A Comedy of Errors 2

Grays Inn Hall (Antic Disposition)

This was a bit of a last minute one for me – I don’t know when I booked the tickets but I’d managed to forget I was going. And if I’d missed out that would have been a real shame*.

To sing happiness

I went back to Wilderness this year and again spent a happy hour listening to the Bookshop Band. Since coming home I’ve spent additional happy hours listening to their albums and noodling around their website – and now I’ve found their Shakespeare archive I’m even happier.

I’m going to advise you all to check out their songs (no matter what books you’re into, you’ll find something you like), buy their albums, and listen to this awesome song based on Richard II…

Wasteful war shall statues overturn

Two important centenaries have collided this year – 400 years back takes us to Shakespeare’s death, while 100 years transports us to the middle of the Great War. Surprisingly, one venue unites them – an unexpected corner of Bloomsbury.

Richard III

Almeida Theatre

 

Richard III is another one of these plays I will keep coming back to again and again – not just because it is put on so frequently, but also because I really love the number of possible interpretations which can be placed on Richard’s character.

Photograph by Alastair Muir