3: Terry Deary on the Curse of the Scottish play
4: Shakespeare: 20th Century Playwright: a live debate from the RSC’s Other Place with Gregory Doran, Tracy Chevalier and Iqbal Khan
5: Romeo and Juliet: behind the scenes of Erica Whyman’s new RSC production
6: A plague on both your houses: director Erica Whyman and UCL’s Emma Whipday on the violence of Romeo and Juliet
7: Baz Luhrmann’s take on Romeo and Juliet
8. Does Shakespeare silence women? Actress Sylvestra le Touzel and others discuss whether Shakespeare’s female characters lack agency
9: Behind the scenes of The Merry Wives of Windsor: director Fiona Laird and actresses Rebecca Lacey and Beth Cordingly discuss the radical new Stratford production of Shakespeare’s knockabout comedy which transposes the action to Essex
10: The Merry Wives of Windsor: Is Shakespeare funny? Director Fiona Laird and Professor Helen Barr of Oxford University discuss the problem of finding humour in Shakespeare’s comedies.
11: Troilus and Cressida: Behind the Scenes. A behind the scenes look at Gregory Doran’s production which has music by Evelyn Glennie and boasts a 50-50 gender split. Doran talks about the nature of love and dashed hopes, alongside actors Gavin Fowler and Amber James who are playing the title characters,
12: Troilus and Cressida: fear and loathing in ancient Troy. Director Gregory Doran and academic and writer James Shapiro address Shakespeare’s most problematic of problem plays in which his assessment of human nature is at its most cynical.
13: Timon of Athens: behind the scenes. Simon Godwin’s new production of Shakespeare’s bitter satire moves the action to modern-day Greece. Actress Kathryn Hunter discusses portraying a character who turns quickly from magnanimous host to hermit as her life begins to unravel.
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