‘Know us by these colours’: Oregon Shakespeare Festival 2016 By Sheila T. Cavanagh, Emory University Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) in Ashland, Oregon sparked considerable controversy last year when they announced their “Play On!” initiative, whereby current playwrights and dramaturgs are being commissioned to “translate” the plays attributed to Shakespeare into twenty first century English. […]
XVIII Festiwal Szekspirowski w Gdańsku / 18th Gdańsk Shakespeare Festival Teatr Szekspirowski / The Gdańsk Shakespeare Theatre Gdańsk, Poland 27 September – 5 October 2014 http://www.festiwalszekspirowski.pl http://teatrszekspirowski.pl/index.php Reviewed by Magdalena Cieślak This year’s eighteenth edition of the Gdańsk Shakespeare Festival was special for a couple of reasons. The first was its “coming of age” status, as […]
By Janice Valls-RussellCranes are – along with spires and towers – part of the Gdańsk cityscape. The harbour had a man-powered crane back in the Middle Ages, to unload cargo in this busy Hanseatic harbour, long before the steel monsters we associate with the city’s shipyards and their politically charged history. Today, building cranes on […]
Review by Rob Ormsby Celebration, festivity and inclusiveness are the dominant tones in the Chris Abraham-directed A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Stratford Ontario’s Festival Theatre. He signals this festive spirit of community before the show begins by sending many cast members in semi-casual summer dress out to mingle and chat on the theatre’s thrust stage, […]
Review by Rob Ormsby Much has been made of the convention of “Original Practices” (OP) on display in the King John currently playing in the Tom Patterson Theatre at Ontario’s Stratford Festival. These practices appear at the Tom Patterson in the form of a bare wooden stage illuminated by real and simulated candles (augmented by […]
Directed by Robynn Rodriguez. Set by Robert Mark Morgan. Costumes by Bill Black. Lighting by Donna Ruzika. Composer/Sound by Barry G. Funderburg. Dramaturg Michael Flachmann. Choreographer Stephanie Ivers. Fights by Jason Armit. With Corey Jones (King John), Zack Powell (Prince Henry) Jeanne Paulsen (Queen Eleanor) Steve Wojtas (Philip the Bastard). Fredric Stone (Philip King of […]
Bitola, Macedonia, 19-25 July 2013 The Bitola Shakespeare Festival is extending the bold intercultural experiment of last year’s Globe-to-Globe Festival in London. As part of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad, Globe-to-Globe launched a planetary Shakespeare project by inviting 37 companies from around the world to perform the playwright’s works in their home languages. The Bitola […]
With the cultural Olympiad well under way in London, attention shifts in August to the Athens of the North and the Edinburgh Festival where, as usual, Shakespeare features in both the official festival and the fringe. The Edinburgh International Festival (EIF) has concert performances of Mendelssohn’s music for A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Camille O’Sullivan’s part-sung, part-spoken The […]
The world of Shakespeare is coming to England during this Olympic year with a whole string of remarkable productions, many of them taking off from a Shakespeare play rather than offering a straightforward, text-based account of it. But that doesn’t mean that there isn’t still a world of Shakespeare elsewhere. From 10 to 15 July […]
This post is part of Year of Shakespeare, a project documenting the World Shakespeare Festival, the greatest celebration of Shakespeare the world has ever seen. What did people make of Shakespeare’s role in the ‘Isles of Wonder’ Olympic Opening Ceremony last night? Here are some thoughts from Twitter – you can add your voice to […]
