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 […]
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 […]