The Belfast Telegraph, 16 March 2016 The Royal Shakespeare Company’s artistic director said underfunding access to Shakespeare was “denying children their birthright”. Gregory Doran, who was appointed in 2012, described the impact of the RSC’s education programme and committed to prioritising it further as he delivered the annual Richard Dimbleby Lecture in the Bard’s 400th anniversary year. He said: “In […]
Jed Ryan for Huffington Post, 16 March 2016 At the opening night of Letter of Marque Theater Company’s Double Falsehood at The Irondale Center in Brooklyn, one of the creative minds behind the show was overheard telling an attendee, “This show isn’t like Hamlet or Romeo and Juliet, where the audience at least knows the story. Most people don’t know anything about this play! It’s […]
By Gabrielle George for the Prague Post, 20 March 2016 Play will be done as a mostly one-man show with puppets As part of Prague Shakespeare Company’s effort to touch on every play by the Bard in the 400th anniversary of his death, they will present Richard II directed by and starring Gregory Gudgeon from March 31 to April 2 at […]
By Katherine Hobbs for CBC News, 20 March 2016 Shakespeare’s comedy, As You Like It, will be getting a Newfoundland makeover this summer at the Stratford Festival in Ontario. The play’s director, Jillian Keiley, is from St. John’s and has set the production in Newfoundland, featuring traditional music played by a live band. For an added authentic feel, a number of people from the province — including actor Petrina Bromley and musician Bob Hallett — have been hired to take […]
The Globe’s Emma Rice: ‘If anybody bended gender it was Shakespeare’ By Mark Brown for The Guardian, 5 January 2016 The fact that just 16% of Shakespeare’s characters are women – and that most of the memorable lines are spoken by men – will not stop Emma Rice’s mission to get a gender-balanced stage at Shakespeare’s Globe. “There is no reason why Gloucester can’t […]
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