In The Paper

In this week’s issue of The Stage, writer, critic and Shakespeare scholar Jonathan Bate examines how various readings of the Bard’s text can result in a radically different production, and why that may be one of the reasons for the Bard’s enduring appeal. Read the article online.

Also this week:

• Rhodri Glyn Thomas is the Welsh Assembly’s fourth heritage minister in less than two years. He talks to The Stage about his plans to promote excellence in the industry, deliver culture at a local level and tackle diversity of access

• Insight: The Creative and Cultural Skills Council is launching a new apprenticeship scheme, which may help to counteract the expected shortage in backstage staff in the future

• Dear John: “How can I turn my specialist talent into a long-term performing career?” With guest experts David Straitjacket and Rubber Ritchie

• Husband and wife actors Owen Teale and Sylvestra Le Touzel are both currently working for the Donmar Warehouse — she in Ivanov and he in Creditors. Michael Coveney discovers how, despite enjoying busy acting careers, the couple successfully balance family life and creative fulfilment on the stage

• Taking his new show All the Fun of the Fair on a national tour, David Essex talks to Mark Shenton about creating an original musical, being out of the public eye and why he thinks he’ll always be an outsider

• Eddie Redmayne is currently on screen as Angel Clare in the BBC’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles and is on stage in the Royal Court’s Now or Later. He tells Matthew Hemley about the effects of Hardy’s words and how he won Hollywood roles without drama school training

• Backstage Focus: Geoffrey Joyce visits PLASA08 and admires Lightlock, an innovative new product by the RSC’s head of lighting Vince Herbert

• First known as the pop sensation the Teenage Rage, Larry Page went on to manage and promote such acts as the Kinks, the Troggs and Sonny and Cher. Now writing his memoirs, he tells Fred Dellar that going to Australia was the best move he ever made

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