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Cheek By Jowl

April 2023

  • Sophie Fiennes directs her brother Ralph on the set of Four Quartets

    ‘Extremely precarious’: Sophie Fiennes on documentary film-making in the UK

  • Alfredo Noval as Segismundo in Life Is a Dream.

    Life Is a Dream review – profound play messes merrily with reality

May 2020

  • Tom Hiddleston (Posthumus) and Jodie McNee (Imogen) in Cymbeline

    From boyband Shakespeare to Betrayal: Tom Hiddleston on stage – in pictures

    As Coriolanus is streamed for National Theatre at Home, look back at Tom Hiddleston’s theatre career, including his early roles with Cheek by Jowl and his hot-ticket Hamlet

April 2020

  • Love’s Labour’s Lost by Deafinitely Theatre, David Tennant as Richard II, The Winter’s Tale at the Barbican and Josette Simon as Cleopatra.

    Lockdown culture
    Play on! 12 of the best Shakespeare productions to stream

    Theatres may be closed but you can celebrate the Bard’s birthday on Thursday by watching one of his plays online

March 2020

  • Darkly comic … Fausto Cabra as Vindice in The Revenger’s Tragedy.

    The Revenger’s Tragedy review – gruesome tale with a touch of Berlusconi

  • Syrupy ... Edward Watson in Metamorphosis at the Royal Opera House.

    The recipe for realistic theatre gore? Jelly, oatmeal and raw meat

April 2017

  • ‘Shafts of illumination’: Orlando James and Natalie Radmall-Quirke in The Winter’s Tale.

    The Winter’s Tale review – pursued by a bear of very little brawn

    Cheek by Jowl rise to Shakespeare’s challenge, including a wonderful awakening for Hermione. But the beast scares no one

August 2016

  • Tom Hiddleston (Posthumus) and Jodie McNee (Imogen) in Cymbeline by Cheek by Jowl at the Barbican, London, in 2007.

    How we staged Shakespeare
    'Tom Hiddleston sang a boyband number': Nick Ormerod on Cymbeline

    Designer Nick Ormerod on how he brought Shakespeare’s ancient Britons into the 20th century for Cheek by Jowl’s production of Cymbeline

October 2015

  • Mark Lawson

    Mark Lawson's theatre studies
    The power of shame: why Measure for Measure is more relevant than ever

    Mark Lawson
    Measure for Measure has been staged three times in London this year. It goes to show just how resonant its themes of sexual licentiousness and twisted democracy are today – especially in Russia

May 2011

  • cheek by jowl

    Arts venues band together to fund new festival of finest radical theatre

    Nottingham's Neat 11 festival opens on 26 May

April 2011

  • Culture shorts
    Cheek by Jowl's Declan Donnellan: Still on the road – video

    Director Declan Donnellan talks to Andrew Dickson about directing Shakespeare in Russian and why arts cuts could cost culture dear

October 2009

  • Peter Needham, left, in As You Like It

    Peter Needham obituary

    Obituary: A versatile stage actor, he did notable work with Cheek by Jowl

April 2009

  • Andromaque Cheek By Jowl

    Cheek by Jowl's Declan Donnellan: I owe my theatre career to Racine

    Declan Donnellan

    Declan Donnellan: I was only a teenager when I discovered Racine's tragic play Andromaque. It changed my life forever

May 2008

  • Mission impossible

  • Cheek by Jowl's production of Troilus and Cressida

    'It feels a bit like coming back home'

June 2007

  • Why Britannia still rules the stage - part 3

    British theatre has never had it so good. On screen, in plays, and from Broadway to the Oscars, our actors are being feted as never before. We celebrate this remarkable renaissance by bringing together 50 great British actors in a unique portrait, featuring our finest young talents and treasured veterans like Ian McKellen.

May 2007

  • Theatre blog
    I'd queue for days to see Chekhov in Russian

    Declan Donnellan's Cheek by Jowl company of Russian actors produce a knockout performance.

May 2006

  • Drowning his sorrows in style

    Theatre: Moses Raine's first staged work charts the sinking spirits of a bereaved son, while Cheek by Jowl do inspired lunacy at the Barbican, writes Susannah Clapp.

February 2006

  • As he likes it

    Declan Donnellan's Cheek by Jowl ensemble returns to London with The Changeling, marking a significant step-change in his, and British theatre's, development.

July 2005

  • New companies to fill RSC gap

    The Barbican Theatre has confirmed two new associate companies - partially filling the gap left by the Royal Shakespeare Company, which abruptly departed three years ago.
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