Review by Rob Ormsby Much has been made of the convention of “Original Practices” (OP) on display in the King John currently playing in the Tom Patterson Theatre at Ontario’s Stratford Festival. These practices appear at the Tom Patterson in the form of a bare wooden stage illuminated by real and simulated candles (augmented by […]
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 […]
Twelfth Night. Directed by Ben McLemore and performed by The City Theatre, Austin, Texas. 31 May, 2014. Review by Michael Saenger (Southwestern University) Twelfth Night is often viewed as the greatest of Shakespeare’s comedies; his early ones show so much optimism that they win less respect, and his later efforts become so dark that it […]
Directed by Lucy Bailey, Globe Theatre, London, 31 May 2014. Review by Steve Orman Being somewhat squeamish when it comes to violence, particularly of the bloody kind, I had a feeling that Lucy Bailey’s Titus Andronicus, a revival of her popular 2006 production, would be something that I would have to endure rather than […]
Sport for Jove. York Theatre, Seymour Centre, Sydney. Director Damien Ryan. 9 April 2014. Reviewed by Penny Gay Sport for Jove is a repertory company, devoted mainly to energetic and innovative Shakespeare productions, founded in 2009 by actors Damien Ryan and Terry Karabelas. The company have had great success from the get-go, generally playing in neglected out-of-Sydney areas, […]
Sport For Jove. Directed by Damien Ryan, York Theatre, Seymour Centre, Sydney, 3 April 2014. Reviewed by Penny Gay Paired defensively with the ever-popular Twelfth Night (see separate review), Sport for Jove’s fifteenth full-scale production needed no excuse – it was simply the best production of this ‘problem’ play I’ve ever seen. The only one, in short, to […]
1 Henry IV, directed by Gregory Doran for the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, 16 April 2014 Review by Eoin Price Gregory Doran’s Henry IV began where his Richard II left off. As King Henry (here played by Jasper Britton, rather than Nigel Lindsay) acknowledged his guilt at deposing the anointed […]
Review by Peter Kirwan Originally published on The Bardathon, 6 April 2014 There was an awful moment in the closing night of the new Liverpool Everyman’s inaugural production of Twelfth Night, as Malvolio’s yellow stockings emerged, feet uppermost, through a trapdoor for an inverted prison sequence. The mechanism lifting the actor was misdirected, meaning that his […]
Antony and Cleopatra at the Public Originally published on stevementz.com on 3 March 2014. Review by Steve Mentz About half a minute into the performance, when Jonathan Cake’s impossibly tall and shirtless Antony strained heavenward while commanding Rome to melt into the Tiber, my eleven-year old daughter Olivia, seeing the play for the first time, […]
A Privy Mark Review by Eoin Price So I missed one of the big theatrical events of the year: The Duchess of Malfi, the first production at the Globe’s Sam Wanamaker Playhouse and I’ll have to content myself with the news that it is to be screened on the BBC. It was a shame to miss it, […]
