Brilliant Benedict, the sweet prince of the stage: Triumphant Cumberbatch treads the boards in five-star production of Hamlet after fans queued for 36 hours to see his opening night Review by Jan Moir; extended article by Tom Payne for The Daily Mail and Sam Tonkin for MailOnline, 5 August 2015, updated 6 August 2015. Our accompanying photo comes from this article. First there […]
Cumberfans on Hamlet: ‘I can’t imagine what it will be like to see him’ Hannah Ellis-Petersen for The Guardian, 4 August 2015 Teri Peterson, 39, a receptionist, has lived in rural Wisconsin her whole life. With the nearest theatres in Chicago or Milawaukee over a two hours drive away, Shakespeare performances are not always easy to access. But in October, she […]
By James Bovard for The Wall Street Journal, 13 July 2015 In Act 5 of “Love’s Labor Lost,” one character scoffs at pedants: “They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.” The latest Shakespeare fashion, at least in the Washington area, is to invite people to a feast of language and serve nothing but grunts, grimaces and grins—with a […]
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. […]
University of Tasmania article, 28 April 2015 Taking crucial scenes from five of Shakespeare’s most brutal plays and sewing them into one cohesive storyline, CROWNS focuses on the tragedy that is the human condition and its lust for power. Greed and ambition are the major themes of this piece, set in an abstracted industrial zone, with all the characters weaving a complex tale […]
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