By A. H. Goldstein for The Daily Camera, 1 Nov. 2015 There’s so much more to William Shakespeare than “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” “Romeo and Juliet” and “Hamlet.” For all his dramatic range and poetic insight, even the greatest playwright of the Western world has his greatest hits. From Shakespeare’s total catalog of 38 plays, certain titles come up again and […]
By Anita Singh for The Telegraph, 6 October 2015 The Barbican is to stage a Shakespeare season next year to mark the 400th anniversary of the Bard’s death. New productions include King Lear set in the Australian outback and a radical adaptation melding Henry V, Henry VI and Richard III into one modern-day play, Kings of War. But the quirkiest offering is Table […]
By Robert Gore-Langton for The Spectator, 5 September 2015 Shakespeare’s ‘Wars of the Roses’ will have no ethnic minority actors in the cast when the shows (two Henry VI plays and Richard III) open at the Rose Theatre, Kingston upon Thames, later this month. A sprinkling of so-called BME (black and minority ethnic) actors in Shakespeare has been the norm for ages now. So […]
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 […]
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