Hamlet (directed by Lars Romann Engel for the 2017 Shakespeare Festival at Hamlet’s Castle, Kronborg Castle, Elsinore, Denmark. Seen: 3 August, 2017. https://hamletscenen.dk/en/platforms/the-shakespeare-festival/hamlet-2017-uk/ The review also makes brief reference to Ophelia – Noh (idea and script: Ujin Sakurama), performed by the Tokyo-based Koh Lo Sha Noh company at the 2017 Shakespeare Festival at Hamlet’s Castle, […]
The Merry Wives of Windsor, directed by Paweł Aigner for The Gdańsk Shakespeare Theatre at The Gdańsk Shakespeare Theatre, Gdańsk, Poland. 2015 Reviewed by Urszula Kizelbach The Merry Wives of Windsor (2015) – Shakespeare reloaded in the Gdańsk Shakespeare Theatre During the 19th Shakespeare Festival in Gdańsk the audience knew the Polish director Paweł Aigner prepared […]
Inside Hamlet, Staged by Odyssé, a participatory agency with experience in transmedia, digital storytelling, role playing, larp and co-creative participatory events. Kronborg Castle, Elsinore, Denmark, 6 March, 2015. www.insidehamlet.com “The Actors Are Come Hither”: Hamlet as LARP Reviewed by Kiki Lindell ‘Inside Hamlet it set in an alternate reality where the French revolution never […]
Hamlets; directed by Daniel Tyler for The Young REP at the Birmingham Library, Birmingham, UK. 21 March 2015, [the only] matinee. Reviewed by Thea Buckley and Sara Marie Westh Hamlet and Hamlet is the singular traditional pinnacle of theatrical achievement, the measuring stick held up to the actor’s self and the world. But with great […]
Directed by Aileen Gonslaves, 12 July 2015 Reviewed by Evelyn O’Malley The stranded fishing boats in Luke Jerram’s art installation Withdrawn provoke questions: how did they get there? What circumstances have left them washed up, abandoned, wrecked in the National Trust’s Leigh Woods and far from the sea; and what might the wrecks remember, what […]
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 […]
Reviewed by Alun Thomas Venice, the suppurating city, bursts into new and malignant life in London’s docklands in this astonishing play. Venice Preserv’d, a site-specific production staged in the empty shells of half-built luxury flats in Greenwich, immerses the audience in the decadent world of La Serenissima, conjuring up the City of Masks in all […]
