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Sherlock Holmes review – the game is afoot, a stone’s throw from Baker Street

The detective and his sidekick return for a new case by Joel Horwood in an alfresco setting that playfully refers to nearby attractions

The Guardian - UK · May 14

Sherlock Holmes at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre: A garbled take

2/5 A baffling mix of previous takes on Holmes doesn’t have much of a clue

Evening Standard · May 14

From Hamlet at the Globe to Keir Starmer on SNL UK: the anarchic rise of George Fouracres

After years of skits and Shakespeare, the Black Country performer has found his biggest audience yet on Saturday Night Live UK. Phil Wang and others hail his ‘pure comedic instinct’

The Guardian - UK · Mar 27

The week in theatre: Much Ado About Nothing; Kiss Me, Kate – review

Shakespeare’s Globe; Barbican, London The possibility of pleasure is everywhere in Sean Holmes’s summer crowd-pleaser, while Adrian Dunbar tackles his first musical role in Cole Porter’s take on the bard’s least appealing play

The Guardian - UK · Jun 23, 2024

Much Ado About Nothing review – frothy fun to please the purists

There’s no whiff of stuffiness in a Sean Holmes production characterised by warm summer euphoria, Elizabethan-era magic and entrancing music

The Guardian - UK · May 5, 2024

Much Ado About Nothing at Shakespeare’s Globe review: this sunkissed production is joyful and intelligent

Amalia Vitale and Ekow Quartey are arch and spirited as the central, wittily unwilling lovers

Evening Standard · May 4, 2024

‘I loved every single word’: tributes to the blistering brilliance of Edward Bond

Marianne Faithfull, Simon Callow, Tanya Moodie, Richard McCabe and Sean Holmes remember working with the remarkable British playwright who died on Sunday

The Guardian - UK · Mar 7, 2024

The Comedy of Errors review – full of wit and pizazz

Amped-up visual gags and a cast that brings its own distinctive comic gifts to the Bard’s dialogue ensure a contemporary feel to the classic comedy

The Guardian - UK · May 22, 2023

The Comedy of Errors at Shakespeare’s Globe review – daft, bawdy and boisterous with magnificent codpieces

Amid all the nonsense, you find yourself falling for the idiots in one of Shakespeare’s earliest plays

Evening Standard · May 19, 2023

The Winter’s Tale review: jarring Shakespeare's Globe production lacks warmth

The Winter’s Tale is one of Shakespeare’s great “hospitality plays” – a tragicomedy about what goes wrong when a guest outstays their welcome.

The Conversation · Mar 28, 2023