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. Romeo and Juliet in Baghdad, Iraqi Theatre Company, dir. Monadhil Daood, 30 April 2012 at the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon By Susan Bennett, University of Calgary, and Christie […]
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. Othello: The Remix, Q Brothers and Chicago Shakespeare Theater, dir. GQ and JQ, 5 May 2012 at The Globe, London. By Erin Sullivan, Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham When […]
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 […]
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 Midsummer Night’s Dream, Yohangza Theatre Company, Dir. Jung Ung Yang, Globe Theatre, 1 May 2012 at The Globe, London By Adele Lee, University of Greenwich Contrary to most recent performances of A […]
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 Toroihi rāua ko Kāhiri (Troilus and Cressida), Ngākau Toa, dir. Rachel House and Jamus Webster, 23 April 2012 at The Globe, London By Catherine Silverstone, Queen Mary University of London […]
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. Twelfth Night, Company Theatre, dir. Atul Kumar, 28 April 2012 at The Globe, London. By Peter J. Smith, Nottingham Trent University I was on tenterhooks for Andrew’s idiotic self-diagnosis: ‘but 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. Richard III, National Theatre of China, dir. Wang Xiaoying, 29 April 2012 at The Globe, London. By Peter J. Smith, Nottingham Trent University Note: In the review that follows, 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. Pericles, National Theatre of Greece, dir. Giannis Houvardas, 27 April 2012 at The Globe, London. By Stephen Purcell, University of Warwick The Globe auditorium erupted with applause as a […]
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. The Merry Wives of Windsor, Bitter Pill and Theatre Company Kenya, Dir. Daniel Goldman and Sarah Norman, 25 April 2012 at The Globe, London By Sarah Olive, University of […]
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. By Alexa Alice Joubin, George Washington University Can Shakespeare’s plays give a “local habitation” to the “airy nothing” of globalization? Shakespeare is proclaimed, once again, the bearer of […]
