In 2014 and 2015 I set out on an odyssey to see the traditional Shakespeare canon in a year. This is an aide memoire, mostly for me, of where I saw the plays. Did you see any of them too?
1) 27/11/14: Julius Ceasar, Lewes Town Hall
2) 23/12/14: The Winter’s Tale, Lion & Unicorn Theatre, London
3) 5/1/15: The Merchant of Venice, Almeida Theatre, London
4) 15/1/15: Othello, Lyric theatre, Hammesmith, London
5) 17/1/15: King Henry IV part 1, Barbican, London
6) 17/1/15, King Henry IV part 2, Barbican, London
7) 21/1/15: King Lear, Guildford Shakespeare Society, Guildford
8) 23/1/15: Hamlet, New Venture Theatre, Brighton
9) 5/2/15: Love’s Labours Lost, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford on Avon
10) 5/2/15: Much Ado About Nothing, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford on Avon
11) 7/2/15: Henry V, Arts Theatre, Cambridge
12) 13/2/15: Macbeth, The Vaults, Waterloo, London
13) 5/3/15: Henry VI part 1, Bronks Theatre, Brussels, Belgium
14) 5/3/15: Henry VI part 2, Bronks Theatre, Brussels, Belgium
15) 6/3/15: Henry VI part, Bronks Theatre, Brussels, Belgium
16) 28/3/15: Cymbeline, Waterloo East Theatre, London
17) 24/4/15: Antony and Cleopatra, Maddermarket Theatre, Norwich
18) 2/5/15: Titus Andronicus, Greenwich Theatre, London
19) 3/5/15: Two Gentlemen of Verona, Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation Theatre, London
20) 13/5/15: Coriolanus, Pavilion Gardens, Brighton
21) 13/5/15: Romeo and Juliet, Brighton Open Air Theatre, Hove
22) 15/5/15: The Taming of the Shrew, Friargate Theatre, York
23) 16/5/15: Timon of Athens, The De Grey Rooms, York
24) 29/5/15: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, St Ann’s Wells Gardens, Brighton
25) 11/6/15: King John, Shakespeare’s Globe, London
26) 2/7/15: Twelfth Night, Lewes Castle, Lewes
27) 17/7/15: Troilus and Cressida, Highdown Gardens, Worthing
28) 31/7/15: The Merry Wives of Windsor, Cambridge Shakespeare Festival. Cambridge
29) 5/8/15: Richard III, Curve Theatre, Leicester
30) 7/8/15: The Tempest, Brownsea Open Air Theatre, Poole. Dorset.
31) 21/8/15: All’s Well that Ends Well, the Space @ Niddry Street, Edinburgh
32) 1/9/15: As You Like It, Shakespeare’s Globe, London
33) 27/9/15: The Comedy of Errors, Globe Theatre di Villa Borghese, Rome, Italy
34) 8/10/15: Richard II, Shakespeare’s Globe, London
35) 17/10/15: Measure for Measure, Shakespeare’s Globe, London
36) 18/10/15: Henry VIII: Grand Central, Brighton
37) 21/10/15 Pericles: Thomas Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Ashland, USA