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Pericles, Yohangza, dir. Yang Jung-ung @ TJ Towol theatre, Seoul Arts Centre, Korea, November 2016

Pericles, Yohangza, dir. Yang Jung-ung, TJ Towol theatre, Seoul Arts Centre, Korea. 23 November 2016, 3pm matinee. Reviewed by Sarah Olive I recently attended the Asian Shakespeare Association conference in Dehli, where the disoriented spectator was having a field day: the concept from theatre criticism, that is, rather than a person (though […]

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Anglocentrism, Arabian Night’s Tales, Asia, Asian Shakespeare Association, Christy Desmet, Cleopatra, disoriented spectator, East, Elizabeth Taylor, Globe to Globe Festival, King John, Korea, Korean, location, Michael Dobson, Pericles, props, race, Sarah Olive, Seoul, Seoul Arts Centre, Sesame Street, Spatial disorientation, stage space, staging, taboo, TJ Towol theatre, Troilus and Cressida, Venus Anadyomene, West, Yang Jung-Ung, Yohangza, Yoo In-chon
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Taming of the Shrew, EDP, dir. Hyon-u Lee @ Korean Cultural Centre, London, August 2016Comedy

Taming of the Shrew, EDP, dir. Hyon-u Lee, Korean Cultural Centre, London. 8 August 2016 By Sarah Olive If you read this before 20th August this year and your curiosity is piqued, you can catch this one-hour Shrew at the Edinburgh Fringe. I’ve known about the production for nine months, since I visited Seoul to […]
Year of Shakespeare: Shakespeare in Borrowed RobesResources, Year of Shakespeare

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. By Alexa Alice Joubin, George Washington University Can Shakespeare’s plays give a “local habitation” to the “airy nothing” of globalization? Shakespeare is proclaimed, once again, the bearer of […]

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