Coriolanus, dir. Josie Rourke. NTL broadcast seen on 08.05.2014 at Kino Silver Screen Łódź, Poland Come for Hiddleston, stay for Shakespeare Reviewed by Magdalena Popłońska and Katarzyna Bresler Only a few years ago if we wanted to see a National Theatre Live broadcast in Poland, it would mean travelling more than 200 kilometres to a tiny […]
Dir. Josie Rourke. NT Live broadcast seen 30/1/2014 at Stratford-upon-Avon Picturehouse Review by Will Sharpe (Originally published on his blog, sharpe as a pen, on 1 March 2014.) A Coriolanus that couldn’t be seen live for love nor money. I wonder why. Cramming Tom Hiddleston – subject of the molten desire of millions – into a space […]
Coriolanus, directed by Nuno Cardoso for Ao Cabo Teatro @ Teatro Nacional Dona Maria II, Lisbon, Portugal. Seen on 25th January, 2014 Review by Francesca Rayner An economic and social crisis on the scale of the one that currently afflicts Portugal brings forth unlikely heroes. The judges of the Constitutional Court, for example, have […]
Coriolan/us, directed by Mike Pearson and Mike Brookes for National Theatre Wales, Hangar 858, RAF St. Athan, Vale of Glamorgan, 15th August 2012. By Harry Fox Davies Hangar 858 at RAF St Athan on the coast of South Wales was both the theatre space and setting for Coriolan/us. Infused with Bertolt Brecht’s 1950s adaptation of […]
Last spring we launched A Year of Shakespeare – an energetic record and review of all 73 productions which took place in the World Shakespeare Festival. Today, those reviews, by 30 international contributors, are published as A Year of Shakespeare: Re-living the World Shakespeare Festival. It’s well illustrated and represents another innovation from Bloomsbury publishing […]
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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. Coriolan/us, National Theatre Wales and Royal Shakespeare Company, Dir. Mike Pearson and Mike Brooks, 8 August 2012, at Hangar 858, RAF St Athan, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. By Alun Thomas, Cardiff University […]
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. Coriolanus, Chiten Theatre Company, Dir. Motoi Miura, 21 May 2012 at The Globe, London By Adele Lee, University of Greenwich It might be assumed that a Japanese theatre company performing Coriolanus would […]
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. As You Like It, Marjanishvili State Academic Drama Theatre (Georgian), dir. by Levan Tsuladze, 18 May 2012 at The Globe, London By Georgie Lucas, Shakespeare Institute My first thought was that the Marjanishvili […]
The editors of The Stage newspaper have asked me to write a piece commemorating fifty years of the RSC. This has made me delve into memories of more than half a century’s Stratford theatre-going. I came here first for a short holiday in 1954, when I saw four plays. My main memories are of Barbara […]
