How Things Change

While looking at historical August posts on D4D while writing a couple this morning, I came across this one.

So it’s just two years ago – almost to the day – that I saw my first Shakespeare play in a good decade or two, which was Hamlet, with Benedict Cumberbatch in the main role, at the Barbican.

Since then I’ve seen (in no particular order)

• King Lear  – twice (Don Warrington, and Glenda Jackson)
• Hamlet (Andrew Strong Scott)
• Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Globe
• Romeo and Juliet at the Garrick
• Macbeth (open-air production near my parent’s place)
• Tempest (Simon Russell Beale) at the RSC Stratford-upon-Avon
  and
• something else that I can’t currently recall.

I’ve also got Coriolanus in Stratford-upon-Avon next month, and Lear (again) in Chichester in October.

There’ve been a number of other plays along the way as well, and it’s all been pretty damn good.  I’m just surprised I’ve wedged as much as I have into two years…