Stay away from the film version of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - one of the most boring movies ever made of one of the funniest plays. What they were thinking of, heaven knows. Slow, tedious, unfunny.

The recent Midsummer Night's Dream has Kevin Kline, and that is about it. The music is completely irrelevant Italian opera, with no relation to the play at all. Michelle Pfeiffer is dreary -- and I am a big fan of hers! It was really disappointing.

Derek Jacobi's Richard II is my favourite. Man, oh man. Haven't seen the Hamlet, must go to my library and get it out.

Love's Labour's Lost looks pretty scary: it is Ken Branagh trying to do a 30s musical. This is a very formal play -- a great deal of complex language in sonnet form. The snippet I saw with Alicia Silverstone (yes) was dreadful. I fear the worst.

yours, Peter T.