by Annette Rubery | May 14, 2024 | Architecture, Art
We went to Blenheim on bank holiday Monday because I wanted to walk from the Ditchley Gate right up to the house. Well, it was pouring down with rain so that wasn’t happening. I managed to check a few aspects of the parkland that I wanted to, but we were soon...
by Annette Rubery | May 3, 2024 | Architecture, History
I’m in the midst of writing a book about Sir John Vanbrugh and European art, so apologies for the lack of blogs. However, I didn’t want to miss sharing my photos of Vanbrugh’s late masterpiece, Seaton Delaval Hall in Northumberland, which I was lucky...
by Annette Rubery | Mar 24, 2024 | Shakespeare
Macbeth, Dir. Simon Godwin, London 2024. Just back from London and the blasted heath of Canada Water to see Simon Godwin’s production of Macbeth. It took place in a gigantic warehouse, where audiences filed past a burnt-out car in an imaginary war-torn city, and the...
by Annette Rubery | Feb 1, 2024 | Theatre History
Whereas even those with a casual interest in British theatre would recognise the name David Garrick, Charles Macklin’s contributions to the development of acting in the 18th century have been all-but forgotten. Macklin was an early mentor of Garrick’s and worked...
by Annette Rubery | Dec 28, 2023 | Literature, Shakespeare
Two Dromios from the frontispiece to "Tales from Shakespeare", McLoughlin Brothers, 1890. Wikimedia Commons. I must confess that I chose The Comedy of Errors as my Christmas read because I am pushed for time and it’s short (Shakespeare’s shortest play, in fact). Yet...
