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. A Soldier in Every Son – ‘Chaos Comes to Establish a New Order’ By Leticia Garcia, University of California at Irvine The cross-cultural collaborations forming part of the Globe to […]
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. King Lear, Belarus Free Theatre, 17-18 May 2012 at The Globe, London By Keren Zaiontz, University of Roehampton In their radically adapted version of King Lear, performed in Belarusian, exiled company Belarus Free Theatre refashions […]
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. In Praise of Translation: On Watching Shakespeare in a Foreign Language By Margherita Laera, Queen Mary University of London You might not agree with me but, in recent years, I […]
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. Timon of Athens, National Theatre, Dir. Nicholas Hynter at the Olivier, National Theatre, 14 July 2012 By Emily Linnemann, Shakespeare Institute It seems remarkably apt, given my post here last […]
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. Richard III, Royal Shakespeare Company, dir. by Roxana Silbert, 10 May 2012 at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon By Peter J Smith, Nottingham Trent University Will I be in trouble for […]
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. Pericles, National Theatre of Greece, dir. Giannis Houvardas, 27 April 2012 at The Globe, London. By Stephen Purcell, University of Warwick The Globe auditorium erupted with applause as a […]
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. Cymbeline, The Ninagawa Company, dir. by Yukio Ninagawa, 2 June 2012 at the Barbican Theatre, London By John Lavagnino, King’s College London Ninagawa directs Cymbeline as though there’s nothing much […]
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. Henry IV – Part 2, dir. Richard Eyre, 14 July 2012 on BBC 2 By Will Sharpe We begin, again, in the tavern – this production’s spiritual home – […]
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. Richard II, Ashtar Theatre, dir. Conall Morrison, 4 May 2012 at The Globe, London By Erin Sullivan, Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham The first thing we see is a […]
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. Y Storm or The Tempest, Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru, Dir. Elen Bowman, August 7 2012 (matinee), at National Eisteddfod Maes, Llandow, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. By Alun Thomas, Cardiff University Y Storm […]
