Hamlet (RSC, March 2025)

Though I’ve not read the entire canon yet or seen as many of the plays onstage as I’d wish, I consider myself to be a Shakespeare enthusiast. It’s a passion that has been with me since my school days: I was “that girl” in English class: the one who was entranced by the language and […]

Wheelie Stagey’s Most Anticipated Theatre and Theatrical Hopes for 2025

Hot on the heels of sharing my 2024 favourites, I thought I’d now look ahead into my diary for 2025 and share with you some of my most anticipated theatre for the upcoming year, as well as some of my theatrical “hopes” to fill in those gaps where I haven’t already booked things. As with […]

Hamlet (Bristol Old Vic, Press Night)

Hamlet has always been one of my favourite plays in the entire Shakespearean canon. I’ve always been fascinated by the tensions created by the themes: life and death, action versus inaction, corruption versus innocence, reality versus illusion, revenge versus integrity, the passing of time, and value of memory. The way these are intertwined and consistently […]

Hamlet – Barbican Centre, 7th August 2015

Shakespeare has been a valuable part of my life since my secondary school days; I was always fascinated by the language and the depth of the characters and found myself the odd one out in the vast majority of my classmates at the time who weren’t as taken with it as I was. Though I […]