Single-sex casting in Shakespeare

REGIONAL THEATRE: COLCHESTER Dee Evans, the artistic director of the Mercury Theatre, Colchester, talks briefly about an all-male Coriolanus and an all-female Julius Caesar, running in rep there this autumn. Dominic Cavendish quizzes.

SHAKESPEARE: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW/TWELFTH NIGHT Director Edward Hall, whose all-male Propeller company is staging a double bill at the Old Vic, talks to Heather Neill about the plays, the ensemble, single-sex casting and the survival of the Waterm...

ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL Shakespeare's bitterest comedy, revived by the RSC and reflected on collectively by David Benedict, Rhoda Koenig and Heather Neill. Patrick Marmion hosts.

SOAP BOX DEBATE: ARTISTS SHOULD ELECT THEIR OWN PARLIAMENT David Farr, artistic director of the Lyric Hammersmith, and National Theatre associate director Tom Morris propose the motion; Richard Noble, lecturer in Fine Art at Goldsmith's College, and ...