By Andrew Dickson for Scroll.in, 25 November 2015 I spent months trying to work out where truth ended in Shakespeare Wallah and fiction began. I dug out Geoffrey Kendal’s diaries, published in 1986, and read them cover to cover. They were enjoyably garrulous, retelling Kendal’s first glimpse of Mumbai with the Entertainments National Service Association, sent out to perform for British troops […]
By Laura Gartry for ABC News, 12 November 2015 After more than two years in the planning, Australia’s largest prison has put on several stage performances of Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream for visitors and fellow inmates. The 90-minute production is part of a new program at Acacia Prison in Perth that aims to develop life skills and reduce re-offending. Prison […]
By Kounteya Sinha for The Times of India, 1 November 2015 ilmmakers from India have a new challenge – interpret Shakespeare and his masterpieces into modern-day films. Britain has floated major plans to celebrate Shakespeare’s 400th death anniversary next year. Shakespeare India forms part of Shakespeare 400 on Screen, a major film and television programme led by Film London to mark 400 […]
By Ati Metwaly for Ahram Online, 31 Oct 2015 Between 23 and 25 October, the Cairo Symphony Chamber Orchestra joined by the Per Poc Puppet Theatre from Spain [and] performed <i>A Midsummer Night’s Dream</i> to the music by Felix Mendelssohn Ars longa, vita brevis or “Art is long, life is short”. Though Hippocrates was referring to the wonders of the “medical […]
By Raymond Zhou for The Telegraph, 21 October 2015 The first production of Shakespeare in was staged in 1902 when, in an effort to better understand English history and language, students at Shanghai St John College put on The Merchant of Venice in the original English. The story of Antonio, Portia and Shylock also produced the most popular Chinese-language dramatisations in the early […]
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