Directed by Lars Romann Engel for HamletScenen at Kulturværftet, Elsinore, Denmark, 5 March 2014. Review by Kiki Lindell Arriving at Elsinore is always best by sea. On the ferry from the Swedish side of the straits, you see Kronborg Castle emerging from the mist, suspended between heaven and earth on its peninsula; an outpost of […]
A Winter’s Tale Common Ground Touring Theatre, dir. by Hannah Davies and Tom Cornford, Friargate Theatre, York, 11 March 2014. Review by Sarah Olive I had spent the day of this performance writing about oral history interviews on Shakespearean theatre as a ‘people’s critique’ worthy of sustained, scholarly attention in performance history. Then two of my department’s PhD […]
Macbeth, directed and adapted by Richard Engling for Polarity Ensemble Theatre at the Greenhouse Theater Center in Chicago, Illinois, 22 February 2014. Review by Regina Buccola. In the program for the Polarity Ensemble Theatre (PET) production of Macbeth, director Richard Engling asserts that Macbeth emerges in his production as a scapegoat in the strictest sense […]
The Alchemist, directed by Paul Burbridge for Riding Lights Company at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, 22 February 2014 Review by Eoin Price A version of this review was first published on asidenotes.wordpress.com on 23 February 2014. Paul Burbridge relocated his Belgrade Theatre production of Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist to Coventry, trading Jacobean London references for […]
Dir. Josie Rourke. NT Live broadcast seen 30/1/2014 at Stratford-upon-Avon Picturehouse Review by Will Sharpe (Originally published on his blog, sharpe as a pen, on 1 March 2014.) A Coriolanus that couldn’t be seen live for love nor money. I wonder why. Cramming Tom Hiddleston – subject of the molten desire of millions – into a space […]
Macbeth (The Notes), based on Shakespeare’s Macbeth, devised and directed by Dan Jemmett, written by Dan Jemmett and David Ayala for Compagnie des Petites Heures, Sortie Ouest, Béziers, France, 15 January 2014, stalls, left. Review by Florence March and Janice Valls-Russell, IRCL, Université Montpellier 3 Dan Jemmett’s engagement with Shakespeare has connections with France’s Languedoc […]
Coriolanus, directed by Nuno Cardoso for Ao Cabo Teatro @ Teatro Nacional Dona Maria II, Lisbon, Portugal. Seen on 25th January, 2014 Review by Francesca Rayner An economic and social crisis on the scale of the one that currently afflicts Portugal brings forth unlikely heroes. The judges of the Constitutional Court, for example, have […]
Directed by Robynn Rodriguez. Set by Robert Mark Morgan. Costumes by Bill Black. Lighting by Donna Ruzika. Composer/Sound by Barry G. Funderburg. Dramaturg Michael Flachmann. Choreographer Stephanie Ivers. Fights by Jason Armit. With Corey Jones (King John), Zack Powell (Prince Henry) Jeanne Paulsen (Queen Eleanor) Steve Wojtas (Philip the Bastard). Fredric Stone (Philip King of […]
Review by Andrew Cowie In the 1990s a group of actors and musicians from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama got together to see how they might make work together. In 2006 their theatre company, Filter, was successful enough to be commissioned by the RSC to stage a production of Twelfth Night for the […]
The Tempest at Örkény Theatre, Budapest, 2013 An Initiation to …. growing up? life? love? sex? teenagers?? Review by Gabriella Reuss … all the blessings of a glad father compass thee about! “People of my age don’t frequent the theatre, you know” my eldest daughter of fourteen explained as we were walking towards the theatre in […]
