Hyde Park, dir. Mike Cordner for the University of York Department of Theatre, Film and Television (https://www.york.ac.uk/tftv/). Scenic Stage Theatre, University of York, 9 June 2016. Reviewed by Joseph F. Stephenson Hyde Park is a masterpiece of Caroline theatre. Written in 1632, the play represents a precocious early effort by James Shirley, a writer […]
Richard III, Almeida, dir. Rupert Goold, Almeida Live. Royal Spa Centre cinema, Leamington. 21 July 2016. By Sarah Olive BardFeed 5 ways in which this Richard III is totally on trend that don’t involve comparing the protagonist and Michael Gove (that’s soooo passé). Applauding archaeology Archaeology is hot right now (literally, for those […]
Macbeth, directed by Lucas de Man. Het Zuidelijk Toneel. Stadsschouwburg Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 6 May 2016 Review by Paul Franssen, Utrecht University The Macbeth of this production is clearly our contemporary. He inhabits a world of video conferencing and talk shows at home, of airstrikes and roadside explosive devices at the battle front. Yet, this […]
Breath of Kings: Rebellion and Breath of Kings: Redemption, Stratford Festival, Dir. Weyni Mengesha and Mitchell Cushman, Assoc. Dir. Graham Abbey, at Tom Patterson Theatre, Stratford, Ontario, Canada. June 22, 2016 Reviewed by Regina Buccola Within a three-month span this summer I will have seen the first part of Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s epic march through […]
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by The City Theater, directed by Lindsay McKenna, Austin, Texas. July 9, 2016. Reviewed by Michael Saenger Supposedly, Yogi Berra once turned down an invitation to a particular restaurant, saying, “Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.” Something similar could be said about A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which is probably the […]
Recreating Shakespeare: You are my destiny (Lo stupro di Lucrezia) 12th World Theatre Festival, Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb, 26 September 2014 Reviewed by Remedios Perni Universidad Isabel I / Universidad de Murcia, Spain CAST AND CREATIVE TEAM Cast: Joele Anastasi, Ugo Giacomazzi, Fabián Augusto Gómez Bohórquez, Julian Isenia, Lola Jiménez, Andrea Lanciotti, Angélica Liddell, […]
The Taming of the Shrew @ Sport for Jove, Seymour Centre, Sydney, 19 and 28 May 2016 Reviewed by Penny Gay, University of Sydney Sport for Jove’s founding director, Damien Ryan, first mounted this production in 2012, and it returned recently for a brief but welcome re-run. Rather than seeing it in an outer Sydney suburb, I […]
