By Richard Garner for the Independent, 29 December 2015 Shakespeare isn’t best known for his links to Wales, despite basing one of his plays there, creating several Welsh characters and even bearing Celtic blood himself, thanks to his maternal grandmother. The Bard may now find renewed popularity in the principality, however, as one of his most loved scripts is to be […]
By Laura Gartry for ABC News, 12 November 2015 After more than two years in the planning, Australia’s largest prison has put on several stage performances of Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream for visitors and fellow inmates. The 90-minute production is part of a new program at Acacia Prison in Perth that aims to develop life skills and reduce re-offending. Prison […]
By Ati Metwaly for Ahram Online, 31 Oct 2015 Between 23 and 25 October, the Cairo Symphony Chamber Orchestra joined by the Per Poc Puppet Theatre from Spain [and] performed <i>A Midsummer Night’s Dream</i> to the music by Felix Mendelssohn Ars longa, vita brevis or “Art is long, life is short”. Though Hippocrates was referring to the wonders of the “medical […]
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 […]
By Rachel Beecher for DC Metro Theatre Arts, 16 September 2015 Kill Will at The Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre has combat, drama, more combat, comedy, and a little more combat. Written by Barter Theater Associate Artistic Director Derek Davidson and directed by Philadelphia local Kevin McGuire, this show is quick compilation of Shakespeare’s fight scenes from all genres, such as Macbeth, As You Like It, […]
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