Times of Change at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 2019 By Sheila T. Cavanagh, Emory University 2019 marked a transition in leadership at Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) from Bill Rauch to Nataki Garrett. This final season of Rauch’s tenure as Artistic Director presented a host of remarkable productions, although the strongest plays suggest that OSF might currently be […]
Kings of War; directed by Ivo van Hove for Toneelgroep Amsterdam at Museumsquartier, Vienna, Austria. Seen on 5th June 2015 Reviewed by Ludwig Schnauder Ivo van Hove first introduced himself and the Toneelgroep Amsterdam in Vienna in 2008 with his superb Romeinse Tragedies (Roman Tragedies), an adaptation of Coriolanus, Julius Caesar and Anthony and Cleopatra. […]
Miranda; directed by Oskaras Koršunovas for OKT/Vilnius City Theatre in Vilnius, Lithuania, 17 July 2011. Reviewed by Paweł Schreiber The daughter The title of Oskaras Koršunovas’s performance is, significantly, not The Tempest, but Miranda. In Shakespeare’s play she is one of the most straightforward characters, a naive young girl always subordinated to a man with […]
The Tempest; directed by Maja Kleczewska for Teatr Polski in Bydgoszcz, Poland, 4 February 2012. Reviewed by Paweł Schreiber The despot’s home In Maja Kleczewska’s staging of The Tempest, there is no island. It is substituted with a monstrously large, dilapidated room, filled with the detritus of years of family life – a random assortment […]