The Globe’s Much Ado About Nothing: Sombreros, Tequila, and Exoticization By Mayra Cano, California State University-Fresno Matthew Dunster’s reimagination of Much Ado About Nothing, set in 1914 during the Mexican Revolution, employs a variety of stereotypes about Mexico and Mexicans, demonstrating a misunderstanding of this period in Mexican history. This alongside the production’s use of […]
Recreating Shakespeare: You are my destiny (Lo stupro di Lucrezia) 12th World Theatre Festival, Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb, 26 September 2014 Reviewed by Remedios Perni Universidad Isabel I / Universidad de Murcia, Spain CAST AND CREATIVE TEAM Cast: Joele Anastasi, Ugo Giacomazzi, Fabián Augusto Gómez Bohórquez, Julian Isenia, Lola Jiménez, Andrea Lanciotti, Angélica Liddell, […]
Las Alegres Casadas (Merry Wives of Windsor) at the Festival Internacional de Teatro Clásico de Almagro, Espacio Miguel Narros, 17 July 2015 Reviewed by Isabel Guerrero CAST AND CREATIVE TEAM Cast: Maite Redín, Patxi Perez, Adriana Olmedo, Natalia Díaz and Fernando Romo Director and adaptation: Andrés Lima Setting design: Beatriz San Juan Lighting design: Koldo Tainta […]
Hambret – Shakespeare in Almagro 2014, Festival Internacional de Teatro Clásico de Almagro, La Veleta, 18 July 2014 Reviewed by Isabel Guerrero Cast and Creative Team Actors: Ana Planes, Roser Vallvé, David Bocian, Julia Rabadan, Julieta Dentone, Angela F. Palacios, Karla Ontiveros, Camilo Zaffora, Mario González Aragón, Patrick Martino Director and adaptation: Jessica Walker Video: Esther Anrill […]
The Comedy of Errors / La comedia de las equivocaciones: A Bilingual Adaptation, edited by David Navarro and Joe Falocco, and directed by Joe Falocco. Reviewed by Michael Saenger, Southwestern University Language seems like one of the least interesting aspects of theater. Most of us are used to attending performances that use the predominant language of […]
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. Henry VIII, Rakatá/Fundación Siglo de Oro (Castilian Spanish), 29 May, 2012 at The Globe, London By Juan F. Cerdá, University of Murcia I presume the organizers of the festival […]
