Hamlet, directed by Federay Holmes and Elle While for Shakespeare’s Globe, (www.shakespearesglobe.com). The Globe Theatre, London, 17 July, 2018. Reviewed by Parker T. Gordon (University of St Andrews) For the Globe’s production of Hamlet, Michelle Terry, in the title role, delivered a focused, sober-minded performance. The character’s ‘antic disposition’ (1.5.192),[1] physically depicted through the […]
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, […]
Hamlet, Örkény Theatre, Budapest, Hungary 21 March 2014, directed by László Bagossy Reviewed by Natália Pikli Shakespeare’s Prince, Brecht and a football stadium: this strange combination has rattled the theatrical landscape of Budapest in the last few months, with all performances sold out in the season and countless reviews following the first night, which actually was held […]
