The Merry Wives of Windsor, directed by Paweł Aigner for The Gdańsk Shakespeare Theatre at The Gdańsk Shakespeare Theatre, Gdańsk, Poland. 2015 Reviewed by Urszula Kizelbach The Merry Wives of Windsor (2015) – Shakespeare reloaded in the Gdańsk Shakespeare Theatre During the 19th Shakespeare Festival in Gdańsk the audience knew the Polish director Paweł Aigner prepared […]
Romeo & Julia. Puppet Theater. Directed by Merja Pöyhönen for Aura of Puppets and Tehdas Teatteri. Visiting production at the Oulu City Theater. 20 March 2016 Reviewed by Nely Keinänen This provocative production of Romeo & Julia [Romeo and Juliet] is set in a garbage dump, the kind of garbage dump which is growing […]
’Tis Pity She’s a Whore by John Ford Directed by Declan Donnellan for Cheek by Jowl at Oxford Playhouse (on tour), 7 February 2012 Reviewed by Peter Malin References to the play are to John Ford, ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore, ed. by Martin Wiggins, New Mermaids, 2nd edn (London: A. & C. Black, 2003) In just under […]
ROMEO vs. JULIA [ROMEO vs. JULIET]. Adaptation by Lauri Sipari and Liisa Urpelainen. Directed by Laura Jäntti for KOM Theatre, Helsinki, Finland. 3 February, 2015. Reviewed by Nely Keinänen The blurb for Lauri Sipari and Liisa Urpelainen’s Romeo vs. Juliet reads as follows: “Romeo and Juliet die in the tomb; that is tragedy. But […]
Performed by Emily Barber (Imogen), Calum Callaghan (Cloten), Trevor Fox (Pisanio), Darren Kuppan (Arviragus), Christopher Logan (Cornelius), Joseph Marcell (Cymbeline), Pauline McLynn (Queen), Eugene O’Hare (Iachimo), Brendan O’Hea (Belarius), Jonjo O’Neill (Posthumus), Dharmesh Patel (Soothsayer, Philario), Tika Peucelle (Mother, Helen), Paul Rider (Caius Lucius), and Sid Sagar (Guiderius). Directed by Sam Yates. Music composed by […]
Kings of War; directed by Ivo van Hove for Toneelgroep Amsterdam at Museumsquartier, Vienna, Austria. Seen on 5th June 2015 Reviewed by Ludwig Schnauder Ivo van Hove first introduced himself and the Toneelgroep Amsterdam in Vienna in 2008 with his superb Romeinse Tragedies (Roman Tragedies), an adaptation of Coriolanus, Julius Caesar and Anthony and Cleopatra. […]
Edward II by Christopher Marlowe; directed by Nora Schlocker for Schauspielhaus Wien, Theater Basel and Wiener Festwochen at Schauspielhaus Wien, Vienna, Austria. Seen on 31st May 2015 Reviewed by Ludwig Schnauder “Edward II. Die Liebe bin ich by Ewald Palmetshofer after Christopher Marlowe”, this is the full title of this co-production by Schauspielhaus Wien, […]
