By Alison Croggin for ABC, 17 October American novelist and Nobel laureate Toni Morrison’s revision of the Shakespeare classic Othello is a brave deconstruction of otherness; of American race relationships and the politics of gender. Sometimes it seems that the entire Western canon turns on the deaths of women. Again and again, women face two choices: they must be domesticated […]
By Andrew Dickson for The Guardian, 25 September 2015 It was a Monday morning in central Johannesburg – September, early spring. Inside the church hall, a cold light streamed on to the hard tile floor. The walls were raw plaster, stained and grey; bars were on the windows. In the centre of the small room were 12 or so plastic garden […]
by Brandy McDonnell Published: September 6, 2015 Bard to the bone: Englishman brings Shakespeare to Oklahoma with reborn acting career After growing up 20 miles from Stratford-upon-Avon, David Fletcher-Hall now is bringing Shakespeare to stages half a world away from The Bard’s ancestral home, and his own. “I think it’s the accent. I’m still waiting for Oklahoma City to recognize the natural talent […]
University of Tasmania article, 28 April 2015 Taking crucial scenes from five of Shakespeare’s most brutal plays and sewing them into one cohesive storyline, CROWNS focuses on the tragedy that is the human condition and its lust for power. Greed and ambition are the major themes of this piece, set in an abstracted industrial zone, with all the characters weaving a complex tale […]
By David Dunn for CNN, 22 April 2015 As a playwright whose work was once used to lift the spirits of trapped Chilean miners, the power of the spoken word certainly isn’t lost on Alex Broun. Now the man recognized as probably the world’s most prolific writer of 10-minute plays is looking to get his adopted home more acquainted with […]
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