Review of RSC’s Feb/March 2020 season at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham ‘Measure for Measure’ ‘As You Like It’ ‘The Taming of the Shrew’

I came to these productions rather late. I’d read the reviews and listened to the feedback from those who’d either seen them in Stratford or in the cinema as...

What Boris should have learned from Shakespeare: aspects of leadership in The Tempest, Antony and Cleopatra and Measure for Measure.

Whatever our political views, I am sure we can all agree that Boris Johnson has been an extraordinary phenomenon in the public life of this nation. Only a fe...

Nottingham Shakespeare Society

March 4th 2020

Henry IV Part I: Talk by Lisa Hopkins Sheffield Hallam University

Review by Julia Pirie

Professor Hopkins’ talk made me want to apply for a PhD at Sheffield Hallam on the spot! She is a great speaker: hugely well informed; articulate and engross...

Nottingham Shakespeare Society

February 4th 2020

‘Two Potential Marriages and What Might be a Funeral’. A talk on ‘Much Ado about Nothing’ by Anthony Rice

Review by Julia Pirie

Anthony began by considering the kind of titles Shakespeare gave the plays written between 1598-1600. He was well-e...

Nottingham Shakespeare Society

January 21st ‘Coriolanus’ – a reading

Commentary by Julia Pirie

At roughly 3,824 lines long, ‘Coriolanus’ is only about 200 lines shorter than Shakespeare’s longest play, ‘Hamlet’. At an estimate of 1 000 lines an hour reading time, both these, and many other of...