Julia & Romeo; directed by Jussi Nikkilä for the Finnish National Theater in Helsinki, Finland. Adaptation by Anna Viitala based on a translation by Marja-Leena Mikkola. 4 Oct 2018 Reviewed by Nely Keinänen (University of Helsinki) In 2016, the director Jussi Nikkilä did an excellent production of Richard III on one of the smaller stages […]
Directed by Jan Klata for Teatr Polski in Wrocław and Staatsschauspiel Dresden at Teatr Wybrzeże, Gdańsk Shakespeare Festival, Poland. 3 August 2013. Reviewed by Aneta Mancewicz As a co-production between Teatr Polski in Wrocław and Staatsschauspiel Dresden, Jan Klata’s Titus Andronicus premiered in Wrocław on 15 September 2012 and in Dresden on 28 September 2012. […]
Reviewed by Rob Ormsby The Stratford Festival’s King Lear takes a timeworn kick at the emotional-realist / Shakespeare-plus relevance can. Director Antoni Cimolino presses his actors to convey every last one of their emotions as plainly as possible and encourages us to see the purportedly timeless significance of the play’s social critiques by adding a […]
Hamlet, directed by Dominic Dromgoole for the Globe to Globe Hamlet On Tour, Gdańsk Shakespeare Theatre, Gdańsk, 20 September 2014, centre gallery, lower level, centre right. Reviewed by Janice Valls-Russell Flown in from Grenada, in the Caribbean, en route for Kazakhstan, the sixteen members of the Globe to Globe Hamlet dropped their trunks and musical […]
Troilus and Cressida at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre, Boulder CO., August 4 2016 Reviewed by Harriet Archer Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida is a difficult work, sulky and intractable like so many of its characters. It is not a tragedy, or a comedy, or a history, or a romance. It is not really about its eponymous lovers, who […]
ROMEO AND JULIET Vera Komissarzhevskaya Theatre, St Petersburg, Russia National Theatre Bitola, Macedonia Director Dejan Projkovski Review by Randall Martin This was a bilingual Macedonian and Russian production of Romeo and Juliet performed by the Vera Komissarzhevskaya Theatre, St Petersburg and the National Theatre Bitola. The 850-seat theatre – the largest of the National Theatre’s […]
Coriolanus, directed by Nuno Cardoso for Ao Cabo Teatro @ Teatro Nacional Dona Maria II, Lisbon, Portugal. Seen on 25th January, 2014 Review by Francesca Rayner An economic and social crisis on the scale of the one that currently afflicts Portugal brings forth unlikely heroes. The judges of the Constitutional Court, for example, have […]
Directed and adapted by Tiago Rodrigues, based on a translation by Rui Carvalho Homen. Performers: Sofia Dias and Victor Roriz Date seen: 13th June, 2015 Reviewed by Francesca Rayner Within the Shakespeare canon, Antony and Cleopatra has been entirely absent from Portuguese theatre history. In fact, the only performance registered at all is a 1987 […]
Hamlet. Abbatoir Fermé. Stadsschouwburg Utrecht, 5 November 2017 Reviewed by Paul Franssen (Utrecht University) Among the first intelligible words that Hamlet utters in this production is his speech on man, the “paragon of animals,” which yet “delights not [him].” Hamlet’s doubts about human nature seem to be confirmed throughout, more than the more optimistic view […]
Originally published on The Bardathon, 25 August 2008. After years of not knowing what answer to give, I recently finally decided that Timon of Athens is my favourite Shakespeare play. Structurally it’s fascinating, built in recurring circles of action that allow examinations of the varoius character types from a variety of angles. The language, as befits a Middleton collaboration, […]
