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 […]
Kings of War; directed by Ivo van Hove for Toneelgroep Amsterdam at Museumsquartier, Vienna, Austria. Seen on 5th June 2015 Reviewed by Ludwig Schnauder Ivo van Hove first introduced himself and the Toneelgroep Amsterdam in Vienna in 2008 with his superb Romeinse Tragedies (Roman Tragedies), an adaptation of Coriolanus, Julius Caesar and Anthony and Cleopatra. […]
Hamlets; directed by Daniel Tyler for The Young REP at the Birmingham Library, Birmingham, UK. 21 March 2015, [the only] matinee. Reviewed by Thea Buckley and Sara Marie Westh Hamlet and Hamlet is the singular traditional pinnacle of theatrical achievement, the measuring stick held up to the actor’s self and the world. But with great […]
Directed by Gregory Doran for the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon, England, 19 November 2014 Reviewed by Eva Griffith According to Martin White’s programme notes for Greg Doran’s 2014 production of The Witch of Edmonton,the original performances of this fact-based tragedy were presented at the Cockpit-Phoenix near Drury Lane in 1621. The […]
AS YOU LIKE IT, directed by BEATRIZ BATARDA for ARENA ENSEMBLE, at TEATRO CARLOS ALBERTO, PORTO, PORTUGAL. Seen on 22nd February 2014. Reviewed by Miguel Ramalhete Gomes Having premiered at roughly the same time as Nuno Cardoso’s highly political Coriolanus, Beatriz Batarda’s production of As You Like It for Arena Ensemble was often coupled with […]
Directed by Robert Richmond for the Folger Theatre at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, United States, 7 February 2014. Reviewed by Katherine L. Bradshaw. Any interpretation of Shakespeare’s Richard III, by definition, contains an impressive – or perhaps oppressive – amount of dark characters and events. After all, the play centers on a murderer […]
Twelfth Night, directed by Paata Tsikurishvili for Synetic Theater at the Synetic Theater, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, 26 January 2014. Reviewed by Katherine L. Bradshaw A stunning interpretation of Twelfth Night sparkled and swirled spectacularly at the Synetic Theater in Arlington, Virginia. As the 10th installment of Synetic’s award-winning “Silent Shakespeare” series, this show combined […]
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, directed by Anna Bergmann for Malmö Stadsteater at Hipp, Malmö, Sweden. 15 April, 2014. Reviewed by Kiki Lindell In the 2014 Shakespeare Birthday Lecture in Stratford-upon-Avon, the director Michael Bogdanov spoke, among other things, about the delights and frustrations of directing in German theatres. Like Peter Brook, Bogdanov believes that we non-native […]
The Alchemist, directed by Paul Burbridge for Riding Lights Company at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, 22 February 2014 Review by Eoin Price A version of this review was first published on asidenotes.wordpress.com on 23 February 2014. Paul Burbridge relocated his Belgrade Theatre production of Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist to Coventry, trading Jacobean London references for […]
Directed by Robynn Rodriguez. Set by Robert Mark Morgan. Costumes by Bill Black. Lighting by Donna Ruzika. Composer/Sound by Barry G. Funderburg. Dramaturg Michael Flachmann. Choreographer Stephanie Ivers. Fights by Jason Armit. With Corey Jones (King John), Zack Powell (Prince Henry) Jeanne Paulsen (Queen Eleanor) Steve Wojtas (Philip the Bastard). Fredric Stone (Philip King of […]
