The Tempest at Örkény Theatre, Budapest, 2013 An Initiation to …. growing up? life? love? sex? teenagers?? Review by Gabriella Reuss … all the blessings of a glad father compass thee about! “People of my age don’t frequent the theatre, you know” my eldest daughter of fourteen explained as we were walking towards the theatre in […]
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 […]
The Taming of the Shrew, unknown director, for Jaracza Theatre, Łódź, Poland, 24 October 2013. https://www.teatr-jaracza.lodz.pl/poskromienie.html Review by Agnieszka Rasmus In his review of Michael Bogdanov’s RSC production in 1978, Michael Billington famously wondered “whether there is any reason to revive a play which seems totally offensive to our age and society” (qtd. in Thompson 2003:17). […]
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 […]
In an interview in The Independent newspaper Maria Aberg, director of this season’s As You Like It at the RSC, acknowledged the play’s reputation as ‘lightweight and insubstantial’ and I must admit it’s one I struggle with. On paper it’s got everything; comedy, love interest and drama but all too often the comedy misfires, the love stories meander and the […]
Much Ado About Nothing, directed by Mark Rylance. The Old Vic, London, September 2013. As we entered the Old Vic for Mark Rylance’s production of Much Ado About Nothing, songs of the 1940s played over the loudspeakers; the programme (which included much propaganda for the Shakespeare-didn’t-write-Shakespeare cause) claimed that the Second World War setting ‘serves […]
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 […]
Originally published on The Bardathon, 3 November 2011. Writing about web page https://www.filtertheatre.com/page/Coming_Soon/ Filter’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream marks the company’s second foray into Shakespeare, following its sublime and irreverent Twelfth Night. The company specialise in a form of deconstructed theatre, treating performances as “gigs” where all the machinery of performance – instruments, sound boxes, stage management, cast – […]
Originally published on The Bardathon, 13 December 2009. Writing about web page https://www.twogentsproductions.com/wordpress/ Two Gents Productions are a three-man company made up of performers Denton Chikura and Tonderai Munyevu, and director Arne Pohlmeier. As their name suggests, the company was founded as a result of the trio’s work on their devised production of Two Gentlemen of Verona, retitled Vakomana Vaviri ve Zimbabwe. While the […]
