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. Macbeth: Leïla & Ben – A Bloody History, Artistes Productuers Associés, dir. Lotfi Achour, Northern Stage, Newcastle Upon Tyne, 13 July 2012 By Adam Hansen, University of Northumbria Ted […]
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. The Rest is Silence, dreamthinkspeak, 29 June 2012, at the Northern Stage, Newcastle upon Tyne By Adam Hansen, University of Northumbria In Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Critic as Artist’ (1890-91), […]
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. The Dark Side of Love, directed by Renato Rocha and co-directed by Keziah Serreau, 5 July 2012 at the Roundhouse, London By Sonia Massai, King’s College London At the beginning of this 45-minute promenade […]
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. At the end of May Yukio Ninagawa’s Cymbeline was performed at the Barbican in London, as part of the World Shakespeare Festival. John Lavagnino saw it there and reviewed it for […]
I was moved to write this blog when I read Anjna’s thoughts on the play in her recent post. Gregory Doran’s production of Julius Caesar received five star reviews in The Sunday Times and The Independent on Sunday and four stars almost everywhere else. The cast is fantastic, the design is brilliant and the production […]
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. Sharing History: South Sudan Theatre Company’s Cymbeline at the Globe By Colette Gordon, University of Cape Town Pondering how much audiences really know about South Sudan, as she describes her […]
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. King Lear, Belarus Free Theatre, 17-18 May 2012 at The Globe, London By Keren Zaiontz, University of Roehampton In their radically adapted version of King Lear, performed in Belarusian, exiled company Belarus Free Theatre refashions […]
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. Three Arabic Shakespeares, Putting Words into our Mouths By Saffron Walkling, York St John University Cymbeline directed by Joseph Abuk and Derik Uya Alfred and performed by South Sudan Theatre Company, […]
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. Hamlet, Meno Fortas, dir. Eimuntas Nekrošiu, 2 June 2012 at The Globe, London By Stephen Purcell, University of Warwick Eimuntas Nekrošius’ Hamlet (or Hamletas) is undoubtedly an important production. It has been touring […]
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. Cymbeline, The Ninagawa Company, dir. by Yukio Ninagawa, 2 June 2012 at the Barbican Theatre, London By John Lavagnino, King’s College London Ninagawa directs Cymbeline as though there’s nothing much […]
