Hamlet (directed by Lars Romann Engel for the 2017 Shakespeare Festival at Hamlet’s Castle, Kronborg Castle, Elsinore, Denmark. Seen: 3 August, 2017. https://hamletscenen.dk/en/platforms/the-shakespeare-festival/hamlet-2017-uk/ The review also makes brief reference to Ophelia – Noh (idea and script: Ujin Sakurama), performed by the Tokyo-based Koh Lo Sha Noh company at the 2017 Shakespeare Festival at Hamlet’s Castle, […]
Romeo och Julia (edited and directed by Dag Norgård; Romeo: Sven Wollter, Julia: Evabritt Strandberg; music: Ensemble Mare Balticum). Language: Swedish. Lunds Stadsteater, Lund, Sweden. Seen 27 September, 2016. Out of Joint (written/edited and directed by Omar Elfarouk and Johannes Löf for Lunds Studentteater). Language: English. Akademiska Föreningen, Lund, Sweden. Seen on 15 December, […]
Directed by Ragna Weisteen for Sommarteater på Krapperup in Höganäs, Sweden, 25 July, 2014. Reviewed by Kiki Lindell I saw this production with a group of my students who recently studied and played Romeo and Juliet themselves (in English, at Lund University). Beforehand, they laughingly acknowledged that they fully intended to remain unimpressed, and prefer […]
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 Lars Romann Engel for HamletScenen at Kulturværftet, Elsinore, Denmark, 5 March 2014. Review by Kiki Lindell Arriving at Elsinore is always best by sea. On the ferry from the Swedish side of the straits, you see Kronborg Castle emerging from the mist, suspended between heaven and earth on its peninsula; an outpost of […]
In optimistic defiance of the depressingly reliable unreliability of the Northern summer, there is usually a good deal of outdoor theatre to be enjoyed in Sweden in June, July and August. Recently, I joined a party of Shakespeare enthusiasts in climbing-boots and windcheaters on the rocky peninsula of Kullaberg, a nature reserve in southern Sweden, […]
