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Blog and News
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.
News
Director and Trustee #IqbalKhan on his new role as Artistic Director of #CommonwealthGames 2022 in #Birmingham
'Birmingham? It's a very pioneering, punkish place.' Article below in #DailyTelegraph http://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/714/rea...
Sep 5, 2021
#Brandnew 6 character version called 'A Merchant of Venice' adapted and directed by #Bill Alexander
Our #first production opens at The Playground Theatre, Latimer Road, London W10 on November 10th - #savethedate - more info v soon One...
Aug 20, 2021
#ArtsCouncilEngland funded #free #summerschool for 14 - 18 yr olds in #Brighton August 31 - September 3
The Apples and Eyes Project features filmmaking, acting, music and games sessions in Racehill Community Orchard, top of Wilson Avenue We...
Aug 3, 2021
‘We know that anger’: the return of #DavidMamet’s incendiary #Oleanna at The #ArtsTheatre
#Guardian interview with our Associate Artist #director Lucy Bailey https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2021/jul/19/david-mamet-oleanna-sex...
Jul 18, 2021
What's that? You're ready to see THEATRE? How about FUNNY THEATRE?
It's gonna help you laugh those lockdown blues away! Writer Mark Daniels has a show on @CamdenFringe Aug 2 - 4 @TheHenChickens Corona...
Jul 14, 2021
palpable hit! #Feedback, #photos and #videos from our 6th #summer school June 14 - 19 2021
Being together again in a theatre space felt as natural as #breathing Faisal Mohiuddin - Faisal talking about 2021 summer school Annette...
Jun 29, 2021
Winning playwright Mark Daniels' play will be on at the Hen and Chickens Theatre, Islington August 2, 3, 4
Corona Virus - A Great British Farce the winning entry in our spring competition 'Lockdown, Taboo and You' at the Camden Fringe Stand up...
Jun 3, 2021
Composer / Musician Sarah Sayeed leads 3 workshops at summer school June 14 - 19 The Playground Theatre, W10
In the Youtube video Sarah tells us about her 3 sessions Sarah Sayeed is a musician, vocal artist, composer, writer and workshop...
May 26, 2021
Actress #RakieAyola cites Shakespeare in Italy's Associate Artist Bill Alexander as her #mentor
The Anthony and Noughts & Crosses star now in #BBC1 crimer thriller #ThePact was interviewed in recent Financial Times article by Hester...
May 16, 2021
Actor Philip Cumbus to lead two-day workshop on #MuchAdoAboutNothing at #ThePlaygroundTheatreLondon
Watch Philip's welcoming #video and read the exciting #statement below on how he proposes to work with you, the #participants. Philip is...
Apr 30, 2021
Back by Popular Demand - Suzman Holds the Mirror Up to Nature
Online session Tuesday May 4 at 7pm Janet directed Hamlet for the RSC in 2006. We share passages, soliloquies, and monologues for an hour...
Apr 30, 2021
Corona Virus - a Great British Farce by Mark Daniels - absurdist, bravura black comedy that won our playwriting competition
See video below of Mark's winning entry - enjoy! Actors #LachlanForlong and #MartinNicholls star in Mark Daniel's comedy - pls see below...
Apr 27, 2021
Top directors, actors & practitioners lead London-based Summer School
Six-day long workshops both daytime and evening at The Playground Theatre Sharing Shakespeare Summer School 14-19 June, 10 to 4.30 and...
Apr 13, 2021
Shakes Birthday Week - Come Celebrate With Us
Cleo & the Boys: Dame Janet Suzman; If Music be the Food of Love/Free Your Voice: Sarah Sayeed BOOKING INFORMATION:...
Apr 6, 2021
Review of the second night of short plays entered into our Lockdown, Taboo and You Competition
See link to review by Simon Jenner Another great night featuring some of the plays short-listed in our Lockdown Taboo and You competition...
Mar 21, 2021
Lockdown Taboo and You (2) Short-Listed Plays
Come along and listen to some of the short-listed plays Following the success of our rehearsed readings of the four finalists in our...
Mar 15, 2021
#Welcome e #benvenuto! - the theatre director #IqbalKhan joins us at Shakespeare in Italy as a new #Trustee - Hooray!
We're thrilled to have Iqbal on the Board - he'll make an invaluable contribution given his acclaimed background as a director - please...
Mar 15, 2021
And the winner is - Mark Daniels for 'Coronavirus - A Great British Farce' - bravura, absurdist writing - KEEP THEATRE ALIVE!
In association with #PropsMentalHealth our #short #playwriting #competition final last night with 4 plays for the judges to choose from....
Mar 12, 2021
The Eleanor Rathbone Charitable Trust awards us funding for a new project at The Venus Centre, #Bootle
The Eleanor Rathbone foundation has awarded us a grant to work for a second time with women at #TheVenusCentre in Bootle, #Liverpool...
Mar 11, 2021
Finalists of the Lockdown Taboo and You Short Play Competition
Shakespeare in Italy is delighted to announce the four finalists in our competition Shakespeare in Italy is delighted to announce the...
Mar 8, 2021
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