Measure for Measure holds an awkward place in Shakespeare’s canon. Full of lengthy soliloquies, reflections on life and death, fraught relationships, it also features the comedic tropes of mistaken identities and works its way towards a neat marriage ending. The bawdy jokes abound, but there’s also speeches that wouldn’t seem out of place in Hamlet.Continue reading “Measure for Measure at The Marlowe”
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On Your Feet! at The Marlowe
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Director Kimberley Sykes talks about her production of As You Like It
Director Kimberley Sykes talks about her production of As You Like It, which will be coming to The Marlowe Theatre in January as part of a season of exhilarating Shakespeare plays bursting with contemporary resonance. What has influenced your thinking around the production? I think a big thing which has influenced my thinking on theContinue reading “Director Kimberley Sykes talks about her production of As You Like It”
A Taste of Honey at The Marlowe Theatre
Shelagh Delaney was only 19 when she wrote A Taste of Honey, first staged in 1958. She’d been to see a dull play in Manchester by Terence Rattigan and felt she could do better. She sent it to Joan Littlewood, along with a note explaining that she was something of a theatre novice, but hadContinue reading “A Taste of Honey at The Marlowe Theatre”
A Taste of Honey visits The Marlowe Theatre
A Taste of Honey, Shelagh Delaney’s taboo breaking play, written in the 1950s when she was just 19, is embarking on a UK tour – including a visit to Canterbury’s The Marlowe Theatre. This British classic is an exhilarating depiction of working-class life in post-war Salford, and offers an explosive celebration of the vulnerabilities andContinue reading “A Taste of Honey visits The Marlowe Theatre”
And So She Thinks 