Lear, Primeiros Sintomas dir. Bruno Bravo @ Teatro Nacional Dona Maria II, Lisbon, 2017 Reviewed by Francesca Rayner, Universidade do Minho As the title suggests, the emphasis in Bruno Bravo’s production was on the man rather than the king. Or rather, the woman playing the role of the man as the main character here was played […]
Romeo and Juliet, dir. Scott Wentworth, Stratford Festival at Stratford, Ontario, Canada, 2017 Reviewed by Tracy O’Brien Director Scott Wentworth writes in the playbill for the Stratford Festival’s Romeo and Juliet, “When we look at the hate speech around us today, we see our world hasn’t progressed far beyond the Capulets and the Montagues.” Perhaps […]
Hamlet (directed by Lars Romann Engel for the 2017 Shakespeare Festival at Hamlet’s Castle, Kronborg Castle, Elsinore, Denmark. Seen: 3 August, 2017. https://hamletscenen.dk/en/platforms/the-shakespeare-festival/hamlet-2017-uk/ The review also makes brief reference to Ophelia – Noh (idea and script: Ujin Sakurama), performed by the Tokyo-based Koh Lo Sha Noh company at the 2017 Shakespeare Festival at Hamlet’s Castle, […]
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 […]
Titus Andronicus at The RST, dir. Blanche McIntyre, 1/7/2017. Reviewed by Sara Marie Westh The red warning posters warns prospective audience members at the RST that the play they are about to see is Shakespeare’s bloodiest, and that it contains “bad language”. The former statement is undoubtedly true, while the latter appears to pass judgement of […]
Hamlet. Directed by Robert Icke, for The Almeida Theatre, London. Seen 1st March, 2017. https://almeida.co.uk/ By Dr. Eleanor Rycroft, Bristol University Robert Icke has developed a reputation for shedding light on classic plays as Associate Director at the Almeida in recent years, notably through productions of Uncle Vanya, Oresteia, and a crystal clear version of […]
Romeo och Julia (edited and directed by Dag Norgård; Romeo: Sven Wollter, Julia: Evabritt Strandberg; music: Ensemble Mare Balticum). Language: Swedish. Lunds Stadsteater, Lund, Sweden. Seen 27 September, 2016. Out of Joint (written/edited and directed by Omar Elfarouk and Johannes Löf for Lunds Studentteater). Language: English. Akademiska Föreningen, Lund, Sweden. Seen on 15 December, […]
King Lear at the Old Vic, dir. Deborah Warner, Friday 28th October 2016 Reviewed by Ronan Hatfull, University of Warwick During the interval of the Old Vic’s current production of King Lear, which is directed by Deborah Warner and significantly marks two-time Academy Award winner Glenda Jackson’s return to the stage after serving as an […]
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 […]
#ImogenReclaimed at the Globe (2016) Reviewed by Urszula Kizelbach, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań Much as we may wonder why Cymbeline, one of Shakespeare’s last comedies, was included in the section of “Tragedies” in the First Folio, it is no longer surprising the moment we see the play performed at the Globe stage. Matthew Dunster’s production […]
