“Sad Stories of the Death of Kings”: Richard II and Edward II, by Scena Mundi Theatre Company (https://www.scenamundi.co.uk) at the Church of St. Bartholomew the Great, London, 20 June 2015 Reviewed by Joseph F. Stephenson (Abilene Christian University, Texas) According to the back of the programme for this event, Scena Mundi “celebrates classical […]
Antony and Cleopatra, directed by Jim Warren for the resident company at ASC, VA. 13 September, 2015. By Peter Kirwan (University of Nottingham) Although Staunton’s Blackfriars was constructed first, my experience of it comes through having seen several shows previously in the Globe’s Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. Virginia’s theatre feels very like the Wanamaker, if the […]
PLEASE CONTINUE (HAMLET) directed by Yan Duyvendak and Roger Bernat, New Classics of Europe Festival, Stefan Jaracz Theatre, Łódź, Poland. 10 November, 2014 Reviewed by Agnieszka Rasmus (University of Łódź) https://www.nowaklasyka.pl/prosze.html Łódź boasts an interesting international festival called “New Classics of Europe” during which every year a number of inspiring, challenging, and acclaimed productions from all over the world […]
The Winter’s Tale, directed by Elise Davison for Taking Flight Theatre Company at Blaise Castle, Bristol. 25 July 2015 Reviewed by Evelyn O’Malley I attended Taking Flight’s The Winter’s Tale at Blaise Castle, towards the end of its run and towards the end of the Bristol Shakespeare Festival. The promenade performance began on a warm […]
Romeo and Juliet, translated and directed by Jack Nieborg, Shakespeare Theater Diever, The Netherlands, 22 September 2015. Reviewed by Paul Franssen, Utrecht University The Diever open-air theatre has undergone a transformation over the last two years. Rather than a proscenium arch or thrust stage, last year a catwalk model was introduced, with a narrow heightened stage, […]
Inside Hamlet, Staged by Odyssé, a participatory agency with experience in transmedia, digital storytelling, role playing, larp and co-creative participatory events. Kronborg Castle, Elsinore, Denmark, 6 March, 2015. www.insidehamlet.com “The Actors Are Come Hither”: Hamlet as LARP Reviewed by Kiki Lindell ‘Inside Hamlet it set in an alternate reality where the French revolution never […]
The Comedy of Errors / La comedia de las equivocaciones: A Bilingual Adaptation, edited by David Navarro and Joe Falocco, and directed by Joe Falocco. Reviewed by Michael Saenger, Southwestern University Language seems like one of the least interesting aspects of theater. Most of us are used to attending performances that use the predominant language of […]
Hamlets; directed by Daniel Tyler for The Young REP at the Birmingham Library, Birmingham, UK. 21 March 2015, [the only] matinee. Reviewed by Thea Buckley and Sara Marie Westh Hamlet and Hamlet is the singular traditional pinnacle of theatrical achievement, the measuring stick held up to the actor’s self and the world. But with great […]
Directed by Aileen Gonslaves, 12 July 2015 Reviewed by Evelyn O’Malley The stranded fishing boats in Luke Jerram’s art installation Withdrawn provoke questions: how did they get there? What circumstances have left them washed up, abandoned, wrecked in the National Trust’s Leigh Woods and far from the sea; and what might the wrecks remember, what […]
Directed and adapted by Tiago Rodrigues, based on a translation by Rui Carvalho Homen. Performers: Sofia Dias and Victor Roriz Date seen: 13th June, 2015 Reviewed by Francesca Rayner Within the Shakespeare canon, Antony and Cleopatra has been entirely absent from Portuguese theatre history. In fact, the only performance registered at all is a 1987 […]
