The Merchant of Venice, Bell Shakespeare Company, Melbourne Arts Centre, 30 July 2017. Directed by Anne-Louise Sarks Bell Reviewed by Penny Gay, The University of Sydney Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, a production which will tour many Australian towns and cities before concluding in Sydney in October, is the company’s first return to the play since an unremarkable version in […]
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 […]
