BP or not BP?

When the Reclaim Shakespeare Company performed recently at the Counter-Olympics ‘Whose Games? Whose City?’ march, we met a most wondrous woman, Gwyn. She, a local resident of Newham, was appalled by Tower Hamlets council’s attempt to ban any speeches against the Olympics in the local park. So she turned to Shakespeare – Julius Caesar, to … More A soliloquy on the Olympics, from a Newham resident

Performance 1: The Royal Shakespeare Theatre, before The Tempest, April 23rd (Shakespeare’s birthday!)   Performance 2: The Royal Shakespeare Theatre again, before Twelfth Night, April 25th http://london.indymedia.org/flash/mediaplayer.swf   Performance 3: At the Roundhouse, Camden, before Comedy of Errors and in front of an audience partly made up of BP and RSC staff! 27th June.   … More Films of all five of our performances

RSC at the British Museum from rikki indymedia on Vimeo. Today, twelve members of the “Reclaim Shakespeare Company” staged an unexpected protest performance inside the Shakespeare: Staging the World exhibition at the British Museum Today at 3.30pm, a dozen members of the “Reclaim Shakespeare Company” theatrical action group launched a surprise piece of protest performance … More Surprise theatrical protest inside British Museum over BP sponsorship of Shakespeare and the Olympics

Tonight, a member of the “Reclaim Shakespeare Company” jumped on stage and performed a “guerilla Shakespeare” soliloquy, to highlight the role of BP – a major World Shakespeare Festival sponsor – in the war in Iraq and in environmentally damaging projects worldwide. Tonight (28th June 2012), a member of a theatrical action group called the … More Stage invaded at ‘Romeo and Juliet in Baghdad’ performance to challenge BP sponsorship

Our debut week has been such stuff as dreams are made on! Two well-received ‘guerilla Shakespeare’ performances, strong reviews (see list below), and much chatter and philosophising on the question of whether it is appropriate for BP, that smiling damn villain, to be sponsoring the World Shakespeare Festival and the Royal Shakespeare Company. We note … More Canst those involved with RSC and World Shakespeare Festival speak out?

http://london.indymedia.org/flash/mediaplayer.swf See this video and more at Indymedia London BP sponsorship of the World Shakespeare Festival came under fire again last night, as two singers added an unexpected musical prologue to the RSC’s performance of ‘Twelfth Night’ at Stratford-upon-Avon. They were protesting about the oil company’s failure to clean up after the Deepwater Horizon drilling … More We strike again, with ‘green and yellow melancholy’

This night, at the RSC, two bold minstrels did strut suddenly upon the stage, and sang a song most mournful before the opening of BP-sponsored Twelfth Night. Our lionhearted bards didst sing a ballad most divine: “When I hear that BP story, green and yellow melancholy, Deepwater despair…” The audience were much moved, and did … More We hath struck again!

We are most humbled to have found The Guardian website for a stage, and you, dear reader, to behold the swelling scene. Meanwhile, the LA Times hath crept onto the scene. Our cup runneth over!

Our debut performance has now been covered by these most worthy and esteemed publications: Protesters ask ‘BP or not BP?’ in Royal Shakespeare Theatre – Whatsonstage.com Protestors ask audience to rip BP logos out of their programmes – The Stage Anyone in the Central region should also look out for us on the ITV lunchtime … More Our first reviews!