The Winter’s Tale continues at the Roman Theatre at Verulamium, St Albans until 10 July 2021. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Of all of Shakespeare’s plays, The Winter’s Tale is hardest to classify, beyond “the one with the stage direction Exit, pursued by a bear”, starting as psychodrama before segueing into knockabout comedy. This […]
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Special outdoor version of Charles Court Opera’s H.M.S. Pinafore
Charles Court Opera is emerging from lockdown with a re-worked outdoor staging of their Offie Award-winning production of H.M.S Pinafore at The Maltings Open Air Theatre Festival later this month. Described as ‘the masters of G&S in small spaces’, the group has customised the production which played an award-winning run at London’s King’s Head Theatre […]
Twelfth Night – Maltings Theatre, St Albans – Zoom
Twelfth Night, available to stream via Zoom until 14 June 2020. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Adam Nichols’ bijou take on Shakespeare’s most silvery, summery, musical play is quirky and fun. We’re on a cruise liner, the SS Illyria, captained by Orsino. At the beginning it picks up the survivors of SS […]
Maltings’ Twelfth Night to be streamed live online
St Albans-based fringe venue The Maltings Theatre will premiere an online version of its modern music-flavoured re-working of Twelfth Night online via Zoom on 12, 13 and 14 June 2020 at 8pm. Set on a cruise liner at the height of the roaring twenties, ten actors will welcome their Zoom audience on board for a […]
