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Shakespeare’s 74 death scenes in a single play more gory than Game of Thrones

Shakespeare’s 74 death scenes in a single play more gory than Game of Thrones

Alice Vincent for The Telegraph, 3 December 2015 There may have been five “droppers” – a theatrical term for fainting audience members – overcome by the fake bloodshed at Titus Andronicus at The Globe last year, but one new play is promising considerably more than the nine brutal on-stage deaths in Shakespeare’s first tragedy. The Complete Deaths will detail all of the Bard’s […]

December 5, 2015 · 0 comments · Theaters
Acacia prison inmates put on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Acacia prison inmates put on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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 […]

November 15, 2015 · 0 comments · Global
Review: Bare Theatre’s imperfect but promising all-female production of Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus

Review: Bare Theatre’s imperfect but promising all-female production of Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus

By Byron Woods for Indy Week, 11 November 2015 The questions are rarely pursued in regional theater and our culture at large: What are the limits to a woman’s anger? In what ways might a women-only culture function—or not function? And how would a women’s theater company explore these and similar questions on stage? Bare Theatre’s all-female production of Titus […]

November 15, 2015 · 0 comments · Reviews
Reviews: Donmar Warehouse’s all-female Henry IV

Reviews: Donmar Warehouse’s all-female Henry IV

Why Shakespeare Set in a Women’s Prison Makes Complete Sense By Patrick Monahan for Vanity Fair, 5 November 2015 A group of actresses playing prison inmates. An episode ofOrange Is the New Black? Chicago the musical’s “Cell Block Tango”? No, it’s Shakespeare’s Henry IV. Phyllida Lloyd directs a new production of Henry IV—the second in a trilogy of all-female Shakespeare set in jail—at the new St. […]

November 15, 2015 · 0 comments · Reviews
Review: ‘Henri IV Part I’: The Re-Gendered Henry IV Repertory at Brave Spirits Theatre

Review: ‘Henri IV Part I’: The Re-Gendered Henry IV Repertory at Brave Spirits Theatre

By by Katie Bogdan for DC Metro Theater Arts, on October 31, 2015 With the Women’s Voices Theater Festival in DC still going strong, Brave Spirits Theatre asks its audiences to consider the role women have in theatre beyond the reach of the festival. With the first majorly re-gendered production that the company has done, Henri IV provides its wonderful cast of women […]

November 15, 2015 · 0 comments · Reviews