Review of Shakespeare’s King Lear (directed by David Farr for the Royal Shakespeare Company) at the Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, 30 March 2010. Originally published in Shakespeare, 7.2 (2011), 217-22. By Kate Rumbold (University of Birmingham) Halfway through a successful three-year project, the Royal Shakespeare Company remains highly committed to the principles of ensemble theatre: its website states, “We […]
Originally published in The Huffington Post, 9 March 2013. Andrew Hilton’s production of King Lear, currently at Bristol’s Tobacco Factory until March 24, is a gripping rendition of Shakespeare’s most distressing tragedy, unadorned by heavy-handed gimmicks and sensitive to the text. As usual with anyShakespeare at the Tobacco Factory production, part of its strength comes from its excellent […]
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. Talking to the Audience By Bethany Prottey For an English undergraduate, my earliest experiences of Shakespeare were surprisingly uninspired. At the age of fourteen I was just one bored teenager […]
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. Sonnet Sunday, 22 April 2012 at The Globe, London By Rob Hand As part of the World Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare’s Globe is devoting the first six-and-a-half weeks of its […]