What Was Your First Experience Of Shakespeare?

What was your first experience of Shakespeare?

I don't know if this was my first experience, but it really chimed with me. Growing up, I saw a lot of plays but when I was about 16, I saw Filter’s version of Twelfth Night at the Tricycle Theatre (now the Kiln). In the party scene, before Malvolio comes in, they handed out pizza to the audience and set up a huge game with those fuzzy balls that you throw and catch onto a disc. It was a raucous affair, a frivolous moment of fun that meant when Malvolio came in to stop the fun, we all felt completely chastised, because we were part of the action. Something really clicked for me – I was forced to engage with it in a different way and I felt the wrath of Malvolio coming in and shaking us all up. 

i’m not saying that fixation on any play is good sign but there’s something particularly alarming about getting stuck on hamlet

David Tennant

seeing two different productions of romeo and juilet in the span of a month autumn is really MY TIME

New York City Ballet - A Midsummer Nights Dream 1966

shakespeare "hamlet"