The Penelopiad

If RSC productions were to be likened to Royal Navy vessels one or two recent ones might easily have come under the category of Henry VIII’s doomed Mary Rose. Thankfully Maria Aberg’s new production of As You Like It  is a sleek HMS Dreadnought of a show: beautifully designed, thrilling, and, when required, highly dangerous. It’s also very funny, which the 1904 designer label battleship never was. Every element of this production is an extremely well balanced affair, with the actors...Read Full Story

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Photo: RSC Back in the early 1950s I was given a film annual that contained a feature about The Mudlark, a film concerning a young orphan who – in the 1870s - manages to get into Buckingham Palace where, after a bit of chasing around is brought before Queen Victoria. The old queen takes a shine to the young lad, gets him cleaned up and decides he can stay in the palace. Based on a true story it was a rather comforting yarn about a queen who, to me, had always looked rather sad. The piece...Read Full Story

Photo: RSC   Back in the early 1950s I was given a film annual that contained a feature about The Mudlark, a film concerning a young orphan who – in the 1870s - manages to get into Buckingham Palace where, after a bit of chasing around is brought before Queen Victoria. The old queen takes a shine to the young lad, gets him cleaned up and decides he can stay in the palace. Based on a true story it was a rather comforting yarn about a queen who, to me, had always looked rather sad. The piece...Read Full Story

Scientists have told us yet again how the Big Bang created the universe; they even presented a 'photograph' which looked more like an old foxed  mirror to me. No art or emotion. By contrast, on Saturday at Holy Trinity Church, the Stratford-upon-Avon Choral Society gave a beautiful performance of Haydn's The Creation. It was a heartfelt interpretation (using texts from Genesis and  Milton's Paradise Lost) of Haydn’s masterpiece.Written at the end of the 18th century this oratorio was an...Read Full Story