Review of King Lear directed by Sinéad Dunphy and Declan Wolfe for the Cork Shakespearean Company at the Unitarian Church, Cork. 30th October 2015 Reviewed by Edel Semple (e.semple@ucc.ie), University College Cork The advertising poster for the Cork Shakespearean Company’s production of King Lear promised a Lear “as you have never seen him before”. Our initial […]
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. Coriolanus, Chiten Theatre Company, Dir. Motoi Miura, 21 May 2012 at The Globe, London By Adele Lee, University of Greenwich It might be assumed that a Japanese theatre company performing Coriolanus would […]
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. Henry VI Part Three, National Theatre of Bitola, dir. by John Blondell, 13 May 2012 at The Globe, London By Pete Orford Clearly no-one told the Macedonians that the history plays are […]