Cymbeline at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, University Theatre, Boulder CO., August 5, 2016 Reviewed by Harriet Archer Starring a wicked stepmother, a death-like sleep, a last-minute reprieve by a servant, and the platonic kindness of some rustic strangers, Shakespeare’s Cymbeline looks very like the story of Snow White at times, and Disney’s Snow White at that. The Colorado Shakespeare Festival company took this […]
Richard III, translated and directed by Jack Nieborg, Shakespeare Theater Diever, The Netherlands, 3 September 2016 Reviewed by Paul Franssen (Utrecht University) This year, the venerable Diever Shakespeare festival celebrated its 70th anniversary. Ever since the Second World War, this village in the North of the Netherlands has staged a Shakespeare production during the summer […]
Kesäyön uni (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), directed by Esa Leskinen for Ryhmäteatteri, performed at the Suomenlinna Summer Theater, Helsinki, Finland. Date seen: 31 August 2016 Reviewed by Nely Keinänen Just getting to the Suomenlinna Summer Theater is an adventure: first a short ferry from the Helsinki Market Square to the island fortress of Suomenlinna, then […]
The Merry Wives of Windsor, directed by Susan Gayle Todd and produced by the Austin Scottish Rite Theater and The Weird Sisters Women’s Theater Collective. At the Austin Scottish Rite Theater, August 3, 2016 Reviewed by Michael Saenger Whatever you might think is Shakespeare’s greatest play, Falstaff is almost certainly his greatest character. Shakespeare was […]
Review of Murray McGibbon’s King Lear in Original Pronunciation by Terri Bourus When I took my seat in the Wells-Metz theater in Bloomington for Murray McGibbon’s staging of King Lear, the first thing I noticed in the theatre-in-the-round set, was a stack of old tires, placed so that they were just at my feet, in the […]
The Alchemist, dir. Jenny Eastop for Mercurius Theatre (https://www.mercuriustheatre.co.uk/). The Rose Theatre, London, 11 June 2016. Reviewed by Joseph F. Stephenson Mercurius Theatre and its award-winning director/producer Jenny Eastop have enjoyed a fruitful relationship with The Rose Theatre in recent years. The company’s deft hand with non-Shakespearean early modern drama has been evidenced by […]