Paul Simei-Barton, The New Zealand Herald March 3, 2014 Freewheeling Shakespearean rarity presented in quirky mix of time and place. This year’s Summer Shakespeare eschews the well-worn path of the familiar plays and plunges us into the exotic world of a seldom produced late work that is greatly admired by some Shakespearean scholars. Pericles presents an outlandish series of adventures with […]
Shari Miller, Daily Mail March 10, 2014 To tour or not to tour – that may well be the question the Globe Theatre will have to ponder after the company sparked a furious response from human rights groups by announcing it will stage a production of Hamlet in North Korea. The irony was not lost on critics, who were quick […]
Kathy Marks, The Guardian March 4, 2014 The Winter’s Tale – with its magical realism and mix of tragedy and comedy – is often ignored in favour of better known works, but this neglect provides all the more reason for its revival. Lords and nobles, implausible coincidences and a statue that springs to life – The Winter’s Tale conjures a […]
Nick Squires The Telegraph 25 Feb 2014 It is meant to bring good fortune for those who are unlucky in love, but a tradition of rubbing the right breast of a bronze statue of Juliet has left it looking decidedly the worse for wear. The caressing touch of tens of thousands of thwarted romantics has done such damage that […]
By Jane Arraf The Christian Science Monitor February 22, 2014 Syrian actor and play director Nawar Boulboul showed up a few weeks ago with a dream of bringing Shakespeare to Zaatari, the biggest Syrian refugee camp – and of saving at least a few of the children being dubbed Syria’s “lost generation.” Mr. Boulboul, a Homs native who left for […]
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