Romeo and Juliet, translated and directed by Jack Nieborg, Shakespeare Theater Diever, The Netherlands, 22 September 2015. Reviewed by Paul Franssen, Utrecht University The Diever open-air theatre has undergone a transformation over the last two years. Rather than a proscenium arch or thrust stage, last year a catwalk model was introduced, with a narrow heightened stage, […]
ROMEO JA JULIA [ROMEO AND JULIET]; directed by Antti Mikkola for the Seinäjoki City Theater, Seinäjoki, Finland. 25 November 2014. Reviewed by Nely Keinänen I like to think of myself as open-minded about Shakespeare, but at heart I suspect I’m a purist—nothing but the text, please. So I found Antti Mikkola’s adaptation of Romeo […]
Directed by Ragna Weisteen for Sommarteater på Krapperup in Höganäs, Sweden, 25 July, 2014. Reviewed by Kiki Lindell I saw this production with a group of my students who recently studied and played Romeo and Juliet themselves (in English, at Lund University). Beforehand, they laughingly acknowledged that they fully intended to remain unimpressed, and prefer […]
“Sceny miłosne z dramatów Szekspira” – Love Scenes from Shakespeare’s Plays (based on Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth) dir. Ewelina Ciszewska, Teatr Sztuk, Wrocław performed by Ewelina Ciszewska and Krzysztof Roszko videos – Robert Baliński music – Marcin Krzyżanowski Gdańsk Shakespeare Theatre, Summer with Shakespeare cycle, 29 July 2014 Reviewed by Magdalena Cieślak Shakespeare without words […]
Review by Markus Marti Selam Habibi, as one might not immediately recognize, is the ‘German’ title of one of the most popular plays by Shakespeare. It is, according to the production’s subtitle Die ganz vorzügliche und höchst beklagenswerte Geschichte von Romeo und Julia (The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet), and it gets performed […]
Romeo and Juliet Sydney Theatre Company, Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House, 1 November 2013. Review by Penny Gay. Kip Williams, one of the new generation of exploratory young theatre directors who are making waves in Sydney and Melbourne, was offered the chance to do his first Shakespeare play by the Sydney Theatre Company’s […]
Romeo and Juliet, The Aboriginal Centre for the Performance Arts (ACPA), Brisbane, Australia, 9-11 May 2013, as part of the Anywhere Theatre Festival. The first order of business was to find the place. Kangaroo Point. Our two weeks in Australia were enough to teach us that we wouldn’t, alas, be greeted by […]
Review of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet (directed by Rupert Goold for the Royal Shakespeare Company) at the Roundhouse, London, 4 December 2010 Originally published in Shakespeare, 7:2 (2011), 208-21. By B. J. Sokol, Goldsmiths, University of London. To throw the biggest bouquet first, Mariah Gale’s performance of Juliet was among the best I have seen. All of Gale’s […]
ROMEO AND JULIET Vera Komissarzhevskaya Theatre, St Petersburg, Russia National Theatre Bitola, Macedonia Director Dejan Projkovski Review by Randall Martin This was a bilingual Macedonian and Russian production of Romeo and Juliet performed by the Vera Komissarzhevskaya Theatre, St Petersburg and the National Theatre Bitola. The 850-seat theatre – the largest of the National Theatre’s […]
Bitola, Macedonia, 19-25 July 2013 The Bitola Shakespeare Festival is extending the bold intercultural experiment of last year’s Globe-to-Globe Festival in London. As part of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad, Globe-to-Globe launched a planetary Shakespeare project by inviting 37 companies from around the world to perform the playwright’s works in their home languages. The Bitola […]
