The first Shakespeare play that I can remember was A Midsummer Night's Dream at a theatre in London when I was maybe nine or ten years old. My father's great aunts would treat us every Christmas to the theatre (Toad of Toad Hall is one memory), a pantomime (even one on ice at Earls Court) or the circus. But the first I can really remember is King Lear starring Paul Schofield. It was a set play for "A" Levels and the sixth form went as a group to London at the beginning of 1963.
There were the plays at Stratford in sixties when Mum and Dad had moved to Kenilworth and bought tickets for the RSC. Then all the recent plays at Stratford over the last twenty odd years. With other performances at odd places. And now, nearly fifty years later, Henry V111 at The Globe Theatre has been the last. So I can update the list I originally published in December 2017. My huge volume of Complete Works is based on the 1623 First Folio plus Pericles and Two Noble Kinsmen.
The Merchant of Venice 28th May 1988 The Barbican Theatre, London
20th August 2015 Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford
Hamlet 22nd October 1988 The Phoenix Theatre, London
8th March 1993 The Barbican Theatre, London
Twelfth Night 13th April 1991 The Playhouse Theatre, London
30th October 2014 Watford Palace Theatre
Richard 11 15th January 2000 Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford (The Other Place)
7th January 2016 The Barbican Theatre, London
Henry IV Part 1 18th July 2000 Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford
Henry IV Part 11 9th August 2000 Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford
Henry V 12th September 2000 Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford
Henry VI Part 1 30th December 2000 The Swan Theatre, Stratford
Henry VI Part 11 30th December 2000 The Swan Theatre, Stratford
Henry VI Part 111 30th December 2000 The Swan Theatre, Stratford
Richard 111 24th May 2001 The Young Vic, London
Julius Caesar 5th September 2001 Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford
10th August 2017 Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford
The Tempest 5th August 1989 The Barbican Theatre, London 28th January 2003 The Old Vic, London
2nd March 2023 Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford
Titus Andronicus 8th October 2003 Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford
Romeo and Juliet 25th May 2004 Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford
Comedy of Errors 4th October 2005 Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford
King Lear 6th December 2007 New London Theatre
(Also in 1963 - Aldwych Theatre, London)
Love's Labour's Lost 13th November 2008 Rose Theatre, Kingston-Upon-Thames
Taming of the Shrew 10th July 2008 Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford
Othello 26th February 2009 Oxford Playhouse
The Winter's Tale 30th Jun 2009 The Courtyard Theatre, Stratford
2nd March 2017 Oxford Playhouse
Troilus and Cressida 26th August 2009 The Globe Theatre, London
Measure for Measure 8th April 2010 The Almeida, London
Antony and Cleopatra 19th August 2010 Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford
Merry Wives of Windsor 17th November 2010 Milton Keynes Theatre
All's Well That Ends Well 19th July 2011 The Globe Theatre, London
Macbeth 24th August 2011 Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford
1969 Nottingham Playhouse (see post 7th February 2025)
Timon of Athens 14th August 2012 The National Theatre, London (Olivier Theatre)
King John 5th September 2012 The Swan Theatre, Stratford
Two Gentlemen of Verona 15th April 2013 Bristol Tobacco Factory
As You Like It 21st August 2013 The Swan Theatre, Stratford
A Midsummer Night's Dream 11th September 2014 Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury
Much Ado About Nothing 20th October 2014 Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford
Pericles 14th April 2016 The Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, London
Cymbeline 27th July 2016 The Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford
Two Noble Kinsmen 21st September 2016 Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford
Coriolanus 28th September 2017 Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford
Henry V111 15th September 2022 The Globe Theatre, London
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