By A. H. Goldstein for The Daily Camera, 1 Nov. 2015 There’s so much more to William Shakespeare than “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” “Romeo and Juliet” and “Hamlet.” For all his dramatic range and poetic insight, even the greatest playwright of the Western world has his greatest hits. From Shakespeare’s total catalog of 38 plays, certain titles come up again and […]
By Simon Wilson for The Nottingham Post, 19 October 2015 Cycling Shakespeare fans The HandleBards, described by Sir Ian McKellen as “uproariously funny”, will ride into Nottingham on Tuesday, October 20 for a performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. It’ll take place at Activeace Arena in Tattershall Drive, The Park, from 7pm. The four-strong, all-male troupe have been cycling the length […]
David Oyelowo and Daniel Craig to star in <i>Othello</i> Staff writers for BBC, 19 October 2015 British stars David Oyelowo and Daniel Craig are to star together in an Off Broadway production of Shakespeare’s Othello next autumn. The James Bond actor will star as Iago in the play staged by the New York Theater Workshop (NYTW), with Selma actor Oyelowo […]
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 Charles Hutchinson for The Press (York), 15 October 2015 FROM a record 25 pitches to direct York Shakespeare Project’s first all-woman production, Maggie Smales won the battle. She will stage Henry V at the Upstage Centre Theatre, 41 Monkgate, from October 21 to 31, the period covering the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt. For YSP’s 28th show, […]
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