Shakespeare: The Man from Stratford
From: Thursday, 5th August 2010
To: Monday, 30 August 2010
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Synopsis
Shakespeare is the greatest writer the world has ever known. He is the man who created the cleverest comedies and most towering tragedies in our literature, who conceived characters as consummate as King Lear, Macbeth and Othello and as savvy as Puck and Touchstone and whose numerous witty aphorisms have become part of everyday speech. But we know nothing about him. Or do we?
Our Review:
Michael Coveney - 8 August 2010
Fear not, Simon Callow is not “playing” Shakespeare; he is “presenting” him in a highly entertaining journey round the man and his plays, rather like a well informed tour guide.
Scripted by scholar Jonathan Bate and dressed in a black velvet suit with a white shirt, Callow frames the biographical outline in a structure of the seven ages of man, with a few props and some ill-advised projections.
There are no radical speculations, just an insistently intelligent, neatly turned account of how a grammar school boy learned about the classics, the theatre of life and of war, and how he progressed from being a play fixer to a play maker.
Shakespeare’s profound humanity, transformed by genius, in matters of grief, love and patriotism, is illustrated in speeches from King John, As You Like It, Henry V...it’s take-away Bard, a reader’s digest, but shot through with a deep compassion and a compelling desire to communic...
Cast
Creative
Jonathan Bate (Author)
Howard Panter (for Ambassador Theatre Group (Producer)
Assembly Theatre (Producer)
Tom Cairns (Director)
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