All entries for Thursday 24 April 2008

Coming up: May–June

I've had a couple of weeks off since my last show, but have plenty coming up starting tomorrow, so thought I'd flag up a few of the highlights:

National Theatre of Scotland's Black Watch tomorrow at Warwick Arts Centre.

The critically-acclaimed Hamlet starring Jamie Ballard and directed by Jonathan Miller on Saturday at the Tobacco Factory

Cheek by Jowl's fabulous Russian ensemble with Boris Gudonov in early May at Warwick Arts Centre

A student production of Sarah Kane's 4.48 Psychosis the same week at the CAPITAL Centre.

The RSC's The Taming of the Shrew directed by Conall Morrison, who despite a lot of people's fears is a really fascinating director.

Troilus and Cressida at the Barbican, Cheek by Jowl's English production for the year.

A very exciting-looking major production of Middleton's The Revenger's Tragedy at the National.

A student educational project exploring Stoppard's Arcadia, also at CAPITAL.

The always incredible DV8 with To Be Straight With You at Warwick Arts Centre (their programme is particularly good this season!).

A full scale WUDS production of Macbeth at Warwick Arts Centre.

The Globe's King Lear, prior to the rest of their season kicking off.

Footsbarn bringing their huge tent to Warwick for A Midsummer Night's Dream.

The Warwick Student Arts Festival is doing several interesting plays this year - I'll be making time for an open-air The Tempest and a pared-down As You Like It, with hopefully time to check out some of the other work as well.

Unfortunately, it looks like I'll be missing the Young Rep's production of Henry VI Part III in Birmingham, as I'll be in the US for most of the dates, but am going to keep trying for returns for the one night I could potentially go.

I'm also toying with going to see Theatre Set-Up's All's Well That Ends Well when it arrives in Stratford in June, simply because I've yet to see a full text version of that play.

So, plenty of Shakespeare about at the moment, not enough other theatre sadly but then I'm not made of money! Any obvious must-sees I've missed for the May-June period?

Peter Kirwan : 24 Apr 2008 10:34 |  Tags: Thoughts |  Comments (1) |  Close comments |  Report a problem