Othello, Shakespeare Company of Japan and Pirikap, dir. Kazumi Shimodate and Debo Akibe. Tara Arts, London. 7 August 2019 By Sarah Olive It’s a popular fallacy in Japan that it is difficult to produce Othello because the country is too culturally homogenous: fallacious because, in Japan, there are several marginalised indigenous populations plus zainichi Koreans […]
A Midsummer Night’s Dream/ Uda gau bateko ametsa/ Sueño de una noche de verano @ Cristina Enea Park, San Sebastián, Directors: Fernando Bernués & Iñaki Rikarte, Adaptor & translator: Patxo Telleria, Company: Tanttaka Teatroa Reviewed by Elizabeth Jeffery “Will you miss the wedding of the year?” This year San Sebastián, Basque Country, is Europe’s Capital of Culture, along […]
Romeo / Julia, Dir. Mariken Bijnen, Simon Rowe, Diane Elshout. The Moving Arts Project, June 27, 2015, Steve Bikoplein and October 17, 2015, Stadsschouwburg, Amsterdam. Review by Kristine Johanson (University of Amsterdam) The strains of reggae, the smell of a barbecue, dozens of children, a director high-fiving members of the audience. The atmosphere at the […]
Richard III at Teatro Nacional Dona Maria II, Lisbon, Portugal. 2015. Reviewed by Francesca Rayner (Universidade do Minho) The opening and closing moments of this Richard III framed the defining features of the performance. At the start, dancer Romeu Runa established the contours of the performance space by running at breakneck speed in a circle […]
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. King Lear, Belarus Free Theatre, 17-18 May 2012 at The Globe, London By Keren Zaiontz, University of Roehampton In their radically adapted version of King Lear, performed in Belarusian, exiled company Belarus Free Theatre refashions […]
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. Romeo and Juliet, Grupo Galpão, 19 May 2012 at The Globe, London By Kate McLuskie, Shakespeare Institute The Saturday afternoon crowd, strolling from Waterloo past the Globe enjoyed a man in […]
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. Henry VI Part Three, National Theatre of Bitola, dir. by John Blondell, 13 May 2012 at The Globe, London By Pete Orford Clearly no-one told the Macedonians that the history plays are […]
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. A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Yohangza Theatre Company, Dir. Jung Ung Yang, Globe Theatre, 1 May 2012 at The Globe, London By Adele Lee, University of Greenwich Contrary to most recent performances of A […]
