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Ancient British coins found in Dutch field likely to be spoils of Roman conquest - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jan/27/hoard-of-coins-dating-from-roman-conquest-of-britain-found-near-utrecht "Archaeologists hail discovery of very rare hoard featuring 44 gold coins bearing name of Celtic king Cunobelinus" #cymbeline - amazing...
Ancient British coins found in Dutch field likely to be spoils of Roman conquest

Archaeologists hail discovery of very rare hoard featuring 44 gold coins bearing name of Celtic king Cunobelinus

The Guardian

The Stratford Festival has 12 productions set to stage in 2024, and it includes classics as well as three world premieres.

#Shakespeare plays:

#RomeoAndJuliet.
#TwelfthNight.
#Cymbeline.

Other plays include:

The #EarlyVictorianComedy London Assurance by #DionBoucicault.
#HenrikIbsen's play #HeddaGabler

The #NorthAmericanPremiere of Wendy and Peter Pan.
#EdwardAlbee's The Goat or, Who is Sylvia?
The #WorldPremiere of Salesman in China by #LeannaBrodie and #JovanniSy.

The world premiere of a new adaptation of #MargaretLaurence's classic #TheDiviners by #VernThiessen with #YvetteNolan.

The world premiere of Get That Hope by #AndreaScott.

The festival will also present two #Musicals:

#SomethingRotten
The #TonyAward-winning #LaCageAuxFolles
#StratfordFesitival #StratfordOntario #Theatre #WilliamShakespeare #Ontario #Canada

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/stratford-festival-2024-season-announced-1.6963816

Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night and premiere of The Diviners hit the stage in Stratford Festival's 2024 season | CBC News

The Stratford Festival has announced 12 productions for its 2024 season. It will include Romeo and Juliet, Cymbeline, Edward Albee's The Goat or, Who is Sylvia? and world premieres of three plays including an adaptation of the Margaret Laurence novel The Diviners.

CBC

New blog post from me:

Hair metal fantasy Cymbeline in McLaren Park

A review of San Francisco Shakespeare Festival’s 2023 Free Shakespeare in the Park production of Cymbeline

https://rinsemiddlebliss.com/posts/2023-09-07-hair-metal-fantasy-cymbeline-in-mclaren-park/

#review #SFBay #Cymbeline #theater

Hair metal fantasy Cymbeline in McLaren Park

The poster for Cymbeline in the park looked like a hair metal fantasy movie from the 80s. I’d seen it every time I went to get burritos at my local taqueria, and I thought, whatever this is, it’s gonna be weird. On that promise, it delivered.

ChatGPT, write me a Shakespeare play with aspects of The Tempest, Twelfth Night, Macbeth, The Winter's Tale and Romeo and Juliet.
Must have Romans, yes, definitely Romans.
What's that?
Oh right, #Cymbeline!

After noticing Michael Wood (@mayavision) at #Cymbeline I've now got tickets to see him alongside @ShowOfHandsNews.

Normally a historian's stadium tour means looking at amphitheatres.

Home again at 01:15. Great fun at #Cymbeline and a bonus bit of Sir Patrick Stewart. But I don't have the stamina that I once did.
Off to #Cymbeline.

Here's #MyShakespeareWinter part 36 of 37:

#Cymbeline is a dark horse favorite...a weird epic of banished lovers, scheming royals, ancient wars, pastoral comedy, family reunion, supernatural grace...one of his last plays, the Bard revisits his whole career here in giddy fashion