<i>Measure For Measure</i>, Shakespeare’s Globe, review: ‘sends unseasonal shivers down the spine’ by Dominic Cavendish for the Telegraph, 2 July 2015 High drama at the Globe on the hottest day of the year. Spectator flesh almost sizzles during the Measure for Measure matinee. Dazed-looking groundlings are rescued by vigilant volunteers; disoriented pigeons flap about madly; near me a parched woman faints […]
By Don Aucoin for The Boston Globe, 27 June 2015 By the time of Shakespeare’s “Henry V,’’ Prince Harry, the dissolute charmer of the “Henry IV’’ plays, has become King Henry, an untested ruler shouldering a weighty role but still trying to find his way. Something of the same seems to be true of Ryan Winkles, who plays the young monarch in […]
By Lyn Gardner for The Guardian, 21 June 2015 There is a moment during the final part of Ivo van Hove’s conflation of Shakespeare’s Henry V, Henry VI and Richard III when Hans Kesting’s scheming Richard tries on the crown for size. He capers around like a gruesome child who has been at the dressing-up box and who does not comprehend the […]
By Melissa Bilecky for NJ.com, 9 June 2015 It may not be something we see often, but back in Shakespeare’s day, it was just another performance. For its 24th Shakespeare in the Park series, the Hudson Shakespeare Company will perform a cross-gendered version of “Love’s Labours Lost” — meaning men will play women’s roles and the women will play men’s. “Shakespeare’s […]
By Dominic Cavendish for The Telegraph, 7 June 2015 Next Monday – June 15th – sees the 800th anniversary of the signing of the charter subsequently known as Magna Carta, that hallowed document which so crucially set down an insistence on the need for individual freedom under law. Even though Shakespeare’s King John doesn’t show us his capitulation before his rebellious barons at […]
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