Richard III by The Baron’s Men, directed by Joe Falocco, at Garriott’s Curtain Theatre, Austin, Texas. April 7, 2016. Reviewed by Michael Saenger, Southwestern University Richard III is a savage, and Richard III is guilty pleasure. Theoretically, it’s a play that supports the Tudor myth; that is, a play that portrays a dastardly bad […]
King Lear by The Nashville Shakespeare Festival, at Belmont University’s Troutt Theatre, Nashville, TN Reviewed by Amy W. Grubbs For over twenty-seven years the Nashville Shakespeare Festival has been bringing professional productions of Shakespeare to middle Tennessee. They offer a free production at the end of summer in Nashville’s beautiful Centennial Park and a […]
Antony and Cleopatra at the Public Originally published on stevementz.com on 3 March 2014. Review by Steve Mentz About half a minute into the performance, when Jonathan Cake’s impossibly tall and shirtless Antony strained heavenward while commanding Rome to melt into the Tiber, my eleven-year old daughter Olivia, seeing the play for the first time, […]
Heavens to betsy! No sooner do I announce that I’m going to write a series of posts on Shakespeare’s neglected plays, starting with the Henry VI trilogy, than these three plays get more attention than they have in decades. First, the Balkan productions at the World Shakespeare Festival were hits, sometimes revelatory (click for reviews […]
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Can you guess who said the following about Henry VI Part One? ‘All critics, all readers, will probably agree or have agreed that it is one of the least poetical and also one of the dullest of all the plays in the Folio. It is redeemed by few passages of merit—its verse is unmusical, its […]
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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. A Soldier in Every Son – ‘Chaos Comes to Establish a New Order’ By Leticia Garcia, University of California at Irvine The cross-cultural collaborations forming part of the Globe to […]
I recently had the pleasure of working as an advisor for a production of Henry VI Part Three by the Lit Moon Theatre Company, directed by John Blondell, in Santa Barbara, California. This production partly represented a run-up for Blondell with his home company in preparation for the production he will direct with the Bitola […]
