Timon of Athens by Teatro Praga at the Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal, 2019 Reviewed by Francesca Rayner After years of non-performance in Portugal, Timon of Athens has been produced twice in the past few years; firstly in a production directed by Nuno Cardoso in 2018 and now in 2019 in a performance […]
MYRSKY [THE TEMPEST], with music by Jean Sibelius; directed by Ville Sandqvist, conducted by Tuomas Hannikainen at the Helsinki Music Center Concert Hall, Helsinki, Finland. 21 November 2015. Reviewed by Nely Keinänen The new concert hall in Helsinki was built for acoustics and not for ease of access: it’s approached from the top, with […]
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Aileen Gonslaves, 12 July 2015 Reviewed by Evelyn O’Malley The stranded fishing boats in Luke Jerram’s art installation Withdrawn provoke questions: how did they get there?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 […]
Reviewed by Kevin Riordan (Nanyang Technological University) At the moment it’s hard for a show in Singapore to not be somehow about Singapore. The nation’s fiftieth birthday—branded “SG50”—approaches this August and theater companies have joined, both wittingly and unwittingly, in this moment of national reflection: The Esplanade (the performing arts center whose exterior alludes to […]
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 […]
The Tempest, choreography Krzysztof Pastor, dramaturgy Willem Bruls, video art Shirin Neshat and Shoja Azari; Het Nationale Ballet, Amsterdam, 18 June 2014. Reviewed by Paul Franssen (Utrecht University) Pastor’s ballet took up various themes implicit in Shakespeare’s text, including the colonial one, but concentrated on Prospero’s struggle to give up Miranda. Accordingly, most characters were […]
The Tempest directed by Michael Mendelson for Portland Shakespeare Project at Artist Repertory Theatre, Portland, Oregon, USA. 24 July 2014. Reviewed by Lois Leveen In a post-Taymor/Mirren world, has it already become conventional to cast a woman as the lead in The Tempest? Or, more pertinent to Portland Shakespeare Project’s current production, can a director […]
De Storm (The Tempest), directed by Johan Doesburg, Het Nationale Toneel, Stadsschouwburg Utrecht, the Netherlands, 11 March 2014. Review by Paul Franssen (Utrecht University) Based on a modern translation by Frank Albers, this performance looked somewhat Brechtian in foregrounding its own theatricality. After the storm, some of the castaways (Antonio, Alonso, Gonzalo) remained on stage, […]
The Tempest at Örkény Theatre, Budapest, 2013 An Initiation to …. growing up? life? love? sex? teenagers?? Review by Gabriella Reuss … all the blessings of a glad father compass thee about! “People of my age don’t frequent the theatre, you know” my eldest daughter of fourteen explained as we were walking towards the theatre in […]
