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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
Write a Shakespeare letter quest
Read a letter in our Sharing Shakespeare digital fringe festival Our digital fringe festival is linking up to the Letters Live...
May 3, 2020
Commedia class launches week of digital festival fringe activity
Sharing Shakespeare Digital Fringe Festival Week of great classes, activities, your video shorts to keep us all connected from Commedia,...
May 2, 2020
Media Release: Shakespeare in Italy launches charity fund raising page
Sharing Shakespeare - performance, outreach and education Shakespeare in Italy has launched its new Sharing Shakespeare Project...
May 2, 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
Sharing Shakespeare
Click on - to Get on Sharing Shakespeare is our new online digital platform. Find out all you need to know here about our events. #actors...
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
English Theatre Milan - a new English speaking theatre community in #Milan - una comunità di teatro anglofono a #Milano
ETM is a non profit association that aims to bring top quality #theatreinEnglish to #Milan ETM – A NEW ENGLISH SPEAKING THEATRE COMMUNITY...
Apr 16, 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
24 minute #Masterclass #edit with #director Bill Alexander and 4 former #DramaStudioLondon graduates on Bill's new version called A Merchant of Venice
The 4 actors working with Bill on the scenes are #CarolineOliver, #LachlanForlong, #OliviaGosling and #ConnorSheridan - ENJOY the video...
Apr 8, 2020
5 min #interview with #BillAlexander at #ThePlaygroundTheatre #London W10 6RQ on 02 / 03 / 2020 about his new adaptation called 'A Merchant of Venice'
Enjoy the short interview, folks! #Interview with Bill Alexander - insights into his new version
Apr 8, 2020
Short #video to advertise #RSCHonoraryAssociateArtist Bill Alexander's new production that he's called 'A Merchant of Venice'
This production will be staged when theatres reopen after the pandemic - 6 actors in a 90 minute modern dress version A Merchant of...
Apr 5, 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
Exploring Shakespeare: Backstory
“The delicate brush strokes – which in rehearsal are pure gold dust” The second in a series of blogs from our Associate Director Bill...
Mar 27, 2020
New blog on Rehearsing Shakespeare starts today
https://www.chronicletc.org.uk/blog/categories/blog
Mar 23, 2020
Wondrous comments from audience members after #BillAlexander's #Masterclass on his new adaptation called 'A Merchant of Venice', March 2nd at #ThePlaygroundTheatre
The #power of #Shakespeare in the hands of a #Master of his #craft - #video of Masterclass coming soon with actors #CarrieOliver...
Mar 14, 2020
#InternationalWomensDay with #Womeninprison.org.uk in #Woking on Wednesday March 11th 2020 - The Mayor of Woking's charity 2019 / 2020
Heart warming appreciation for Professor Charlotte Scott and actress Mary Chater who worked with some of the women on performance...
Mar 13, 2020
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