“Boldness be my friend”: When Shakespeare gave me perspective

 This past bank holiday, I did something pretty amazing that was a massive tick off my personal bucket list. I helped fundraise, something I’ve always wanted to do but struggled to find the right outlet due to my physical limitations, and indeed the sheer amount of logistical planning it would take given these to find […]

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 […]

Coriolanus- Donmar Warehouse, 21st December 2013

Coriolanus is probably one of Shakespeare’s lesser known plays, and this literary nerd’s favourite of his canon of work. It’s a play about power, politics and more importantly, the relationships we have and how they can shape our identity. It tells of a Rome in chaos from famine, with the citizens rioting in anger against […]