By Anita Singh for The Telegraph, 6 October 2015 The Barbican is to stage a Shakespeare season next year to mark the 400th anniversary of the Bard’s death. New productions include King Lear set in the Australian outback and a radical adaptation melding Henry V, Henry VI and Richard III into one modern-day play, Kings of War. But the quirkiest offering is Table […]
Where There’s A Will: Shakespeare Remixed In ‘The Gap Of Time’ By NPR Staff for NPR, 4 October 2015 We often feature musicians who make cover albums — their versions of songs made popular by others. Now comes a project where writers — some of the most acclaimed of our time — cover Shakepeare’s [sic] works, retelling the Bard in […]
By Andrew Dickson for The Guardian, 25 September 2015 It was a Monday morning in central Johannesburg – September, early spring. Inside the church hall, a cold light streamed on to the hard tile floor. The walls were raw plaster, stained and grey; bars were on the windows. In the centre of the small room were 12 or so plastic garden […]
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 […]
By Manuel Betancourt for Slant Magazine, 14 September 2015 In the middle of Brian Selznick’s newest picture book/novel hybrid, The Marvels, a young boy sneaks into a theater where he’s enraptured by a performance of William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale. The play, one of the Bard’s late romances, is perhaps best remembered for its late-act feat of magic wherein a statue of queen […]
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