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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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Women in Prison New Beginnings Art Awards September 2020 - exhibition runs until #Nov29th
#TheLightBox #WomensSupportCentreWoking present their #10th New Beginnings Art Awards With the extra restrictions imposed on women in...
Oct 19, 2020
#Playreading sessions for the #over50's re start on Thursday #14thJanuary #2021 at #2pm.
Come and join the playreading group to have fun reading together - some short plays, some scenes, some longer plays. From Oct - Dec 2020...
Oct 1, 2020
#SnackingonShakespeare - online sessions is restarting on #January11th2021 with #TheWinter'sTale
Mary Chater, a co founder of Shakespeare in Italy will lead #participatory 1 hour long sessions every Monday at #3pm for those who...
Oct 1, 2020
New Beginnings Arts Awards - #WomeninPrison.org.uk and the Women's Support Centre, Woking
10th New Beginnings Art Awards ' Looking through a Different Lens' The Women’s Support Centre in Surrey and the Trustees of The Lightbox...
Sep 27, 2020
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
Janet Suzman - Shakespeare as a Protest Playwright
Black Lives Matter Shakespeare in Italy Summer School tutor and esteemed actress Janet Suzman is leading two online lectures in...
Aug 26, 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
Drama teacher wins Decameronesque Short Play Writing Competition
'Professor Pennington's Wife' judged best play 'Professor Pennington's Wife' written by drama teacher Sarah McCormack has been judged...
Aug 2, 2020
Decameron short play finalists announced
Six finalists from 60 entries We are delighted to announce the finalists in our Decameron Short Play competition. 'Fairies' by Adam...
Jul 20, 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
Tribute to Shakespeare in Italy Co-Founder Actor Julian Curry
As Members and Trustees of Shakespeare in Italy, we are very saddened to hear of the death of our company co-founder, actor Julian Curry....
Jun 29, 2020
Feast - A Play in One Cooking
Come join us at the table with our actors for the reading of this new play The next in our series celebrating women writers on our...
Jun 15, 2020
New competition urges writers to fill up their quills
Join our online workshop on the 14th Century Decameron stories which inspired Shakespeare to find out more The stories about people in...
May 30, 2020
Women's Series - A Celebration of New Writing
Join us for the first in a series of virtual play readings #actors #actorslife #newplays #playreadings #femaleplaywrights Our new series...
May 26, 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
Shakespeare's Kitchen Online Q and A
Online session discussing Shakespeare, Food and Nutrition, followed by a reading of the short new play 'Ophelia Herb Woman' We examine...
May 17, 2020
Women in Prison New Beginnings Art Awards September 2020
Online drop in sessions begin tomorrow for Through a Different Lens - theme of art awards this September. It will be the 10th year of the...
May 13, 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
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