Electronovision: ‘the theatre of the future’
Oh to be in Edinburgh now that Hamlet's there. The Wooster Group's radical adaptation of the play has its last performance tonight as part of the official festival - it's sold out, of course, more
Oh to be in Edinburgh now that Hamlet's there. The Wooster Group's radical adaptation of the play has its last performance tonight as part of the official festival - it's sold out, of course, more
The question is, Is this the end of television as we know it? Henry Jenkins at Confessions of an aca-fan asks it with more acuity than most, highlighting a video (that I have embedded below) of an hour-long more
In the diary next week are two Hamlets. On Monday afternoon I am introducing the 1964 television Hamlet at Elsinore at BFI Southbank, and then on Wednesday I have a ticket to the Royal Shakespeare Company's new more
The Screen Plays season of television adaptations of Jacobean tragedies begins tonight at BFI Southbank. We open with a remarkable 1965 production of Thomas Middleton's play from 1621 Women Beware Women, which I have written about more
Grrrr! I know, I know that you should never respond to criticism, but today I can't resist a little rant. I am also by disposition a retiring individual not much given to trumpeting Illuminations' achievements. But take a look at more