H(2)O – Teatr Strefa Otwarta of Wroclaw, York International Shakespeare Festival, Performed and devised by Anna Rakowska and Piotr Misztela, New Schoolhouse Gallery, York. 11 May 2015 Reviewed by Sarah Olive (University of York) I have just walked across town from H(2)O – a devised production based on Hamlet and Ophelia’s relationship in Shakespeare’s play – straight into the Gillygate […]
PLEASE CONTINUE (HAMLET) directed by Yan Duyvendak and Roger Bernat, New Classics of Europe Festival, Stefan Jaracz Theatre, Łódź, Poland. 10 November, 2014 Reviewed by Agnieszka Rasmus (University of Łódź) https://www.nowaklasyka.pl/prosze.html Łódź boasts an interesting international festival called “New Classics of Europe” during which every year a number of inspiring, challenging, and acclaimed productions from all over the world […]
The Taming of the Shrew, dir. Małgorzata Warsicka for Lodz Film School at Studyjny Theatre in Łódź, Poland. January – March 2014. Reviewed by Magdalena Cieślak When the Lodz Film School took up The Taming of the Shrew for their Acting Department diploma performance, it was imperative for me to go and see it. Partly, to compare it […]
Coriolanus, dir. Josie Rourke. NTL broadcast seen on 08.05.2014 at Kino Silver Screen Łódź, Poland Come for Hiddleston, stay for Shakespeare Reviewed by Magdalena Popłońska and Katarzyna Bresler Only a few years ago if we wanted to see a National Theatre Live broadcast in Poland, it would mean travelling more than 200 kilometres to a tiny […]
The Taming of the Shrew, unknown director, for Jaracza Theatre, Łódź, Poland, 24 October 2013. https://www.teatr-jaracza.lodz.pl/poskromienie.html Review by Agnieszka Rasmus In his review of Michael Bogdanov’s RSC production in 1978, Michael Billington famously wondered “whether there is any reason to revive a play which seems totally offensive to our age and society” (qtd. in Thompson 2003:17). […]
