Post Tagged with: "Hamlet"

From Stratford to Rio: Using Shakespeare to treat mental illness

From Stratford to Rio: Using Shakespeare to treat mental illness

By Ben Tavener for BBC News, 12 April 2015 Exploring feelings through playing different roles is recognised as helping people with mental health problems. And the theory has led one doctor to bring Shakespeare to Rio de Janeiro. “Ser ou nao ser, eis a questao!” – “To be, or not to be. That is the question!” bellows a rugged, masked […]

April 19, 2015 · 0 comments · Global
2016 Oregon Shakespeare Festival season announced

2016 Oregon Shakespeare Festival season announced

By Lee Juillerat for the Herald and News, 2 April 2015 The 2015 season is just a month underway, but there are already great expectations for the 2016 sea-son at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland. Five plays by Shakespeare, including the seldom produced “Timon of Athens” and “Richard II,” are part of the playbill announced recently by Bill Rauch, […]

April 7, 2015 · 0 comments · Theaters
Women Playing Hamlet review: Harrisburg, PA’s Gamut Theatre premiere is wickedly clever spoof

Women Playing Hamlet review: Harrisburg, PA’s Gamut Theatre premiere is wickedly clever spoof

By David N. Dunkle for PennLive.com, 14 March 2015 In “Women Playing Hamlet,” a present-day actor named Jessica is having an identity crisis, brought on by her casting as Hamlet in a new production of the 400-year-old Shakespearean tragedy at Gamut Classic Theatre. Is she up to it? Should she be — or is it better not to be — the […]

March 17, 2015 · 0 comments · Popular Culture, Reviews, Theaters
Zombies meet Shakespeare in DePauw University’s ‘Living Dead in Denmark’

Zombies meet Shakespeare in DePauw University’s ‘Living Dead in Denmark’

Published in Banner Graphic, 10 March 2015 DePauw University Theatre will continue its 2014-15 season with an invitation for audiences to visit a zombie-infested Shakespearean world in “Living Dead in Denmark.” The play, written by Qui Nguyen and directed by Andrew Hayes, professor of communication and theatre, opens at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 12 in Moore Theatre of DePauw’s Green Center […]

March 17, 2015 · 0 comments · Popular Culture, Theaters
Review: I Hate Hamlet: University Theater, Denver Post

Review: I Hate Hamlet: University Theater, Denver Post

Lisa Kennedy, The Denver Post June 26, 2014   In “I Hate Hamlet,” successful actor Andrew Rally arrives in New York from Los Angeles after the end of his TV series, “L.A. Medical Center.” His real estate agent, Felicia, as only a New York agent will, has secured him a fab abode nothing like what he asked for. The dark- paneled […]

June 28, 2014 · 0 comments · Reviews