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Michael Bogdanov

January 2024

  • Fine performance … David Warner as Falstaff and Geoffrey Streatfeild as Prince Hal in Henry IV Part I in 2008.

    The many faces of Falstaff: Shakespeare’s tragicomic knight is as complex as Hamlet

    Ian McKellen follows in the footsteps of David Warner and Antony Sher as he takes on a character who has been played as wittily jovial and cruelly cunning

September 2020

  • LENNIE JAMES, CECILIA NOBLE AND KANANU KIRIMI IN “RAISIN IN THE SUN” @ YOUNG VIC (OPENING 4-6-01) TRISTRAM KENTON 6/01 (3 RAVELEY STREET LONDON NW5 2HX TEL: 020 7267 5550 MOBILE 07973 617 355)

    Joy, radicalism and bare bottoms: the Young Vic turns 50

    The giant street party has been cancelled. But there are still plans to celebrate the theatre that wowed young crowds, championed black playwrights and conjured finales from Italian cuisine

June 2019

  • Romeo and Juliet - 1968Olivia Hussey, Leonard Whiting Director: Franco Zeffirelli

    Romeo and Juliet, from Ashcroft to Zeffirelli – in pictures

    Franco Zeffirelli, who died this month, directed beloved versions of Shakespeare’s tragedy on stage and screen. We look back at productions starring, among others, Peggy Ashcroft, David Tennant and Paapa Essiedu

April 2017

  • Michael Bogdanov in 1981. He helped to found the National Theatre Cricket Club.

    Letter: Michael Bogdanov on the cricket pitch

    David Joss Buckley writes: Michael Bogdanov was a great sports fan – and always excitable
  • After the seven-play Wars of the Roses in 1989, Michael Bogdanov won the Olivier best director award and went on to produce Coriolanus, The Winter’s Tale and Beowulf.

    Michael Bogdanov obituary

    Theatre director and founder of the English Shakespeare Company whose 1980 production of The Romans in Britain led to an obscenity trial
  • Michael Bogdanov in 2004

    Theatre director Michael Bogdanov dies aged 78

    Welsh director was best known for The Romans in Britain, which led to an obscenity trial, and for co-founding the English Shakespeare Company

March 2015

  • Roger Gartland, Greg Hicks and Michael Fenner in The Romans in Britain at the National Theatre, London, 1980.

    From the Guardian archive
    From the archive, 19 March 1982: The Romans in Britain obscenity trial dropped

    Originally published in the Guardian on 19 March 1982: Mary Whitehouse, who brought a private prosecution against the play’s director, felt that it was quite unnecessary for her to see the play to appreciate its insidious quality

April 2014

  • Romeo and Juliet

    Shakespeare's plays – as you like them
    Best Shakespeare productions: what's your favourite Romeo and Juliet?

  • Taming of the Shrew

    Shakespeare's plays – as you like them
    Best Shakespeare productions: The Taming of the Shrew

March 2014

  • Jonathan Slinger in the RSC's Henry VI trilogy

    Shakespeare's plays – as you like them
    Best Shakespeare productions: Henry VI trilogy

    The complete trilogy – as staged over the years by Terry Hands, Michael Bogdanov and Michael Boyd – made a lasting impression on Michael Billington. Which are your favourite versions?

December 2013

  • Beauty and the Beast

    Theatre blog
    No sex please, we're in the theatre

    Lyn Gardner: Stephen Ward has an orgy on stage and Beauty and Beast lets it all hang out, but it's suggestion that is most erotic

October 2013

  • Anything Goes

    The National theatre at 50: Michael Billington's view from the stalls

    As the National gets Rufus Norris as a new boss, Michael Billington assesses how his predecessors shaped a British institution – for better or worse

October 2012

  • Michael Bogdanov

    Ban This Filth!: Letters from the Mary Whitehouse Archive by Ben Thompson – review

    An entertaining look at the correspondence of TV's self-appointed moral monitor. By Stuart Jeffries

June 2012

  • The Romans in Britain, 1980

    Mark Lawson's theatre studies
    'Now cross the Andes.' In praise of the impossible stage direction

    Mark Lawson: Whether it's calling for live bear attacks or expeditions across imaginary mountains, playwrights have made some intriguing demands. But part of the thrill of theatre is seeing what can't happen

February 2012

  • Nicholas Kent

    Saturday interview
    The Saturday interview: Nicolas Kent

    The artistic director of London's Tricycle Theatre is leaving after a 28-year tenure. So what next for the man who put real-life politics, from Iraq to last year's riots, on stage?

October 2011

  • peter hall

    Peter Hall dismisses RSC Marat/Sade controversy

    RSC's founder defends the company's right to be subsidised, saying 'controversy is the lifeblood of the arts'

October 2010

  • young vic natasha richardson

    Young Vic at 40: the Young and the restless

    As the Young Vic celebrates its 40th anniversary, Michael Billington looks back over four decades of controversy, cutting-edge theatre and a Keith Moon stage invasion

April 2009

  • The Thorn Birds

  • Theatre preview: The Thorn Birds, Swansea

January 2009

  • Rachel Ward and Richard Chamberlain in The Thorn Birds

    Theatre blog
    The Thorn Birds: The Musical has me all aflutter

    Karen Fricker: I can't wait for this classic piece of chick lit to take flight on stage. But who could rival Richard Chamberlain?

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