Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale – The RSC until 23 Feb

While The Winter’s Tale is often dubbed one of Shakespeare’s lesser known plays in comparison to the giants of Hamlet, Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet, it is one of the most widely acted plays in modern theatre: to this end, fans of the Bard may be thinking ‘why would I want to see the play all over again?’ This is indeed something that initially cropped into director Lucy Bailey’s head when approached to direct this winter’s showing of the play at the RSC; however, as soon as she read Shakespeare’s tale of jealousy versus romance, affluence versus penuriousness, she identified links to modern society that no director has ever pinpointed in their interpretations before, and directing the play became a no-brainer.

April @lomographyuk workshops in Birmingham

What better way to explore an area than through a camera lens? Lomography have been hanging out in Birmingham for the past three months where, along with selling some pretty stylish cameras in their Selfridges Pop Up (Bullring) they have also been hosting a series of workshops to help you get accustomed to the analogue cameras themselves.