Romeo och Julia (edited and directed by Dag Norgård; Romeo: Sven Wollter, Julia: Evabritt Strandberg; music: Ensemble Mare Balticum). Language: Swedish. Lunds Stadsteater, Lund, Sweden. Seen 27 September, 2016. Out of Joint (written/edited and directed by Omar Elfarouk and Johannes Löf for Lunds Studentteater). Language: English. Akademiska Föreningen, Lund, Sweden. Seen on 15 December, […]
Twelfth Night; directed by Andreas Forner Lindahl for Shakespeare på Gräsgården at the Bridgettine monastery, Vadstena. Date seen: 22 July, 2014. Reviewed by Kent Hägglund Before the early 1980s, it was very unusual to get to see more that five Swedish Shakespeare productions per year. However, in 1983, there were suddenly ten, and that has continued […]
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 […]
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, directed by Anna Bergmann for Malmö Stadsteater at Hipp, Malmö, Sweden. 15 April, 2014. Reviewed by Kiki Lindell In the 2014 Shakespeare Birthday Lecture in Stratford-upon-Avon, the director Michael Bogdanov spoke, among other things, about the delights and frustrations of directing in German theatres. Like Peter Brook, Bogdanov believes that we non-native […]
