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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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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
#Masterclass video with #BillAlexander at #PlaygroundTheatre March 2nd 2020 on #TheMerchantofVenice just before lockdown
With #DramaStudio graduates #CarolineOliver #OliviaGosling #LachlanForlong #ConnorSheridan In preparation for Bill Alexander's production...
Mar 7, 2021
‘Daffodils, that come before the swallow dares, and take the winds of March with beauty’
We have a spring in our step and are feeling as mad as March hares with exciting activities to keep you buzzing, creative and connected...
Mar 1, 2021
#BBCNewnight interview with actor #CyrilNri re: new visa requirements for theatre professionals working in #EU
An interview with actor #CyrilNri re: current bureaucratic requirements for theatre professionals and musicians working in #EU A letter...
Feb 17, 2021
#DailyTelegraph article ' Feeling blue? You need some Shakespeare ' by #ClaireAllfree 05/02/2021
The therapeutic qualities of our greatest playwright can offer solace in our current crisis An article by journalist Claire Allfree in...
Feb 12, 2021
Play writing competition Lockdown Taboo and You is now launched!
£200 prize for winning entry Our Playwriting Competition is now open! Please send your entries to collette@shakespeareinitaly.org.uk with...
Feb 9, 2021
#Workshop with #DameJanetSuzman Feb 8th - Shakespeare and Manias
This will explore #melancholy and #mania focusing on the perennially Eeyorish Jaques in As You Like It & the unrepentent psychopath Iago...
Feb 8, 2021
#playwrighting #tips shared with us by #DrEmilyGarside for #competition 'Lockdown, Taboo and You
After her excellent workshop on #February 1st on #playwrighting, Emily has shared a pdf stuffed full of #helpful #advice Dr Emily Garside...
Feb 4, 2021
#French born and #DramaStudioLondon trained actress Lena Robin as #Portia
Lena and #AssociateDirector Bill Alexander working on Portia's first scene from his new version called #AMerchantofVenice #Portia with...
Feb 4, 2021
Snacking on Shakespeare - #testimonials from #over50's to combat #isolation & #loneliness with #GettingTogetherMatters
#Testimonials for SNACKING ON SHAKESPEARE with Getting Together Matters, part of #VolunteeringMatters UK charity no 291222 In autumn...
Feb 2, 2021
#Lockdown #TabooandYou #Workshops and #PlaywritingCompetition
#DameJanetSuzman: Shakespeare and Manias Workshop & #DrEmilyGarside : Creative writing workshop laywriting Competition ‘Lockdown, Taboo...
Jan 25, 2021
Festive rendition of #TwastheNightbeforeChristmas with playreading group and #JohnNettles
#GettingTogetherMatters playreading group for #over50's from yesterday's online Christmas party for #VolunteeringMatters volunteers The...
Dec 18, 2020
Behind the Scenes - #RehearsingShakespeare with Bill Alexander our Associate Director and #RSCHonoraryAssociateArtist
Bill works with French actress Lena Robin on #Portia from his new 6 character version called A Merchant of Venice Join behind the scenes...
Nov 7, 2020
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