Play On directed by Robert Hollingworth and Omar Shahryar, Jack Lyons Concert Hall, University of York, UK, 1 November 2017 Review by Sarah Olive, University of York The undergraduate students of York’s music department had only six weeks to work with their directors – Robert Hollingworth and Omar Shahryar – devising and developing their practical […]
Twelfth Night, Watermill, dir. Paul Hart, York Theatre Royal. 19 May 2017. Reviewed by Sarah Olive This production was one of two offerings from Watermill Theatre at the second York International Shakespeare Festival (Romeo and Juliet was the other). Both traded heavily on the incorporation of live music into the productions: Romeo and Juliet with […]
‘Know us by these colours’: Oregon Shakespeare Festival 2016 By Sheila T. Cavanagh, Emory University Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) in Ashland, Oregon sparked considerable controversy last year when they announced their “Play On!” initiative, whereby current playwrights and dramaturgs are being commissioned to “translate” the plays attributed to Shakespeare into twenty first century English. […]
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 […]
Twelfth Night, directed by Paata Tsikurishvili for Synetic Theater at the Synetic Theater, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, 26 January 2014. Reviewed by Katherine L. Bradshaw A stunning interpretation of Twelfth Night sparkled and swirled spectacularly at the Synetic Theater in Arlington, Virginia. As the 10th installment of Synetic’s award-winning “Silent Shakespeare” series, this show combined […]
Twelfth Night. Directed by Ben McLemore and performed by The City Theatre, Austin, Texas. 31 May, 2014. Review by Michael Saenger (Southwestern University) Twelfth Night is often viewed as the greatest of Shakespeare’s comedies; his early ones show so much optimism that they win less respect, and his later efforts become so dark that it […]
Directed by Wayne Jordan. 30th April 2014. Reviewed by Emer McHugh The Abbey Theatre’s production of Twelfth Night acts as a deliberate intervention into a very important conversation. In January 2014, Rory O’Neill, otherwise known as the drag artist and ‘gender discombobulist’ Panti Bliss, remarked on national television that ‘[t]he only place that… it’s okay […]
Sport for Jove. York Theatre, Seymour Centre, Sydney. Director Damien Ryan. 9 April 2014. Reviewed by Penny Gay Sport for Jove is a repertory company, devoted mainly to energetic and innovative Shakespeare productions, founded in 2009 by actors Damien Ryan and Terry Karabelas. The company have had great success from the get-go, generally playing in neglected out-of-Sydney areas, […]
Review by Peter Kirwan Originally published on The Bardathon, 6 April 2014 There was an awful moment in the closing night of the new Liverpool Everyman’s inaugural production of Twelfth Night, as Malvolio’s yellow stockings emerged, feet uppermost, through a trapdoor for an inverted prison sequence. The mechanism lifting the actor was misdirected, meaning that his […]
Review by Andrew Cowie In the 1990s a group of actors and musicians from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama got together to see how they might make work together. In 2006 their theatre company, Filter, was successful enough to be commissioned by the RSC to stage a production of Twelfth Night for the […]
