By Martin Chilton for the Telegraph, 30 December 2015 William Shakespeare, once banned and denounced under Chairman Mao’s Cultural Revolution, will gain a new Chinese audience in 2016 when the Royal Shakespeare Company embarks on its first major tour of China. Shakespeare’s works were banned in China from 1964 to 1977 and the playwright was denounced as “revisionist, feudalist and capitalist” and […]
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. […]
By Catherine Reese Newton for The Salt Lake Tribune, published 5 September 2015, updated 8 September 2015 The Utah Shakespeare Festival bade farewell Saturday night to the Adams Memorial Shakespearean Theatre, its home for 44 years. In a simple, elegant ceremony repeated on the final three nights of the summer season, festival actors stood on the Adams stage with electric candles […]
By Dick Lindsay for The Berkshire Eagle, 27 August 2015 Twelve Berkshire County Vietnam War veterans learned this week they have plenty in common with William Shakespeare. The Bard’s works often feature war veterans and the struggles they endured returning from the battlefields. On Wednesday evening, several of them took turns reading a militaristic scene from “Othello.” Later, they alternated lines […]
By Peter Crawley for The Irish Times, 9 May 2015 It gets everywhere, this soft earth covering the floor of the stage. Throughout rehearsals it has been kicked across the Mick Lally Theatre’s small auditorium in little clumps, crept under fingernails in stubborn crescents and burrowed “into crevices that I won’t mention”, according to one of the cast, who shall remain […]
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