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Professional Shakespeare Productions in the British Isles, January–December 1996

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2007

Stanley Wells
Affiliation:
University of Birmingham
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Summary

Most of the productions listed here are by professional or semi-professional companies. Information is mainly taken from newspaper reviews held in the Birmingham Shakespeare Library.

ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL

Manchester Royal Exchange: September 1996

Director: Matthew Lloyd

Designer: Ashley Martin-Davies

Performed in the round, in the company's touring theatre tent, and set in the Second World War.

The Prince Theatre, the Prince of Orange pub, Greenwich, London: October 1996.

Director: Paul James

ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA

Northern Broadsides, tour continues. See Shakespeare Survey 30

1157 Theatre Company at the Tabard, London: June 1996

Director: Alasdair Middleton Warm baths taken on stage were used as a symbol of Egyptian degeneracy.

AS YOU LIKE IT

The RSC at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford: April 1996-

Director: Steven Pimlott

Designer: Ashley Martin-Davis

Music: Jason Can-

Rosalind: Niamh Cusack

The BAC, Lavender Hill, Battersea, London: June 1996

Director/Music: Peter Brewis

Designer: Caroline Grebbell

Open Hand Productions, the Oxford Shakespeare Festival: July 1996

The Northcott Theatre, Exeter, in Rougemont Gardens: July 1996

Director: John Durnin

Rosalind: Tanya Ronder

A semi-musical production, set in the 1920s.

Bold and Saucy Theatre Company with Open Hand Productions, played in Oxford college gardens: July 1996

Contraband Theatre Company, in Queen's Park, London: August 1996

An all-female cast, with the exception of Touchstone, played by a man in drag.

R. J. Williamson Productions, tour of northern England, with Much Ado About Nothing: August 1996—

Theatre Unbound, tour of open-air sites, with Much Ado About Nothing: July 1996—

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Shakespeare Survey , pp. 257 - 270
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 1998

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