Helen Amass for TES Digital, 20 March 2016 Staging a mock trial could help young people relate to the playwright’s work, says the head of learning for Shakespeare’s Globe At the Royal Courts of Justice, a teenager stands accused under the Malicious Communications Act. The barristers whisper as they wait for the jury to return with a verdict. Despite looking […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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