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). […]
King Lear at the Old Vic, dir. Deborah Warner, Friday 28th October 2016 Reviewed by Ronan Hatfull, University of Warwick During the interval of the Old Vic’s current production of King Lear, which is directed by Deborah Warner and significantly marks two-time Academy Award winner Glenda Jackson’s return to the stage after serving as an […]
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, dir. Theu Boermans, Het Nationale Toneel, Koninklijke Schouwburg The Hague, The Netherlands, 20 August 2016. Review by Paul Franssen (Utrecht University) One usually imagines the fairies in Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream as diminutive creatures, small enough to “hang a pearl in every cowslip’s ear” (2.1.15). The Victorians saw them as childlike. […]
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 […]
Kesäyön uni (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), directed by Esa Leskinen for Ryhmäteatteri, performed at the Suomenlinna Summer Theater, Helsinki, Finland. Date seen: 31 August 2016 Reviewed by Nely Keinänen Just getting to the Suomenlinna Summer Theater is an adventure: first a short ferry from the Helsinki Market Square to the island fortress of Suomenlinna, then […]
Macbeth, directed by Lucas de Man. Het Zuidelijk Toneel. Stadsschouwburg Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 6 May 2016 Review by Paul Franssen, Utrecht University The Macbeth of this production is clearly our contemporary. He inhabits a world of video conferencing and talk shows at home, of airstrikes and roadside explosive devices at the battle front. Yet, this […]
H(2)O – Teatr Strefa Otwarta of Wroclaw, York International Shakespeare Festival, Performed and devised by Anna Rakowska and Piotr Misztela, New Schoolhouse Gallery, York. 11 May 2015 Reviewed by Sarah Olive (University of York) I have just walked across town from H(2)O – a devised production based on Hamlet and Ophelia’s relationship in Shakespeare’s play – straight into the Gillygate […]
Let’s party until we cry!: Romeo and Juliet by The Flanagan Collective, 2015. Reviewed by Zsolt Almási (Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Hungary) When entering the auditorium to watch Romeo and Juliet by the The Flanagan Collective at Gyula, Hungary, one was immediately caught up in an unexpected situation. The chairs were arranged parallel to the walls […]
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 […]
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 […]
