Being Shakespeare
From: Wednesday, 15th June 2011
To: Saturday, 23 July 2011
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Synopsis
Celebrate Shakespeare this summer with one of Britain's best-loved actors, Simon Callow in Being Shakepeare.
Callow brings to life Shakespeare's unforgettable characters and the real man behind the legend in this triumphant one-man show at the Trafalgar Studios.
In Being Shakespeare, Simon Callow joins forces forces with Jonathan Bate (Shakespeare biographer and editor of the RSC's Shakespeare: The Complete Works) and director Tom Cairns (Old Vic's All About My Mother, National Theatre's Aristocrats) to fill the stage in an extraordinary theatrical event.
Simon Callow has enjoyed previous success with his one-man shows The Importance of Being Oscar, The Mystery of Charles Dickens and Dr Marigold & Mr Chops. His other recent stage credits include [Peter Hall[’s 80th birthday production of Twelfth Night at the National and Waiting for Godot opposite Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, while his many films include A Room with a View, Maurice, Howards End, Four Weddings and a Funeral and Shakespeare in Love.
Folllowing a hugely successful national tour , Simon Callow's magnificent performance sets the West End alight for a strictly limited summer season so book your Being Shakespeare tickets today.
Our Review:
Michael Coveney - 23 June 2011
Simon Callow sidles into the “Seven Ages of Man,” rather like a penitent don, which is a very different approach to the one he adopted in Edinburgh last summer, and light years away from John Gielgud’s tremulous one-man Shakespeare show.
In Edinburgh, Callow came on all rather Bardic and bumptious, with a beard and a flowing white blouson, and a stage full of properties never fully explained. Director Tom Cairns has obliterated all the nonsense and, as if in celebration, the Trafalgar Studios have even installed new and much more comfortable red seating.
Whereas once he seemed to be claiming credit for Shakespeare – and don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed the show even then – now Callow is taking a more modest mediating role, elucidating Jonathan Bate’s careful and uncontroversial text with sudden infusions of poetry.
There are revelatory, grief-stricken speeches from King John and Venus and Adonis, the...
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David Baxter - 9 March 2012:
Third attempt at posting!!!! 24 hours after watching Patrick Stewart's mean-spirited portrayal of Shakespeare in the tedious Bingo, Simon Callow provides the perfect antidote with the return of his one-man show. Jonathan Bate's text is based around the seven ages of man speech from As You Like It, taking us through Shakespeare's life illuminated with excerpts from some of the plays, which show just how much one influenced the other. It also demolishes the snobbish absurdity that a grammar school boy from a small market town could not possibly be the author of works of such genius. Callow is a hugely engaging narrator and, with less bombast than he can be prone to, superbly delivers the speeches in character, ranging from Henry V and Orlando to Juliet and Rosalind; surely one day he is destined to be a great Falstaff. His superb affection and feel for the subject suggests that his true talent might lie on the other side of the footlights. Here's a thought - it might be unfair on Greg Doran, but why not Simon Callow as the next Artistic Director of the RSC?...
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Jonathan Bate (Author)
Ambassador Theatre Group (Producer)
Act Productions (Producer)
Tom Cairns (Director)
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