Dr Peter Kirwan

Tag: The Birth of Merlin

  • The Birth of Merlin (Treehouse Shakespeare Ensemble) @ The Blackfriars Playhouse

    The Birth of Merlin (Treehouse Shakespeare Ensemble) @ The Blackfriars Playhouse

    Never has a side-eye side-eyed more side-eydily than the side-eye of George Durfee’s Toclio. Amid a court of international intrigue, royal marriages, internecine conflicts, and warring magicians, the smooth Toclio – whose sudden appearance at one point caused the Briton nobles to jump in shock, and who was often the only representative of the Britons…

  • The Birth of Merlin (Read Not Dead) @ Shakespeare’s Globe

    The Birth of Merlin (Read Not Dead) @ Shakespeare’s Globe

    Of the fourteen plays included in C.F. Tucker Brooke’s Shakespeare Apocrypha in 1908 (to be supplanted next month by the RSC Collaborative Plays by Shakespeare and Others, in which I’ve had a hand), I’ve now seen six: The Two Noble Kinsmen (twice), Thomas More, Arden of Faversham (twice), A Yorkshire Tragedy (twice), Fair Em and now this, William Rowley’s The Birth of Merlin. Fascinatingly, while Rowley’s play…