Hamlet, directed by Dominic Dromgoole for the Globe to Globe Hamlet On Tour, Gdańsk Shakespeare Theatre, Gdańsk, 20 September 2014, centre gallery, lower level, centre right. Reviewed by Janice Valls-Russell Flown in from Grenada, in the Caribbean, en route for Kazakhstan, the sixteen members of the Globe to Globe Hamlet dropped their trunks and musical […]
The Comedy of Errors, directed by Gordon Barr, the Macrobert Arts Centre, Stirling, 4 July 2014, right stalls. Reviewed by Stéphanie Mercier The Glaswegian ‘Bard in the Botanics’ production of The Comedy of Errors at the Macrobert Arts Centre on the Stirling University campus was both part of the troupe’s 2014 season and the British […]
Le Conte d’hiver (The Winter’s Tale), translated by Daniel Loayza, directed by Patrick Pineau, La Coursive, Scène nationale, La Rochelle, France, 13 November 2013, right stalls; Béziers Ouest, Béziers, France, 21 mars, centre stalls. Review by Stéphanie Mercier (Poitiers university) Patrick Pineau’s production of Daniel Loayza’s unpublished translation of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale made its debut […]
Othello, translated by Norman Chaurette, directed by Léonie Simaga, Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier, Comédie-Française, Paris, 25 April 2014, middle stalls. Review by Stéphanie Mercier If Leontes has his reason stolen by interior fiends, the outward malignancy of this Iago’s (Nâzim Boudjenah) demonic machinations almost steals the show here – but not quite. What prevents the play […]
Macbeth (The Notes), based on Shakespeare’s Macbeth, devised and directed by Dan Jemmett, written by Dan Jemmett and David Ayala for Compagnie des Petites Heures, Sortie Ouest, Béziers, France, 15 January 2014, stalls, left. Review by Florence March and Janice Valls-Russell, IRCL, Université Montpellier 3 Dan Jemmett’s engagement with Shakespeare has connections with France’s Languedoc […]
Au moins j’aurai laissé un beau cadavre [At least I will have left a beautiful corpse], adapted from Hamlet and directed by Vincent Macaigne, Avignon Festival, Cloître des Carmes, Avignon, 10 July 2011, tiered-seating, centre rear. Review by Florence March The actors are already there, singing, dancing, clapping and inviting us to join in. The fourteenth-century […]
Twelfth Night, directed by Edward Hall, Théâtre des Amandiers, Nanterre, 24 and 27 November 2012, mid stalls. By Stéphane Huet Edward Hall’s Propeller company chose the Théâtre des Amandiers in Nanterre for the first performance in France of its magnificent Twelfth Night, a play that exists at the edges, along borders between genders, households, life and […]
Macbeth, directed by Lynne Parker, The Lyric Theatre, Belfast, 24 November 2012, stalls back left. By Laura Campbell The tragic hero is not the focal point of this production. Lynne Parker has shifted the focus of power to the rest of the characters in order to emphasise the impact of cyclic violence on an entire […]
Coriolan/us, directed by Mike Pearson and Mike Brookes for National Theatre Wales, Hangar 858, RAF St. Athan, Vale of Glamorgan, 15th August 2012. By Harry Fox Davies Hangar 858 at RAF St Athan on the coast of South Wales was both the theatre space and setting for Coriolan/us. Infused with Bertolt Brecht’s 1950s adaptation of […]
