Reviewed by Kevin Riordan (Nanyang Technological University) At the moment it’s hard for a show in Singapore to not be somehow about Singapore. The nation’s fiftieth birthday—branded “SG50”—approaches this August and theater companies have joined, both wittingly and unwittingly, in this moment of national reflection: The Esplanade (the performing arts center whose exterior alludes to […]
Love’s Labour’s Won [Much Ado About Nothing]: RSC Education Schools Broadcast Royal Shakespeare Company Dir. Christopher Luscombe Royal Shakespeare Theatre/Ravensbourne University 30 April 2015 Much Ado About Nothing, here renamed Love’s Labour’s Won to fit with the RSC’s other offerings during Winter 2014-15, is a play about two people who refuse to countenance that […]
In 2013 I posted an article on this blog saying it’s time a black actor was cast as Iago. Now, in 2015, the RSC has, for the first time, cast a black actor, Lucian Msamati, in the role. Coincidence? Well yes, probably, but if it means Greg Doran, the Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare […]
Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy Lazarus Theatre Company Blue Elephant Theatre, Camberwell 8 October 2013 Reviewed by Peter Malin References to the play are to Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy, ed. by Clara Calvo and Jesús Tronch, Arden Early Modern Drama (London: Bloomsbury, 2013). Ricky Dukes’s cut-down production of Kyd’s tragedy, coming in at 1 […]