YEAR OF SHAKESPEARE: King Lear, in 80 minutes: Konzert Theater Bern (director: Lisa Nielebock, stage design: Sascha Gross, translation [or rather adaptation]: Werner Buhss). Konzert Theater Bern presents a Lear that probably rates an entry in the Guinness book of records for brevity (if we disregard the Lear sequence in The Complete Shakespeare [abridged]): The […]
Review by Markus Marti Selam Habibi, as one might not immediately recognize, is the ‘German’ title of one of the most popular plays by Shakespeare. It is, according to the production’s subtitle Die ganz vorzügliche und höchst beklagenswerte Geschichte von Romeo und Julia (The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet), and it gets performed […]
