Othello (National Theatre) @ NT Live
September 27, 2013
When digging out my ticket for the NT Live screening of Othello at Nottingham’s Broadway, I had to go into my archived email from four months ago. Booking for these screenings has become even more competitive, and as I tweeted afterwards I was disappointed to see so few young people in the audience. The extreme …
Dido, Queen of Carthage (Edward’s Boys) @ Christ Church Banqueting Hall, Oxford
September 22, 2013
If Gager’s Dido was accompanied by roast belly of pork and a house red, it seemed appropriate that Marlowe’s more playful take on the Dido story was served up alongside a posh version of cream and jelly. Perry Mills took on an intimidatingly huge room with a production that refused to shy away from the …
Dido (EDOX) @ Christ Church Banqueting Hall, Oxford
On June 12th 1583, William Gager’s Latin play Dido was performed in the main banqueting hall of Christ Church College in honour of the Polish ambassador. On September 21st 2013, the play was once more performed in the same venue, again with the Polish (deputy) ambassador in attendance, in a new English translation by Elizabeth Sandis. …
Twelfth Night (Filter) @ Curve, Leicester
September 16, 2013
This is a repost of a review written for Exeunt Magazine and is therefore not in usual Bardathon format. This production has been reviewed twice previously on The Bardathon, in its 2006 and 2008 iterations. Filter’s reinterpretation of Twelfth Night as rock gig is almost seven years old, dated from its first public outing in …
The Birth of Merlin (Read Not Dead) @ Shakespeare’s Globe
Of the fourteen plays included in C.F. Tucker Brooke’s Shakespeare Apocrypha in 1908 (to be supplanted next month by the RSC Collaborative Plays by Shakespeare and Others, in which I’ve had a hand), I’ve now seen six: The Two Noble Kinsmen (twice), Thomas More, Arden of Faversham (twice), A Yorkshire Tragedy (twice), Fair Em and …
All’s Well that Ends Well (RSC) @ The Royal Shakespeare Theatre
September 14, 2013
The last production in the RSC’s 2012 summer season, a rare main-stage outing for All’s Well that Ends Well, followed a recent series of successful London revivals of the play, including the Globe’s own, the visiting production by Arpana Theatre (which I’ve reviewed in the recently released CUP book Shakespeare Beyond English), and the National Theatre’s sublime …
Edward II (National) @ The Olivier, National Theatre
September 9, 2013
Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II is an obvious companion piece to Shakespeare’s Richard II, both dealing with the deposition of a king arguably more preoccupied with his friends and sycophants than with his kingdom, and the two have been performed together frequently (including most famously with Ian McKellen in the dual leads, making explicit the homosexual …
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