I, Banquo written by Tim Crouch, directed by Elliot Wallis, SE Theatre Company, Attic Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, Sunday, 25 November 2018 (centre stalls) Reviewed by Kath Bradley Having been fascinated by Tim Crouch’s previous plays inspired by Shakespeare’s lesser characters (I, Malvolio and I, Cinna (the poet),) I looked forward with eager anticipation to this perspective […]
Booth’s Richard III, produced by the Hidden Room and The Harry Ransom Center at the Austin Scottish Rite Theater. Directed by Beth Burns. Austin, Texas, June 16, 2018. Reviewed by Michael Saenger. Fame and infamy come very close together, and always have. To be famous is to do something extraordinary, or to be someone who […]
Hamlet (directed by Lars Romann Engel for the 2017 Shakespeare Festival at Hamlet’s Castle, Kronborg Castle, Elsinore, Denmark. Seen: 3 August, 2017. https://hamletscenen.dk/en/platforms/the-shakespeare-festival/hamlet-2017-uk/ The review also makes brief reference to Ophelia – Noh (idea and script: Ujin Sakurama), performed by the Tokyo-based Koh Lo Sha Noh company at the 2017 Shakespeare Festival at Hamlet’s Castle, […]
Rahm (Measure for Measure), written and produced Mahmood Jamal, dir. Ahmed Jamal, Rahm Films Limited, HKC Entertainment, 2016 Reviewed by Dr. Thea Buckley, The Shakespeare Institute This week marks seventy years since India and Pakistan became separate countries, the joy of Independence marred by the trauma of a Partition that turned brother against brother. Millions of […]
The History of Cardenio. By Gary Taylor, John Fletcher, William Shakespeare, and Miguel de Cervantes; Directed by Gerald Baker for Richmond Shakespeare Society in association with Cutpurse; at The Mary Wallace Theatre, Twickenham; 19th March 2017. Reviewed by Kim Gilchrist, University of Roehampton This performance of Professor Gary Taylor’s adapted text The History of […]
Hamlet: Koko Totuus [Hamlet: The Whole Truth]. Adaptation by Ville Kurki and ensemble, based on the translation into Finnish by Matti Rossi. Directed by Ville Kurki for Grus Theater, performed at the Turku Castle, Turku, Finland. 1 February, 2017. Reviewed by Nely Keinänen It was a very cold and dark winter night when my two theater […]
Lady M, written by Annechien Koerselman, Annemarie de Bruijn, David Geysen and Radna Diels. English translation by Marlous Lang-Peterse. Performance by Annemarie de Bruijn, het Vijfde Bedrijf. Koninklijke Schouwburg, The Hague, 26 November 2016 Review by Paul Franssen (Utrecht University) The sound of bagpipes evokes a sense of place. A young woman, with […]
Macbeth @ Esplanade Studios, Singapore, 2016 Reviewed by Kevin Riordan The banquet scene closes with one of the most striking images in Full Show Lane Studio’s Macbeth. Banquo’s ghost, in partial drag, pushes Macbeth in a wheelchair, almost caringly. The chair has become a moving throne that bears the regent’s now-exhausted body. As they wheel […]
Las Alegres Casadas (Merry Wives of Windsor) at the Festival Internacional de Teatro Clásico de Almagro, Espacio Miguel Narros, 17 July 2015 Reviewed by Isabel Guerrero CAST AND CREATIVE TEAM Cast: Maite Redín, Patxi Perez, Adriana Olmedo, Natalia Díaz and Fernando Romo Director and adaptation: Andrés Lima Setting design: Beatriz San Juan Lighting design: Koldo Tainta […]
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 […]
