The Taming of the Shrew [Poskromienie złośnicy], dir. Katarzyna Deszcz, Stefan Żeromski Theatre in Kielce, Poland. Premiere: 12 April 2014 www.teatr-zeromskiego.com.pl Reviewed by Jacek Fabiszak There is not denying the fact that Shrew in the Western world poses a serious challenge. For a variety of reasons: because it is mysoginistic, because it cannot match the complexity […]
Directed by Elise Davison for Taking Flight Theatre Company at Cyfarthfa Castle, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. 14 June 2014. Reviewed by Evelyn O’Malley Taking Flight Theatre Company aims ‘to work with groups of people who have traditionally been under-represented in theatre’ (2014 online), creating inclusive performances and challenging perceptions of (dis)ability. This promenade production of As You […]
Twelfth Night; directed by Andreas Forner Lindahl for Shakespeare på Gräsgården at the Bridgettine monastery, Vadstena. Date seen: 22 July, 2014. Reviewed by Kent Hägglund Before the early 1980s, it was very unusual to get to see more that five Swedish Shakespeare productions per year. However, in 1983, there were suddenly ten, and that has continued […]
The Taming of the Shrew, dir. Małgorzata Warsicka for Lodz Film School at Studyjny Theatre in Łódź, Poland. January – March 2014. Reviewed by Magdalena Cieślak When the Lodz Film School took up The Taming of the Shrew for their Acting Department diploma performance, it was imperative for me to go and see it. Partly, to compare it […]
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 […]
Directed by Wayne Jordan. 30th April 2014. Reviewed by Emer McHugh The Abbey Theatre’s production of Twelfth Night acts as a deliberate intervention into a very important conversation. In January 2014, Rory O’Neill, otherwise known as the drag artist and ‘gender discombobulist’ Panti Bliss, remarked on national television that ‘[t]he only place that… it’s okay […]
Directed by Maria Kjærgaard-Sunesen for The Royal Danish Theatre at The Royal Danish Playhouse. 23 May 2014. Lacquer red doors opening smoothly and silently at the slightest touch, black floors polished to a dull gleam reflect hazy shadows back up at us, warm, golden lightbulbs framing square mirrors bathe the scene in a glow like […]
Directed by Lise Bruneau for Taffety Punk Theatre Company at the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, Washington, DC, United States of America, 4 October 2013 Review by Katherine Bradshaw, George Washington University. When a friend and I sat down for Taffety Punk Theatre Company’s Titus Andronicus, I was torn between excitement and apprehension. As an enthusiastic repeat “T-Punk” audience […]
The Taming of the Shrew, unknown director, for Jaracza Theatre, Łódź, Poland, 24 October 2013. https://www.teatr-jaracza.lodz.pl/poskromienie.html Review by Agnieszka Rasmus In his review of Michael Bogdanov’s RSC production in 1978, Michael Billington famously wondered “whether there is any reason to revive a play which seems totally offensive to our age and society” (qtd. in Thompson 2003:17). […]
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. Macbeth: Leïla & Ben – A Bloody History, Artistes Productuers Associés, dir. Lotfi Achour, Northern Stage, Newcastle Upon Tyne, 13 July 2012 By Adam Hansen, University of Northumbria Ted […]
