Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare, directed by Gregory Doran, RSC, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, Thursday 18 October and Wednesday 14 November 2018. Reviewed by Peter Malin All quotations from the play are from the 1987 New Penguin edition, ed. by R. A. Foakes Academic theatre reviewing should sometimes, I think, consist of more […]
Pericles, Yohangza, dir. Yang Jung-ung, TJ Towol theatre, Seoul Arts Centre, Korea. 23 November 2016, 3pm matinee. Reviewed by Sarah Olive I recently attended the Asian Shakespeare Association conference in Dehli, where the disoriented spectator was having a field day: the concept from theatre criticism, that is, rather than a person (though […]
Troilus and Cressida at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre, Boulder CO., August 4 2016 Reviewed by Harriet Archer Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida is a difficult work, sulky and intractable like so many of its characters. It is not a tragedy, or a comedy, or a history, or a romance. It is not really about its eponymous lovers, who […]
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. Directed by Elizabeth LeCompte for the Wooster Group (New York, USA) and Mark Ravenhill for the RSC (Stratford-on-Avon, UK) at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-on-Avon and the Riverside Studios, London. By Paul […]
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. Forests, dir. Calixto Bieito, with dramaturgy from Marc Rosich, with the Birmingham Rep, Barcelona Internacional Teatre, and the RSC, 31 August 2012 at the Old Rep Theatre, Birmingham By Kate McLuskie, Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham On […]
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. Plays as Music at Globe to Globe By Amy Kenny, University of Sussex When asked how his company rehearsed for their Globe to Globe production of Twelfth Night, Atul Kumar, […]
‘The isle is full of noises….’ Well, it certainly will be as the Olympic Games open with a ceremony that takes as its keynote these words from The Tempest. One of the noises will be the resonant sound of the great bell, the biggest in Europe – twice the size of Big Ben – which […]
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. In Praise of Translation: On Watching Shakespeare in a Foreign Language By Margherita Laera, Queen Mary University of London You might not agree with me but, in recent years, I […]
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 VI Part Two, National Theatre of Albania, dir. Adonis Filipi, 13 May 2012 at The Globe, London By Pete Orford And on to the next part of the Balkan trilogy. While these […]
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. Julius Caesar, I Termini Company, dir. Andrea Barraco, 1 May 2012, at The Globe, London By Sonia Massai, King’s College London Andrea Baracco and Vincenzo Manna’s adaptation of Julius […]
