Gnomeo and Juliet (Rocket Productions) @ Showcase Cinema, Coventry
February 24, 2011
Writing about web page http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0377981/ Film versions of Shakespeare are required, one way or another, to confront the docu-real potentiality of the medium in the transition from stage to screen. While a very few choose to exploit the possibilities for historical drama and lush scenography, the heightened language and inevitable familiarity of subject matter more …
Richard II (SAATF) @ The Tobacco Factory
February 18, 2011
Even though Richard II stands alone as a wonderful, lyrical play, there’s something about a good production that leaves you wanting more, in the form of Henry IV. Certainly the play seems to aim at that. Some of the most exciting moments in Andrew Hilton’s new production, opening this year’s season at the Tobacco Factory, …
Richard III (Propeller) @ The Belgrade, Coventry
February 10, 2011
In stark contrast to last night’s interval concert, audience serenades and jovial banter, Propeller last night erected a stony wall between the audience and the stage. As Richard Clothier’s Richard delivered his "Was ever woman in this humour wooed?" speech, he limped about the stage and then paused. A woman in the front row was …
The Comedy of Errors (Propeller) @ The Belgrade Theatre, Coventry
A roar of dissent rose in the foyer of the Belgrade Theatre during the interval of last night’s Comedy of Errors, as the tannoy politely requested that audience members resume their seats for the second half. The roar came, however, not from reluctant audiences, but from the theatre company themselves. The men of Propeller had …
King Lear (Donmar/NT Live) @ Warwick Arts Centre Cinema
February 4, 2011
Writing about web page http://www.donmarwarehouse.com/pl114.html Poor Paul Jesson. As Gloucester in Michael Grandage’s award-winning production of King Lear, last night he delivered one of the most powerful renditions of the Dover cliffs scene that I’ve ever been privileged to see. Accompanied by Gwilym Lee as Edgar, he shuffled across the bare bleached boards of the …
Double Falsehod (MokitaGrit) @ The Union Theatre, Southwark
February 1, 2011
Writing about web page http://www.doublefalsehood.org/ Comparisons may be odious, but at the Union Theatre’s new production of Double Falsehood, they are positively unavoidable. In August, KDC performed what it called the "21st century premiere" of Theobald’s disputed play in the space. Five months later, the same theatre played host to another Double Falsehood by MokitaGrit …
Discords (After Shakespeare) (Fail Better) @ Warwick Arts Centre Studio
January 24, 2011
It’s the tenth anniversary of Fail Better Productions, a company who I’ve been working alongside on and off for the last few years. Specialising in Becket, devised work and revivals (witness the excellent Play Without a Title), they’ve more recently been working with a student ensemble at Warwick on a devised piece, which received its …
The Next Complete Works
January 20, 2011
Shakespeare’s Globe have just announced their exciting 2012 project -a new Complete Works of Shakespeare. This will see the Globe present 38 plays (don’t get me started on the absence of Edward III and Thomas More!) over six months, each one in a different language. The Bardathon was founded in the spirit of ‘event Shakespeare’, based on the …
Antonio’s revenge by Edward’s Boys
January 18, 2011
Antonio’s Revenge by John Marston (1599) 7.30pm Wednesday 9th March The Moser Theatre, Wadham College, Oxford Tickets from School Office: 01789-293351. Email: headspa@kes-stratford.org.uk 7.30pm Thursday 10th March Levi Fox Hall, King Edward VI School Tickets from School Office: 01789-293351. Email: headspa@kes-stratford.org.uk 7.30pm Saturday 12th March Levi Fox Hall, King Edward VI School Tickets from School …
Special Issue of Shakespeare Bulletin
January 14, 2011
Shakespeare Bulletin – Special Theatre Reviews Section – Spring 2012 We are soliciting reviews of the BEST and the WORST productions of Shakespeare and other early modern drama in the first decade of the twenty-first century. The theatre reviews section in the Spring 2012 issue of Shakespeare Bulletin will follow a somewhat unusual format. We …
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