Brian Holland Rose

A Midsummer Night's Dream is a delightful tale of true love having to struggle against duty and pride. It has three separate interlocking stories set in Athens, woodland and the realm of the fairies all under a moonlit night. Possibly the oldest...

As You Like It is one of Shakespeare’s comedies featuring women dressed as men, brothers reconciling and wrongs put to right. The fair Rosalind falls in love with the strong Orlando and Rosalind’s companion to Orlando’s brother. Told here as a fairy...

Hamlet is renowned for classic lines and perceptive characterisation. It is often cited as Shakespeare’s greatest play and of course a tragedy of ghostly proportions. Equally compelling is the actual story which told here makes a cracking good listen....

King Lear is another of Shakespeare’s classic tragedies with many memorable lines on the price paid for vanity. King Lear has three daughters, Goneril, Regan and the youngest the good Cordelia. The King asks his daughters how much they love him and...

Much Ado About Nothing is set in Messina, Sicily where Don Pedro, an Italian prince and his two deputies, Claudio and Benedick are on their way home after success in battle. Leonato invites them to stay in Messina as his guests and throws a masked...

Romeo & Juliet is the ultimate tragic love story that has fuelled romance over generations and inspired numerous adaptations for stage, screen and beyond. The story of a feuding rivalry between two prestigious families in Verona the Montagues and the...