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 …
End of Year review
December 22, 2010
It’s been a relatively quiet year on the Shakespeare front, though still enough to justify a quick round-up of the year’s high- and low-lights. There have been a few too many routine productions this year for my liking. Specifically, the National Theatre’s Hamlet and the Bridge Project As You Like It typified the safe, conservative …
Too Many Danes
December 8, 2010
How many Hamlets can we sit through? In many ways, we’re still in the shadow of the RSC and Donmar "celebrity" productions, more recently joined by the National’s major stab. It’s one of the big institutional shows, and it’s had a good run round the main theatres over the last year and a bit. But …
For the Christmas wishlist
November 26, 2010
Courtesy of the National Theatre bookshop. You too can pretend you’re part of Team Hamlet at The Mousetrap: Hamlet ‘Villain’ T-shirt £15.00
RSC 50th anniversary season
November 23, 2010
Writing about web page http://www.rsc.org.uk/about-us/press/3481.aspx Plenty to be excited about in the announcement of the new RSC season, which marks both the first new productions to play in the redeveloped RST and the fiftieth anniversary of the modern RSC. Macbeth directed by Michael Boyd: I’m genuinely excited to see what Boyd – with his vivid …
Kupenga Kwa Hamlet (Two Gents Productions) @ The Oval House, London
November 20, 2010
Writing about web page http://www.twogentsproductions.com/wordpress/shows/kupenga-kwa-hamlet Kupenga Kwa Hamlet (The Madness of Hamlet) began with Queen Gertred singing Hatina Musha, a traditional Zimbabwean funeral song. It ended with two jolly gravediggers suddenly collapsing, dead. Yet as bleak as this may sound, Two Gents Productions’ take on Hamlet found a warmth and vivacity in its relationship with …
Macbeth (Song of the Goat Theatre/ Teatr Piesn Kozla) @ The Barbican Pit
November 19, 2010
Writing about web page http://macbeth-thepoint.co.uk/ Last night’s production was informed, for this reviewer, by mimetic associations and intertextuality that bordered, at times, on déjà vu. It was the second Polish take on Macbeth I’ve seen in the last couple of years. It was also the second Macbeth I’ve seen this year at the Barbican, both …
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