A Midsummer Night’s Dream, dir. Danielle Irvine, July 21, 2018 at Perchance Theatre in Cupids (NL) Reviewed by Tracy O’Brien Perchance is an open-air theatre modeled after Shakespeare’s Globe, and was built with local wood and sail canvas in 2010 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of John Guy’s settlement in the area. Nestled in the […]
Titus Andronicus; directed by Paata Tsikurishvili for Synetic Theater, Arlington, Virginia, USA. May 19, 2018. Reviewed by Justin B. Hopkins, Franklin and Marshall College. Titus Andronicus is Synetic Theater’s thirteenth entry in its wordless Shakespeare series. (Note: For convenience, I will refer to the play as Shakespeare’s, though I acknowledge the consensus that it was a […]
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. West Side Story, choreographed and directed by Will Tuckett, 4 July 2012 at the Sage, Gateshead By Monika Smialkowska, University of Northumbria Like most of us, I first encountered […]
