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 […]
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 […]
Reviewed by Eoin Price Macbeth is a play by turns familiar and strange. It is one of the most quotable and quoted plays in Shakespeare’s canon and is performed regularly, by professional and amateur companies alike, yet it is a play which features witches and in which, it is said, horses, breaking loose from their […]
Hamlet directed by Yang Jung-Ung for Yohangza Company, Peacock Theatre, London, 12 July 2014. Reviewed by Adele Lee ‘In equal scale weighing delight and dole’ (1.2.13), Yang Jung-Ung’s speedy, shamanistic Hamlet combines elements of farce with melodrama, and popular culture with traditional folklore and ancient gut rituals. Similar to the director’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which […]
Coriolanus, dir. Josie Rourke. NTL broadcast seen on 08.05.2014 at Kino Silver Screen Łódź, Poland Come for Hiddleston, stay for Shakespeare Reviewed by Magdalena Popłońska and Katarzyna Bresler Only a few years ago if we wanted to see a National Theatre Live broadcast in Poland, it would mean travelling more than 200 kilometres to a tiny […]
Othello, translated by Norman Chaurette, directed by Léonie Simaga, Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier, Comédie-Française, Paris, 25 April 2014, middle stalls. Review by Stéphanie Mercier If Leontes has his reason stolen by interior fiends, the outward malignancy of this Iago’s (Nâzim Boudjenah) demonic machinations almost steals the show here – but not quite. What prevents the play […]
Directed by Lucy Bailey, Globe Theatre, London, 31 May 2014. Review by Steve Orman Being somewhat squeamish when it comes to violence, particularly of the bloody kind, I had a feeling that Lucy Bailey’s Titus Andronicus, a revival of her popular 2006 production, would be something that I would have to endure rather than […]
Antony and Cleopatra at the Public Originally published on stevementz.com on 3 March 2014. Review by Steve Mentz About half a minute into the performance, when Jonathan Cake’s impossibly tall and shirtless Antony strained heavenward while commanding Rome to melt into the Tiber, my eleven-year old daughter Olivia, seeing the play for the first time, […]
Hamlet directed by Sándor Zsótér for the University of Theatre and Film Arts at Ódry Színpad, Budapest, Hungary, 13 March 2014. Review by Júlia Paraizs Hamlet is a repertory staple in Hungarian theatres and it firmly holds its position as the ʹrole of rolesʹ. It’s not unusual that there are several productions running simultaneously which inevitably […]
Directed by Lise Bruneau for Taffety Punk Theatre Company at the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, Washington, DC, United States of America, 4 October 2013 Review by Katherine Bradshaw, George Washington University. When a friend and I sat down for Taffety Punk Theatre Company’s Titus Andronicus, I was torn between excitement and apprehension. As an enthusiastic repeat “T-Punk” audience […]
