Exploring Shakespeare

Set design (1980)

A set of tatty geometrical dun-coloured pieces of scenery that look like the backs of some stage flats from a faded pantomime.

Act and Scene
Credit: Desmond Pratt, Yorkshire Post
Date: 1980-04-24
Copyright: ©

Set design (2000)

The violent opening brawl leaves an irremovable bloodstain on the curving concrete walls.

Act and Scene
Credit: Michael Billington, Guardian
Date: 2000-01-20
Copyright: ©

There is ample room on the newly devised stage that, with the two Globe balconies (and their spectators) behind it, and a new ordering of the front stalls, turns this almost to a theatre-in-the-round.

Act and Scene
Credit: J.C.Trewin Birmingham Evening Post
Date: 1976-07
Copyright: ©

Set design (1989)

Except for a canopy of green leaves in a corner of the highest balcony to suggest Juliet’s chamber, the scene is unrelieved and our imagination paints the Italian scene.

Act and Scene
Credit: Margaret Ingram, Stratford Herald
Date: 1989-04-14
Copyright: ©