Richard III, Directed by Garry Hynes for DruidShakespeare, White Lights Festival, Lincoln Center, Gerald W. Lunch Theater at John Jay College, November 7-23, 2019, Reviewed on November 23, 2019. Reviewed by James Loehlin. Druid is a leading Irish theatre company based in Galway, perhaps best known for premiering contemporary work like Martin McDonagh’s The Beauty Queen […]
Much Ado About Nothing, directed by Sierra Trinchet for New World Shakespeare Company, at the Wasatch Theatre Company, Salt Lake City, Utah, 8 September 2019. Reviewed by David W. Hartwig (Weber State University) New World Shakespeare Company’s raison d’etre is to make Shakespeare’s works accessible to modern audiences. The company has adopted a race-blind and […]
The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster, Directed by Beth Burns for The Hidden Room, York Rite Masonic Hall, Austin TX, Sept 27 – Oct 20, 2019, reviewed on October 20, 2019 (www.hiddenroomtheatre.com). Reviewed by James Loehlin, University of Texas The Duchess of Malfi extends the Hidden Room Theatre’s project of marshalling historical performance techniques for potent contemporary […]
Measure for Measure, translated and directed by Jack Nieborg, Shakespeare Theater Diever, The Netherlands, 7 September 2019. Review by Paul Franssen (Utrecht University) As usual in Diever, the auditorium was split in two by the narrow central stage. Spectators were faced with the one-dimensional outline of a row of houses in the middle, and churches […]
Hamlet directed by K.D. Schmidt for the Mainz State Theatre, Mainz, Germany. March 13, 2019 And A Midsummer Night’s Dream directed by Hilmar Jónsson for the National Theatre of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland. March 16, 2019. Reviewed by Justin B. Hopkins I went on holiday to Germany, with a long layover in Iceland on the way […]
Richard II, directed by Joe Hill-Gibbins for the Almeida Theatre (https://almeida.co.uk/). The Almeida Theatre, London, 9 January, 2019. Reviewed by Joseph F. Stephenson Two popular casting trends in recent years of Shakespeare productions are star-driven—in which a major star, often from film or television, plays the main role—and small cast—in which a cast much smaller […]
A Warning for Fair Women, Directed by Brent Griffin, Resurgens Theatre Company, Atlanta, GA, USA. November 20, 2018. Reviewed by Meg F. Pearson, University of West Georgia Southern enthusiasts of non-Shakespearean drama enjoy an embarrassment of riches from the Resurgens Theatre Company. The company is devoted to original productions and the verse dramas of Shakespeare’s […]
Othello, Dir. Kate Buckley for the Utah Shakespeare Festival. Anes Studio Theatre, Cedar City, Utah, Sept. 8, 2018. Reviewed by Porter Lunceford (Weber State University) The Utah Shakespeare Festival’s Othello was put on this year as part of the theme of tolerance. “The idea of intolerance and the adverse effects of intolerance on humanity runs […]
Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare, directed by Gregory Doran, RSC, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, Thursday 18 October and Wednesday 14 November 2018. Reviewed by Peter Malin All quotations from the play are from the 1987 New Penguin edition, ed. by R. A. Foakes Academic theatre reviewing should sometimes, I think, consist of more […]
King Lear, translated and directed by Jack Nieborg, Shakespeare Theater Diever, The Netherlands, 8 September 2018. Reviewed by by Paul Franssen (Utrecht University) This year, the Diever amateur theatre had chosen King Lear for their annual production. In line with some other recent stage adaptations of Shakespeare plays, the tragedy was set in the world of […]
