articles by a number of reputed attribution scholars. Cardiff Shakespeare’s Darren Freebury-Jones also… Read More
2016-03-07 09:22
An Auckland actor blogs about her experience playing Fluellen in Auckland New Zealand’s all-female Henry V, which is being performed at Pop-up Globe.
Auckland’s first all-female… Read More
2016-02-08 13:11
10-13 Feb, 2016
Llanover Hall
Act One Society
A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of Shakespeare’s most famous comedies. Revolving around three love stories there is plenty of room… Read More
2016-02-04 17:06
DARREN FREEBURY-JONES
I was sitting at the bar in the Wales Millennium Centre, waiting to see Omidaze Productions’ all-female version of Shakespeare’s Henry VI, when two ladies… Read More
2016-01-31 14:18
This Leverhulme Public Lecture is part of the Exploring the Past free lecture series hosted by Continuing & Professional Education. The School of History, Archaeology and Religion and C… Read More
2016-01-25 13:40
Kingston Shakespeare Seminar
Dr Paul Hamilton
My friend and frequent Kingston Shakespeare collaborator, Dr Paul Hamilton (a US citizen), was arrested on the afternoon of January 17, 2016… Read More
2016-01-21 18:45
DARREN FREEBURY-JONES
Not too long ago, I saw a production of Othello in London that was very much influenced by the film noir genre. While this directorial decision certainly took nothing a… Read More
2016-01-18 18:49
Tuesday 19 January – Saturday 23 January
Book Tickets
Duration: 2 hr 30 mins (including interval)
Rogue’z Theatre presents: Othello
By William Shakespeare
Jealousy and v… Read More
2016-01-11 18:53
An Auckland actor blogs about her experience playing Fluellen in Auckland New Zealand’s all-female Henry V, which is to be performed at Pop-up Globe in February, 2016.
1. Disco… Read More
2016-01-06 19:43
Omidaze Productions in association with Wales Millennium Centre
Henry VI, by Shakespeare
01 Feb – 20 Feb 2016
Tickets £12
Age Guidance: 9+ (No Under 2s)
“Omidaze have s… Read More
2015-12-15 08:30
Pericles by William Shakespeare and George Wilkins
Directed By: Dominic Dromgoole
Friday 11th December 2015
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
Review by Lucy Menon @LucyMenon
Lit by candles, the Sam W… Read More
2015-12-13 10:27
Christian Smith and the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies offer a short non-credit module open to all on the topic of the modern dialectic in Shakespeare’s plays… Read More
2015-11-26 10:13
Friday 4 – Saturday 12 December 7.30pm
Matinee Wed 9 December 2.30pm
by William Shakespeare
Directed by Caroline Byrne
It will have blood; they say, blood will have blood.
Returning f… Read More
2015-11-20 10:06
The latest issue of Literature & History (2015; 24.2), which is currently open access, contains a book review by Johann Gregory (Cardiff University) of Ben Jonson’s Walk to Scotlan… Read More
2015-11-10 18:39
abstract deadline (Friday Nov 13)
Kingston Shakespeare Seminar
While there are still a few days before the abstract deadline (Friday Nov 13!) for Shakespeare and the State of Exception… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Dr Ruth Ahnert, of Queen Mary, London, will be delivering a paper on Research Network Theory and Early Modern letter collections – specifically what network analysis can inform us abou… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Centre for the Study of Medieval Society & Culture Tuesday 1st April ‘Sleep and Romance from Chaucer to Shakespeare’ Dr Megan Leitch, ENCAP (Cardiff University) 5.15pm, Room… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Dates: 1 & 2 April Prices: £15 – £22 Concessionsu: £2 off Under 25s: Half price Two worlds collide in Filter&rsqu&hell…Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
On Thursday 10 April the British Institute of Florence organizes the 6th edition of the Shakespeare Graduate Conference on the theme Forms of Nationhood. The event is in collaboration… Read More
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