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With all this sport about, you may be thinking that I have been neglecting my cultural attendances. You would be wrong - I just have...

Anja Harteros as Desdemona Actually, Verdi’s opera is called “Otello”, and Shakespeare’s play upon which is it based is - as we a...

Gasp! No more theatre for your blogger? Calm down - that’s not what the title means. It is, rather, the name of a play I...

Welcome to the 15th century I find I cannot leave the subject of Shakespeare just yet. I have lots more to tell you. Not about anothe...

beg, buy or steal.... With my visit to Stratford-upon-Avon and that wonderful RSC production of ‘The Merchant of Venice’ in my mind, I re...

Stage view Well that was absolutely fabulous. It is about time that I saw a performance of Shakespeare, here in the home of the Grea...