Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare, directed by Gregory Doran, RSC, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, Thursday 18 October and Wednesday 14 November 2018. Reviewed by Peter Malin All quotations from the play are from the 1987 New Penguin edition, ed. by R. A. Foakes Academic theatre reviewing should sometimes, I think, consist of more […]
Hamlet, directed by Federay Holmes and Elle While for Shakespeare’s Globe, (www.shakespearesglobe.com). The Globe Theatre, London, 17 July, 2018. Reviewed by Parker T. Gordon (University of St Andrews) For the Globe’s production of Hamlet, Michelle Terry, in the title role, delivered a focused, sober-minded performance. The character’s ‘antic disposition’ (1.5.192),[1] physically depicted through the […]
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. Love’s Labour’s Lost, Deafinitely Theatre, dir. Paula Garfield, 23 May 2012 at The Globe, London By Kate Rumbold, University of Birmingham It was changeover time at Bankside on a sunny May afternoon: clusters […]
