Reviews

Jeanette Winterson’s Complicated Shakespeare

Jeanette Winterson’s Complicated Shakespeare

By Malcolm Harris for The New Republic, 5 January 2016 To call Jeanette Winterson a novelist would be to sell her short. The novel is a limited thing, a technology like the bicycle pump or the gas stove. Stories are much older, a species constant, like cooking and language. Novels are fiction, while stories can be true or false or neither. “Trust […]

January 9, 2016 · 0 comments · Reviews
“Shakespeare in Print and Performance” at the Ransom Center (Austin, Texas)

“Shakespeare in Print and Performance” at the Ransom Center (Austin, Texas)

By Robert Faires for The Austin Chronicle, 1 January 2016 With the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death mere months away (April 23, 2016 – mark those calendars!), arts institutions worldwide are devoting even more attention to the dramatist now than usual. The University of Texas’ Harry Ransom Center is among them, using the occasion to spotlight some of the lesser […]

January 9, 2016 · 0 comments · Reviews

The world’s the stage: Shakespeare’s rise to global pre-eminence

By Jerry Brotton for the Financial Times, 30 December 2015 Worlds Elsewhere: Journeys Around Shakespeare’s Globe, by Andrew Dickson, Bodley Head, RRP£20, 512 pages Shakespeare’s First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic Book, by Emma Smith, OUP, RRP£19.99, 328 pages The Shakespeare Circle: An Alternative Biography, edited by Paul Edmondson and Stanley Wells, Cambridge University Press, RRP£18.99/RRP$29.99, 386 pages 1606: William Shakespeare and […]

January 9, 2016 · 0 comments · Reviews
Review: David Fox’s subtle Lear can’t hold up production (Toronto)

Review: David Fox’s subtle Lear can’t hold up production (Toronto)

By Carly Maga for The Star (Toronto), 28 November 2015 Written by William Shakespeare. Directed by Rod Carley. Until December 6 at Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson Avenue. KingLearProject.com or 416-504-7529. King Lear is such a landmark play, it can sell out the country’s largest theatres and attract actors at the peak of storied careers — exactly like it did with […]

December 5, 2015 · 0 comments · Reviews
Review: Bare Theatre’s imperfect but promising all-female production of Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus

Review: Bare Theatre’s imperfect but promising all-female production of Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus

By Byron Woods for Indy Week, 11 November 2015 The questions are rarely pursued in regional theater and our culture at large: What are the limits to a woman’s anger? In what ways might a women-only culture function—or not function? And how would a women’s theater company explore these and similar questions on stage? Bare Theatre’s all-female production of Titus […]

November 15, 2015 · 0 comments · Reviews