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Swingin' the Dream, RSC, review: when Louis Armstrong was cast as Bottom as jazz met Shakespeare


Louis Armstrong starred in a very unusual production of A Midsummer Night s Dream
Credit: Haywood Magee
How heartening to see – shock! - a company of actors and musicians onstage at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford again. Performing Shakespeare? It ain’t necessarily so.
On Saturday, for less than an hour, Swingin’ the Dream revisited a fascinating, little-known chapter of artistic fusion, when the Bard collided with the Jazz Age. In December 1939, Broadway briefly saw an epic version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream featuring an “integrated” company of more than 100. Louis Armstrong, cast as Bottom, shared top billing with “King of Swing” Benny Goodman, whose sextet tried to get the joint jumping. ....

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REVIEW: RSC's Troy Story blends the epic and the intimate in captivating style


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Anne Odeke, Andrew French and Alice Blundell in The Rage of Achilles
It sounds crass to suggest that this year of great heartbreak and loss could turn out to be in any way good for the arts. The past ten months have laid waste to so many lives, livelihoods and dreams; it is doubtful that anyone will look back on 2020 with fondness. And yet the extraordinary nature of these times is leading to works of extraordinary creativity, with artists doing things that are genuinely new.
There is a production of A Christmas Carol which dissolves the boundary between cinema and theatre. There is also an exquisite horror film called Host, which is set in a Zoom call. These things would not have been made in any other year. And nor would Troy Story, in which the RSC has essentially invented a genre. That it exists at all is a miracle; that it is good is a mere bonus. ....

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