Measure for Measure, translated and directed by Jack Nieborg, Shakespeare Theater Diever, The Netherlands, 7 September 2019. Review by Paul Franssen (Utrecht University) As usual in Diever, the auditorium was split in two by the narrow central stage. Spectators were faced with the one-dimensional outline of a row of houses in the middle, and churches […]
King Lear, translated and directed by Jack Nieborg, Shakespeare Theater Diever, The Netherlands, 8 September 2018. Reviewed by by Paul Franssen (Utrecht University) This year, the Diever amateur theatre had chosen King Lear for their annual production. In line with some other recent stage adaptations of Shakespeare plays, the tragedy was set in the world of […]
Rahm (Measure for Measure), written and produced Mahmood Jamal, dir. Ahmed Jamal, Rahm Films Limited, HKC Entertainment, 2016 Reviewed by Dr. Thea Buckley, The Shakespeare Institute This week marks seventy years since India and Pakistan became separate countries, the joy of Independence marred by the trauma of a Partition that turned brother against brother. Millions of […]
Measure for Measure – directed by Dominic Dromgoole for Shakespeare’s Globe at The Globe Theatre, London. July 15, 2015. Reviewed by Audrey Schaffner https://www.shakespearesglobe.com/ The Globe Theatre’s comedic, raucous, and sometimes bawdy production of Measure for Measure, which plays through October 17, effectively portrays the out-of-control Vienna in Shakespeare’s play. Literal houses of prostitution populate the […]
Since I Suppose. One Step at a Time Like This, for Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Chicago, Illinois. Aug. 28-Sept. 21. 2014. Reviewed by Regina Buccola. Early morning, an e-mail arrives with directions to a specific street corner, delivered via a funny YouTube video. It is laugh out loud funny, creating the sense that the unusual, “immersive” […]
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. Measure for Measure, Vakhtangov Theatre, dir. Yury Butusov, 25 April 2012 at The Globe, London By Sarah Olive, University of York Not entirely unexpectedly, marriages were scarce on the […]
