Julius Caesar, directed by Mirjam Koen, Het Zuidelijk Toneel, Stadsschouwburg Utrecht, the Netherlands, 25 March 2014. Review by Paul Franssen (Utrecht University) This modern dress production foregrounded the dangers of stirring up populist sentiments by skilled rhetoricians, and the disastrous consequences this might have, with a glance to the rise of populist politics in […]
Othello, Dir. Kate Buckley for the Utah Shakespeare Festival. Anes Studio Theatre, Cedar City, Utah, Sept. 8, 2018. Reviewed by Porter Lunceford (Weber State University) The Utah Shakespeare Festival’s Othello was put on this year as part of the theme of tolerance. “The idea of intolerance and the adverse effects of intolerance on humanity runs […]
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. 2008: Macbeth, dir. Grzegorz Jarzyna (TR Warszawa), Edinburgh International Festival, 16 August 2012 at the Royal Highland Centre, Lowland Hall, Edinburgh By Aneta Mancewicz, Central School of Speech and […]
Hamlet, dir. Jan Klata, Schauspielhaus Bochum, Gdańsk, Poland, 4 October 2014. https://www.festiwalszekspirowski.pl/index.php Reviewed by Magdalena Cieślak With Hamlet, perhaps more that with other plays, one always waits for the first words. Is it going to be “Who’s there?”, or are they going straight for Claudius’s speech? Or maybe they’ll start with Hamlet’s soliloquy? There are many possibilities. […]
Julius Caesar, Eileen and Allen Anes Studio Theatre, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Cedar City UT, Tuesday 18th October 2016 Reviewed by Harriet Archer ‘Julius Caesar’ can feel like a misnomer for a play whose eponymous figure is usually murdered just before the interval, and whose moral vision is as slippery as its rhetoric. Dramatizing the conspiracy by […]
Macbeth, directed and adapted by Richard Engling for Polarity Ensemble Theatre at the Greenhouse Theater Center in Chicago, Illinois, 22 February 2014. Review by Regina Buccola. In the program for the Polarity Ensemble Theatre (PET) production of Macbeth, director Richard Engling asserts that Macbeth emerges in his production as a scapegoat in the strictest sense […]
Antony and Cleopatra, Directed by John Blondell, at the Bitola Shakespeare Festival, Macedonia, 22-28 July 2015 Reviewed by Randall Martin The annual Bitola Shakespeare Festival, now in its third year, opened with a visually evocative and powerfully moving Antony and Cleopatra in Macedonian by the National Theatre Bitola, directed by John Blondell of the Lit Moon Theatre […]
Hamlet, directed by Kemal Aydoğan and translated by Onur Ünsal and Emre Adıyaman at the Moda Sahnesi Theatre, Istanbul, Turkey Reviewed by Anna Carleton Forrester, University of Georgia One does not have to be well-versed in Turkish or in Shakespeare to appreciate the intention and artistry behind Kemal Aydoğan’s Hamlet of the Moda Sahnesi […]
Hamlet, directed by Sheri Lee Miller, with original soundscape by Nancy Hayashibara, Spreckels Theatre Company, at the Spreckels Performing Arts Center, Rohnert Park, California Reviewed by John Langdon The California wine country is not London, Chicago, or New York, and there aren’t always as many options for Shakespearean playgoers. To be sure, dedicated companies are […]
