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All’s Well That Ends Quickly - lets make Shakespeare shorter

There’s a running gag in the BBC sit-com “Upstart Crow”, where William Shakespeare is mercilessly taunted by his family about the...

Sounding Off in the lockdown

Emmeline Braefield (seen below with playwright,Rowena Cooper) winner of the 2018-19 Stratford Fringe'sFringe Event of the Year with...

A Tale of Two History plays

In a time when “fake news” is another way of dressing up prejudice as undeniable and incontrovertible “fact” the truth of historical...

Stratford Fringe - three years and counting

So it’s three years since we launched the Stratford Fringe website (cue rousing chorus of “Happy Birthday to you”) and we’re going to...

Greek Expectations with music

Greek Tragedy never ends well – the clues in the name – whereas Musical Theatre pretty much always does. The two kinds of theatre...

Putting the bits and bobs together

There’s a new production of “Macbeth” coming to Stratford and it’s not the one with that chap from Doctor Who. This one is from...

Nia do well - Stratford Fringe Event of The Year is off to the seaside

It’s not always easy to say what is (or isn’t) a Fringe performance It’s usually easier to respond to questions of Fringe authenticity by...