Der Sturm [The Tempest], directed by Simone Sterr, Landestheater Tübingen, 4 July 2013. Review by Lisa Peter The tempest of the play’s beginning almost became reality for the press night of Simone Sterr’s open-air production at the Landestheater Tübingen. Heavy clouds over the Neckarparkhaus let audience members and ushers alike get their rain […]
Teatro Circo, Murcia, Spain. 25 October 2013. Cast and Creative Team Actors Victor Duplá, Quique Fernández, Antonio Galeano, Xabier Murúa, Agustín Sasián, Eduardo Ruíz, Javier Tolosa Director Sergio Peris-Mencheta Translation Fundación Shakespeare Assistant director Pepe Lorente Art Director Antonio Vicente Costume desig […]
Mozart’s The Magic Flute, a co-production by English National Opera and Netherlands Opera in collaboration with Complicite. London Coliseum, 7th November – 7th December, 2013. Review by Catherine Alexander A letter from Friedrich Wilhelm Burger to August Schlegel dated 31st October, 1791, a month after the first performance of The Magic Flute in Vienna on […]
The Tempest, directed by Jeremy Herrin, Shakespeare’s Globe, 6 August 2013. Review by Pete Orford This was a troublingly untroubling production. With a group of students in tow, I had primed them all on key themes and characteristics to look for in the drama, not least the colonial echoes in Prospero’s enslavement of Caliban. How would […]
The Tempest Lit Moon Theatre Company, Santa Barbara, USA Director: John Blondell Review by Randall Martin The gritty basement storage area of the Bitola National Theatre looked like a good space for some rough magic. Floor-to-ceiling v-shaped support-beams, with hanging knotted ropes and swinging poles, suggested the deck of a ship or a New World […]
In optimistic defiance of the depressingly reliable unreliability of the Northern summer, there is usually a good deal of outdoor theatre to be enjoyed in Sweden in June, July and August. Recently, I joined a party of Shakespeare enthusiasts in climbing-boots and windcheaters on the rocky peninsula of Kullaberg, a nature reserve in southern Sweden, […]
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 […]
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 […]
