Edward II, directed by Nick Bagnall, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, 4 March, 2019. Cast: Annette Badland, Richard Bremmer, Richard Cant, Polly Frame, Jonathan Livingstone, Sanchia McCormack, Colin Ryan, Tom Stuart, Beru Tessema, Katie West. Reviewed by: Geoffrey Allman, Maeve Barker, Emily Cline, Caitlyn Clinton, Alexander Dunn, Christopher Hayes, Meghan Jennings, Will Jones, Margaret Lohuis, Connor Mulvena, Leah […]
Tamburlaine by Christopher Marlowe. Adapted and directed by Ng Choon Ping for Yellow Earth Theatre at the Old Fire Station, Oxford, 13 April 2017. Reviewed by Peter Malin All textual references are to Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine the Great: Parts I and II, ed. by John D. Jump, Regents Renaissance Drama Series (London: Arnold, 1967). […]
Edward II by Christopher Marlowe. Directed by Charlotte Vickers for Oxford University Dramatic Society et al., Oxford Playhouse, 28 January 2017. Reviewed by Peter Malin References to the play are to Christopher Marlowe, Edward the Second, ed. by Martin Wiggins and Robert Lindsey, New Mermaids, 2nd edn (London: A. & C. Black, […]
Troilus and Cressida at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre, Boulder CO., August 4 2016 Reviewed by Harriet Archer Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida is a difficult work, sulky and intractable like so many of its characters. It is not a tragedy, or a comedy, or a history, or a romance. It is not really about its eponymous lovers, who […]
Review by Peter Kirwan Originally published on The Bardathon, 9 September 2013. Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II is an obvious companion piece to Shakespeare’sRichard II, both dealing with the deposition of a king arguably more preoccupied with his friends and sycophants than with his kingdom, and the two have been performed together frequently (including most famously with Ian McKellen […]
