Rahm (Measure for Measure), written and produced Mahmood Jamal, dir. Ahmed Jamal, Rahm Films Limited, HKC Entertainment, 2016 Reviewed by Dr. Thea Buckley, The Shakespeare Institute This week marks seventy years since India and Pakistan became separate countries, the joy of Independence marred by the trauma of a Partition that turned brother against brother. Millions of […]
Cymbeline, directed by Sâmir Bhamra for Phizzical at the Grand Opera House, Belfast, Northern Ireland. 29 October 2013. Review by Sonja Kleij, Romano Mullin, and Matt Williamson. It is clear from the start that this is no ordinary production. As Cymbeline begins, the two leads appear to a blast of Indian pop, brandishing microphones and […]
At the 14th annual Bharat Rang Mahotsav theatre festival in New Delhi, India, audiences had the choice of performances by companies from all over the world. Way ahead of the U.K.’s World Shakespeare Festival, this year’s BRM included, among its 93 productions in 27 languages, a Kannada-language version of Hamlet (from Karnataka in southwest India); […]
