Restoration era incidental music to The Tempest, Pyramus & Thisbe, Opera Restor’d/Hand Made Opera, York International Shakespeare Festival, Musical dir. Peter Holman, National Centre for Early Music, York, 10 May 2015 Reviewed by Sarah Olive (University of York) This Sunday afternoon concert, held in the converted church that houses the National Centre for Early Music (and had been my polling station […]
Richard III at Teatro Nacional Dona Maria II, Lisbon, Portugal. 2015. Reviewed by Francesca Rayner (Universidade do Minho) The opening and closing moments of this Richard III framed the defining features of the performance. At the start, dancer Romeu Runa established the contours of the performance space by running at breakneck speed in a circle […]
Hamlet: Drama of Vengeance – directed by Sven Gade, Heinz Schall for Silents Now at the York International Shakespeare Festival at Jack Lyons Concert Hall, University of York. 9 May 2015 Reviewed by Sarah Olive, University of York This is the first instalment in a series of around ten reviews which I’ll be writing to celebrate the […]
King Lear, Oxford Theatre Guild, Merton College, Oxford, 11 July 2015. Reviewed by Peter Malin References to the play are to William Shakespeare, King Lear, ed. by R. A. Foakes, Arden Shakespeare Third Series (Walton-on-Thames: Nelson, 1997). Between the work of Michael Dobson and the RSC’s ongoing Open Stages project, amateur theatre has acquired a level of […]
Volpone at the Royal Shakespeare Company (https://www.rsc.org.uk) Swan Theater, Stratford-upon-Avon, 17 July 2015. Reviewed by Joseph F. Stephenson Sir Trevor Nunn’s assignment for his return engagement with the Royal Shakespeare Company turned out to be Ben Jonson’s tricky 1606 play Volpone. The resulting concoction—a modernistic production set in present-day London rather than seventeenth-century Venice—leaves the […]
Measure for Measure – directed by Dominic Dromgoole for Shakespeare’s Globe at The Globe Theatre, London. July 15, 2015. Reviewed by Audrey Schaffner https://www.shakespearesglobe.com/ The Globe Theatre’s comedic, raucous, and sometimes bawdy production of Measure for Measure, which plays through October 17, effectively portrays the out-of-control Vienna in Shakespeare’s play. Literal houses of prostitution populate the […]
Hambret – Shakespeare in Almagro 2014, Festival Internacional de Teatro Clásico de Almagro, La Veleta, 18 July 2014 Reviewed by Isabel Guerrero Cast and Creative Team Actors: Ana Planes, Roser Vallvé, David Bocian, Julia Rabadan, Julieta Dentone, Angela F. Palacios, Karla Ontiveros, Camilo Zaffora, Mario González Aragón, Patrick Martino Director and adaptation: Jessica Walker Video: Esther Anrill […]
