A Warning for Fair Women, Directed by Brent Griffin, Resurgens Theatre Company, Atlanta, GA, USA. November 20, 2018. Reviewed by Meg F. Pearson, University of West Georgia Southern enthusiasts of non-Shakespearean drama enjoy an embarrassment of riches from the Resurgens Theatre Company. The company is devoted to original productions and the verse dramas of Shakespeare’s […]
Richard III, translated and directed by Jack Nieborg, Shakespeare Theater Diever, The Netherlands, 3 September 2016 Reviewed by Paul Franssen (Utrecht University) This year, the venerable Diever Shakespeare festival celebrated its 70th anniversary. Ever since the Second World War, this village in the North of the Netherlands has staged a Shakespeare production during the summer […]
Romeo and Juliet dir. Danielle Irvine, Perchance Theatre in Shakespearean performance at Cupids (NL), 2016 Reviewed by Rob Ormsby The seventh season of Shakespearean performance at Cupids (NL) extends the traditions that theatregoers have become accustomed to there. The cast includes actors familiar from past seasons, though the company (Perchance theatre since 2014; formerly known […]
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by The City Theater, directed by Lindsay McKenna, Austin, Texas. July 9, 2016. Reviewed by Michael Saenger Supposedly, Yogi Berra once turned down an invitation to a particular restaurant, saying, “Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.” Something similar could be said about A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which is probably the […]
Let’s party until we cry!: Romeo and Juliet by The Flanagan Collective, 2015. Reviewed by Zsolt Almási (Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Hungary) When entering the auditorium to watch Romeo and Juliet by the The Flanagan Collective at Gyula, Hungary, one was immediately caught up in an unexpected situation. The chairs were arranged parallel to the walls […]
This post is part of Year of Shakespeare, a project documenting the World Shakespeare Festival, the greatest celebration of Shakespeare the world has ever seen. The Winter’s Tale or Ìtàn Ògìnìntìn, Renegade Theatre (Nigeria), dir. Olúwǫlé Ogúntókun, 25 May 2012 at The Globe, London By Julie Sanders, University of Nottingham There are no bears in Nigeria, […]
