By Robert Viagas for Playbill, 15 October 2015 Bill Rauch, the artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, took to the pages of American Theatre magazine to explain and defend his plans to have contemporary playwrights “translate” all 39 of William Shakespeare‘s plays into modern English. The massive project aims to make Shakespeare’s works more understandable for modern audiences, with all 39 […]
BBC, 6 October 2015 David Tennant is to reprise his award-winning Shakespearean role as Richard II at London’s Barbican theatre in January 2016. His performance will form part of a Cycle of Kings season at London’s Barbican theatre in 2016. Tennant first took on the part to much acclaim in 2013 for the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC). He stood out […]
By Matt Trueman for The Guardian, 28 September 2015 Britain does Shakespeare brilliantly, but it mostly does Shakespeare a certain way. So much of our Shakespeare looks and sounds the same, with classical actors and perfect verse-speaking. House styles may differ but the starting point is the same: close textual analysis and a predetermined reading. That’s not to knock that approach. […]
Image from The Wall Street Journal‘s ‘A Facelift for Shakespeare’ A Facelift for Shakespeare By John McWhorter for The Wall Street Journal, 25 September 2015 The Oregon Shakespeare Festival will announce next week that it has commissioned translations of all 39 of the Bard’s plays into modern English, with the idea of having them ready to perform in three years. Yes, translations—because […]
From NPR, 20 September 2015 Actress Bonnie Milligan should be belting out songs in a production of Head Over Heels at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland. But belting and smoke don’t mix — and that’s causing problems this year at one of the country’s oldest and most respected theater festivals. Wildfires have been raging across the Pacific Northwest. In Washington State they’ve consumed […]
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