Much Ado About Nothing by Shit-faced Shakespeare, at the Spider House, Austin, Texas. December 9, 2016 Reviewed by Michael Saenger, Southwestern University Any production that takes place in a bar (attendees were carded) and calls itself “Shit-faced Shakespeare” is clearly not exactly meant to be taken seriously. But the last time I attended this venue, […]
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, dir. Theu Boermans, Het Nationale Toneel, Koninklijke Schouwburg The Hague, The Netherlands, 20 August 2016. Review by Paul Franssen (Utrecht University) One usually imagines the fairies in Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream as diminutive creatures, small enough to “hang a pearl in every cowslip’s ear” (2.1.15). The Victorians saw them as childlike. […]
A Midsummer Night’s Dream/ Uda gau bateko ametsa/ Sueño de una noche de verano @ Cristina Enea Park, San Sebastián, Directors: Fernando Bernués & Iñaki Rikarte, Adaptor & translator: Patxo Telleria, Company: Tanttaka Teatroa Reviewed by Elizabeth Jeffery “Will you miss the wedding of the year?” This year San Sebastián, Basque Country, is Europe’s Capital of Culture, along […]
Kesäyön uni (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), directed by Esa Leskinen for Ryhmäteatteri, performed at the Suomenlinna Summer Theater, Helsinki, Finland. Date seen: 31 August 2016 Reviewed by Nely Keinänen Just getting to the Suomenlinna Summer Theater is an adventure: first a short ferry from the Helsinki Market Square to the island fortress of Suomenlinna, then […]
The Merry Wives of Windsor, directed by Susan Gayle Todd and produced by the Austin Scottish Rite Theater and The Weird Sisters Women’s Theater Collective. At the Austin Scottish Rite Theater, August 3, 2016 Reviewed by Michael Saenger Whatever you might think is Shakespeare’s greatest play, Falstaff is almost certainly his greatest character. Shakespeare was […]
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by The City Theater, directed by Lindsay McKenna, Austin, Texas. July 9, 2016. Reviewed by Michael Saenger Supposedly, Yogi Berra once turned down an invitation to a particular restaurant, saying, “Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.” Something similar could be said about A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which is probably the […]
The Taming of the Shrew @ Sport for Jove, Seymour Centre, Sydney, 19 and 28 May 2016 Reviewed by Penny Gay, University of Sydney Sport for Jove’s founding director, Damien Ryan, first mounted this production in 2012, and it returned recently for a brief but welcome re-run. Rather than seeing it in an outer Sydney suburb, I […]
El sueño de una noche de verano/ Uda gau bateko ametsa, (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) Teatro Arriaga, April 2016 Reviewed by Elizabeth Jeffery Director & Castilian translator: Pablo Viar; Basque translator: Jon Koldo Vázquez Cast: Gabriel Ocina (Teseo); Eneritz Artetxe (Hipólita); Chema Trujillo (Filóstrato); Antonio Rupérez (Egeo); Aritza Rodríguez (Puck); Joseba Apaolaza (Oberon); Itziar […]
