By Don Aucoin for The Boston Globe, 27 June 2015 By the time of Shakespeare’s “Henry V,’’ Prince Harry, the dissolute charmer of the “Henry IV’’ plays, has become King Henry, an untested ruler shouldering a weighty role but still trying to find his way. Something of the same seems to be true of Ryan Winkles, who plays the young monarch in […]
By Lyn Gardner for The Guardian, 21 June 2015 There is a moment during the final part of Ivo van Hove’s conflation of Shakespeare’s Henry V, Henry VI and Richard III when Hans Kesting’s scheming Richard tries on the crown for size. He capers around like a gruesome child who has been at the dressing-up box and who does not comprehend the […]
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 […]
By Lyn Gardner for The Guardian‘s Theatre blog, 17 March 2015 How should we introduce children to Shakespeare? I ask because it’s Shakespeare Week in primary schools, a nationwide initiative that aims to introduce the under-11s to the plays of the man who is inevitably dubbed in the online trailers as “the world’s greatest writer”. That always makes me think of Robert Graves’ pithy […]
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