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Welcome to our blog! We share regular news and updates about our company as well as thought pieces on theatre, acting, directing and the wonderful world of staging Shakespeare.
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Exploring Shakespeare: Actors
"good and truthful acting makes an audience glad to be alive" Shakespeare in Italy Associate Director Bill Alexander gives us his last...
Sep 13, 2020
Exploring Shakespeare: Hamlet's Proof
"every single line and thought has to feel like ice and fire fighting in their veins" In the second part of his blog taking Hamlet to...
Sep 7, 2020
Exploring Shakespeare: Hamlet's Act
'only theatre can show Hamlet the truth' Shakespeare in Italy’s Associate Director Bill Alexander turns his attention to 'Hamlet' in his...
Aug 25, 2020
Exploring Shakespeare: Twelfth Night 3 - Enter Sir Toby
'there is no good comedy without tension and the possibility of sudden reversal' Shakespeare In Italy presents the third instalment in...
Aug 12, 2020
Exploring Shakespeare: Twelfth Night - Sea Captain
'Behind every line of Shakespeare there has to be an intention on the part of the speaker' Our Associate Director Bill Alexander...
Aug 2, 2020
Exploring Shakespeare: Twelfth Night – Music and character
"embracing this imagistic illogicality to illuminate the character and his dilemma" Shakespeare In Italy Associate Director Bill...
Jul 19, 2020
Exploring Shakespeare: Twelfth Night - Embracing Elizabethans
'emotional details which have little to do with being Elizabethan and everything to do with being human' Shakespeare In Italy Associate...
Jul 11, 2020
Exploring Shakespeare: Twelfth Night 1 - Finding Illyria
‘finding ways to articulate the relationship between love and madness’ Today we are starting Part Two of Bill Alexander’s blogs on...
Jul 5, 2020
Exploring Shakespeare: The Rehearsal Room
'suit the action to the word, the word to the action' The last in this current and fascinating series of blogs from our Associate...
May 22, 2020
Exploring Shakespeare: Performance
'Seeing soliloquy as an interior event in which a character is overheard talking to themselves constructs an unnecessary barrier between...
May 17, 2020
Exploring Shakespeare: Elizabethans
"we have to feel the rawness of life as Elizabethans did without the cotton wool of modern comfort" Understanding the Elizabethans, their...
May 10, 2020
Exploring Shakespeare: Time
"In the Globe, dramatic Time expanded and created a form of drama that put the whole world on the stage as best it could." Continuing his...
May 4, 2020
Exploring Shakespeare: Age
"capture the spontaneity of personalities less ironic and less understated than ourselves" Our Associate Director Bill Alexander...
Apr 30, 2020
Exploring Shakespeare: Character and Narrative
"The art of rehearsal is to capture moments of potential change, when the direction of life hangs in the balance, when a character might...
Apr 25, 2020
Exploring Shakespeare: Character and Language
"It's never about what the actor can do to the verse, it's about what the verse can do to them." Continuing this fascinating series of...
Apr 20, 2020
#RSCHonoraryAssociateArtist #director Bill Alexander explains below about his #blog started here on March 23rd - #ShareYourShakespeare @theRSC
Preliminary thoughts outlined in Bill's new blog will be expanded soon "Each one of these blogs is just a beginning, a simple and brief...
Apr 18, 2020
Exploring Shakespeare: Design
"Shakespeare paints landscapes with language; he builds sets for you." Fast on the heels of his previous blog, is the sixth in this...
Apr 14, 2020
Exploring Shakespeare: Blocking - #actors #actorslife #rehearsalroom #rehearsalprocess #performingarts #ShareYourShakespeare @RSC
"In a way the objects are to a certain extent providing the subtext that modern actors crave, but is frustratingly absent from the text!"...
Apr 12, 2020
Exploring Shakespeare: Cutting
"Performance is an encounter between those who have prepared for the occasion and those who haven't. If you doubt - CUT." There has been...
Apr 4, 2020
Exploring Shakespeare: Subtext
"In Shakespeare, characters tend to use language to say exactly what they mean with as much detail and precision as their command of...
Mar 30, 2020
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