This is Yukio Ninagawa’s eighth production of Hamlet and it’s on tour in the year of his eightieth birthday although this year, for the first time, he is too ill to travel with his own show. This also marks the thirtieth anniversary of Ninagawa’s first visit to the UK with the ‘cherry blossom’ Macbeth which […]
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. At the end of May Yukio Ninagawa’s Cymbeline was performed at the Barbican in London, as part of the World Shakespeare Festival. John Lavagnino saw it there and reviewed it for […]
