By Michael Coveney for What’s On Stage, 23 July 2015 There is an interpolated prologue to Simon Godwin‘s highly intelligent and fast-moving production at the Globe: a boy king – looking remarkably like Mark Lester in Oliver! – is presented on a golden throne and the arena fills with gold dust. When the dust settles, Charles Edwards is in situ and we’re off, […]
<i>Measure For Measure</i>, Shakespeare’s Globe, review: ‘sends unseasonal shivers down the spine’ by Dominic Cavendish for the Telegraph, 2 July 2015 High drama at the Globe on the hottest day of the year. Spectator flesh almost sizzles during the Measure for Measure matinee. Dazed-looking groundlings are rescued by vigilant volunteers; disoriented pigeons flap about madly; near me a parched woman faints […]
By Chris Wiegand for The Guardian, 1 May 2015 The job description demanded “visionary and charismatic leadership”, the ability to “command respect and loyalty”, the confidence to take risks and – oh yes – “a knowledge and love of the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries”. Four months after the role was advertised, Emma Rice has been named as the next artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe in London. […]
Paul Levy, The Washington Post June 5, 2014 HE MAY ONLY be 51 but Dominic Dromgoole has already run several of Britain’s hot-ticket theater companies. Artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe, Mr. Dromgoole recently launched a big new project, “Globe to Globe Hamlet,” taking the play to every country in the world. How did this project come about? It grew out of […]
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