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 […]
By Judith Newmark for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 22 March 2015 This weekend, a factoid in the American arts world gets an update. Six theater companies in the United States have presented all the plays that William Shakespeare wrote. But with the production that just opened — “Blood Reigns: The War of the Roses Trilogy,” an original adaptation that combines “Henry […]
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