Macbeth @ Esplanade Studios, Singapore, 2016 Reviewed by Kevin Riordan The banquet scene closes with one of the most striking images in Full Show Lane Studio’s Macbeth. Banquo’s ghost, in partial drag, pushes Macbeth in a wheelchair, almost caringly. The chair has become a moving throne that bears the regent’s now-exhausted body. As they wheel […]
El sueño de una noche de verano/ Uda gau bateko ametsa, (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) Teatro Arriaga, April 2016 Reviewed by Elizabeth Jeffery Director & Castilian translator: Pablo Viar; Basque translator: Jon Koldo Vázquez Cast: Gabriel Ocina (Teseo); Eneritz Artetxe (Hipólita); Chema Trujillo (Filóstrato); Antonio Rupérez (Egeo); Aritza Rodríguez (Puck); Joseba Apaolaza (Oberon); Itziar […]
Las Alegres Casadas (Merry Wives of Windsor) at the Festival Internacional de Teatro Clásico de Almagro, Espacio Miguel Narros, 17 July 2015 Reviewed by Isabel Guerrero CAST AND CREATIVE TEAM Cast: Maite Redín, Patxi Perez, Adriana Olmedo, Natalia Díaz and Fernando Romo Director and adaptation: Andrés Lima Setting design: Beatriz San Juan Lighting design: Koldo Tainta […]
Richard III by The Baron’s Men, directed by Joe Falocco, at Garriott’s Curtain Theatre, Austin, Texas. April 7, 2016. Reviewed by Michael Saenger, Southwestern University Richard III is a savage, and Richard III is guilty pleasure. Theoretically, it’s a play that supports the Tudor myth; that is, a play that portrays a dastardly bad […]
Where did Shakespeare’s money come from (Part 2)? By Dr David Fallow In an earlier post, Dr Robert Bearman put over the traditionally received view of where Shakespeare’s money came from, and how he made it. Here, Dr David Fallow, an economic historian and financial expert (University of Exeter), makes a compelling revisionist case for […]
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Where did Shakespeare’s money come from? In a two-part blog, for the Royal Mint, we thought it would be good to ask two experts who have very different views about Shakespeare and how he made his money… By Dr Robert Bearman, former Former Head of Archives and Local Studies etc. at The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. […]
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Richard II at Shakespeare’s Globe (https://www.shakespearesglobe.com). The Globe Theatre, London, July 2015 Reviewed by Joseph F. Stephenson As Andrew Gurr has written in the preface to the New Cambridge edition of the play, “Richard II is one of the most extraordinary of all the Shakespearean crown jewels,” though it has not been performed perhaps […]
