Measure for Measure, The Factory Theatre @ The Willow Globe (Y Glôb Byw) Reviewed by Eoin Price (Swansea University) The Willow Globe (Y Glôb Byw) is an enchanting theatre woven from willow that stands on an organic farm at Penlanole near Llandrindod Wells in mid-Wales. Beyond its green walls sheep graze in an adjacent field. […]
Reviewed by Eoin Price Why do we go to plays? Is it to see extraordinary fictions, or to watch people like us? On the one hand, we know we are entertained by illusion, on the other, we know that these illusions are performed by actors, who may or may not be ‘people like us’ but […]
Reviewed by Eoin Price Macbeth is a play by turns familiar and strange. It is one of the most quotable and quoted plays in Shakespeare’s canon and is performed regularly, by professional and amateur companies alike, yet it is a play which features witches and in which, it is said, horses, breaking loose from their […]
1 Henry IV, directed by Gregory Doran for the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, 16 April 2014 Review by Eoin Price Gregory Doran’s Henry IV began where his Richard II left off. As King Henry (here played by Jasper Britton, rather than Nigel Lindsay) acknowledged his guilt at deposing the anointed […]
A Privy Mark Review by Eoin Price So I missed one of the big theatrical events of the year: The Duchess of Malfi, the first production at the Globe’s Sam Wanamaker Playhouse and I’ll have to content myself with the news that it is to be screened on the BBC. It was a shame to miss it, […]
The Alchemist, directed by Paul Burbridge for Riding Lights Company at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, 22 February 2014 Review by Eoin Price A version of this review was first published on asidenotes.wordpress.com on 23 February 2014. Paul Burbridge relocated his Belgrade Theatre production of Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist to Coventry, trading Jacobean London references for […]
