Timon of Athens by Teatro Praga at the Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal, 2019 Reviewed by Francesca Rayner After years of non-performance in Portugal, Timon of Athens has been produced twice in the past few years; firstly in a production directed by Nuno Cardoso in 2018 and now in 2019 in a performance […]
Richard III at Teatro Nacional Dona Maria II, Lisbon, Portugal. 2015. Reviewed by Francesca Rayner (Universidade do Minho) The opening and closing moments of this Richard III framed the defining features of the performance. At the start, dancer Romeu Runa established the contours of the performance space by running at breakneck speed in a circle […]
Directed and adapted by Tiago Rodrigues, based on a translation by Rui Carvalho Homen. Performers: Sofia Dias and Victor Roriz Date seen: 13th June, 2015 Reviewed by Francesca Rayner Within the Shakespeare canon, Antony and Cleopatra has been entirely absent from Portuguese theatre history. In fact, the only performance registered at all is a 1987 […]
AS YOU LIKE IT, directed by BEATRIZ BATARDA for ARENA ENSEMBLE, at TEATRO CARLOS ALBERTO, PORTO, PORTUGAL. Seen on 22nd February 2014. Reviewed by Miguel Ramalhete Gomes Having premiered at roughly the same time as Nuno Cardoso’s highly political Coriolanus, Beatriz Batarda’s production of As You Like It for Arena Ensemble was often coupled with […]
UNPERFECT ACTOR (ACTOR IMPERFEITO), an adaptation by Luísa Costa Gomes of Shakespeare’s sonnets, directed by ANTÓNIO PIRES for TEATRO DO BAIRRO (LISBOA), at TEATRO CARLOS ALBERTO, PORTO, PORTUGAL. Seen on 1st February 2014. Reviewed by Miguel Ramalhete Gomes Stage performances based on Shakespeare’s sonnets have come to occupy a rare though often special presence in […]
Coriolanus, directed by Nuno Cardoso for Ao Cabo Teatro @ Teatro Nacional Dona Maria II, Lisbon, Portugal. Seen on 25th January, 2014 Review by Francesca Rayner An economic and social crisis on the scale of the one that currently afflicts Portugal brings forth unlikely heroes. The judges of the Constitutional Court, for example, have […]
