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. In a Pickle, Oily Cart/Royal Shakespeare Company, dir. Tim Webb, 28 June 2012, at the Northern Stage, Newcastle upon Tyne By Adam Hansen, University of Northumbria This production did […]
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Shit-faced Shakespeare, Magnificent Bastards Productions, at the Spider House, Austin, Texas. January 22, 2016 Reviewed by Michael Saenger, Southwestern University A preparatory note: random numbers are surprisingly difficult to generate. Computer programs often need them, especially in games and in encryption software, but computers and mathematics have a hard time generating randomness. The old fashioned […]
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 […]