Miranda; directed by Oskaras Koršunovas for OKT/Vilnius City Theatre in Vilnius, Lithuania, 17 July 2011. Reviewed by Paweł Schreiber The daughter The title of Oskaras Koršunovas’s performance is, significantly, not The Tempest, but Miranda. In Shakespeare’s play she is one of the most straightforward characters, a naive young girl always subordinated to a man with […]
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. Hamlet, Meno Fortas, dir. Eimuntas Nekrošiu, 2 June 2012 at The Globe, London By Stephen Purcell, University of Warwick Eimuntas Nekrošius’ Hamlet (or Hamletas) is undoubtedly an important production. It has been touring […]
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. In Praise of Translation: On Watching Shakespeare in a Foreign Language By Margherita Laera, Queen Mary University of London You might not agree with me but, in recent years, I […]
