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Podcast. Barbara Bogaev talks Harvard Professor Marjorie Garber about her new book, Shakespeare in Bloomsbury, which explores how modernist writers of London’s Bloomsbury Group made Shakespeare their own.
Dame Helen Mirren looks back on one of her earliest television roles, playing Rosalind in the BBC’s 1978 production of the Shakespeare comedy As You Like It. She shares her thoughts on the potential that...
Podcast. An interview with Sara Topham in which she discusses how important playing the female lead in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet played a crucial role in her life and career.
A radical re-imagining of the story of Hamlet by Tamsin Oglesby. Rising political star, Harriet (Jeany Spark), is consumed by the question of how to avenge the rape of her sister.
Radio drama. A reworking of Shakespeare’s Hamlet set in contemporary Denmark in the style of a Scandi Noir. This version interweaves a police investigation led by detective Eva Holm into the suspicious...
Gregory Doran, former Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, looks back on the challenges he faced bringing together a cast of acclaimed actors - and even members of the Royal family - for his...
Dame Janet Suzman looks back on her role as Joan of Arc in the BBC’s 1965 adaptations of Shakespeare’s Wars of the Roses. Under the direction of John Barton and Peter Hall at the Royal Shakespeare...
Audio podcast. Episode six of a radio serialisation of Shakespeare’s Othello. Episode scripts were adapted and produced by Catherine Eaton and rendered into modern English verse by Mfoniso Udofia. The...
Audio podcast. Mfoniso Udofia explores the hard questions raised by her brutal translation of Othello, now adapted as part of the ‘Play On Shakespeare’ project to create more contemporary and accessible...
A new production of Kuwaiti-British writer Sulayman Al-Bassam’s reimagining of Hamlet, transplanted from Denmark to a modern Arab state in trouble.
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