2007: A Big Year for the Bard
Dec 26th, 2007 by Daniel
Paul Taylor of the UK’s Independent has an article on what he considers a stellar year for the Bard…at least in Britain!
He begins:
Shakespeare – unlike the dollar or Amy Winehouse – can claim to have had a very good 2007. True, it’s hard to remember when he last had a bad year, though there have been years when his fine condition was merely stable and trading in him no more than brisk. But in 2007 Bardbiz boomed above-averagely well – both on the stage and on the page. There were major productions in London of four plays (Othello, Much Ado About Nothing, Macbeth and King Lear) involving stellar actors (Chiwetel Ejiofor and Ewan McGregor; Simon Russell Beale and Zoe Wanamaker; Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen). And three of the four shows were seriously high-quality as well as ridiculously high-profile – a strike rate that is a cause for rejoicing.
Check out the rest of the article here.
