The darkling wood…

Well, that’s a record. I’ve usually managed at least twice-yearly updates, but I find nearly a year has flown by without my noticing it. Time seems to hurtle ever faster. I left you as I embarked on the adventure of King Lear for the RSC last autumn; and what an odyssey it was (topical)! After a first-ever appearance for the RSC in the Isles of Scilly, we toured from Cornwall to Skegness, the Isle of Wight to the Isle of Sheppey, finishing in Kent, my home county. Playing to the young audiences (for whom the show was particularly made, though adults loved the cut-down, no-nonsense nature of the production, too) was thrilling – hearing their IMMEDIATE feedback in the school halls, their shock or surprise at Gloucester’s blinding, or...

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