Evil is all around us! Reviewed by Zsolt Almási Ádám Horgas’s Macbeth[1] in the Hungarian Theatre, Budapest provides a thorough theatrical representation of the overwhelming power of evil. In this production all the smallest details line up into a coherent unity exploring magically how fragile human virtue is, how seductive evil can be. The exploration […]
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. The Rest is Silence, dreamthinkspeak, 29 June 2012, at the Northern Stage, Newcastle upon Tyne By Adam Hansen, University of Northumbria In Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Critic as Artist’ (1890-91), […]
Antony and Cleopatra, directed by Joe Falocco for Poor Shadows of Elysium at the Curtain Theater, Austin, Texas, 4 May 2014. Reviewed by Joseph F. Stephenson (Abilene Christian University) Though Antony and Cleopatra is certainly no obscure, little-known Shakespearean play, it is in fact not very often performed outside the major professional companies in large cities. […]
Othello directed by Nicholas Hytner, The National Theatre, London, 2013. If my memory serves me correctly, then all of Nicholas Hytner’s Shakespeare productions I have seen have been in modern-dress. Occasionally the need to find a visual, contemporary cultural idiom has been unsuccessful. In 2002, Hytner’s setting of the long pastoral scenes of The Winter’s […]
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. The Dark Side of Love, directed by Renato Rocha and co-directed by Keziah Serreau, 5 July 2012 at the Roundhouse, London By Sonia Massai, King’s College London At the beginning of this 45-minute promenade […]
Othello, dir. Daria Bukvic. Tr. Esther Duysker. Het Nationale Theater. Utrecht, Podium Hoge Woerd, 24 February 2018. Review by Paul Franssen (Utrecht University) Few recent Dutch Shakespeare productions have come in for more advance publicity than this Othello. Indeed, it was a remarkable production. For director Daria Bukvic, the central issue of Othello was race: […]
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. Three Arabic Shakespeares, Putting Words into our Mouths By Saffron Walkling, York St John University Cymbeline directed by Joseph Abuk and Derik Uya Alfred and performed by South Sudan Theatre Company, […]
Macbeth; directed by Charles Fee for the Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Boise, Idaho, 19 June 2018. Reviewed by Julie Fendrick Macbeth’s witches perch upon the balcony of an impressive outdoor theater, their black, flexible wings wrapped around their bodies like bats; with a jarring crack of thunder, so opens the Macbeth of the Idaho Shakespeare Festival’s 2018 […]
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. Romeo and Juliet, Grupo Galpão, 19 May 2012 at The Globe, London By Kate McLuskie, Shakespeare Institute The Saturday afternoon crowd, strolling from Waterloo past the Globe enjoyed a man in […]
Julia & Romeo; directed by Jussi Nikkilä for the Finnish National Theater in Helsinki, Finland. Adaptation by Anna Viitala based on a translation by Marja-Leena Mikkola. 4 Oct 2018 Reviewed by Nely Keinänen (University of Helsinki) In 2016, the director Jussi Nikkilä did an excellent production of Richard III on one of the smaller stages […]
