By Kashmira Gander for The Independent, 17 December 2014 A High Court judge who was attempting to decide the settlement figure in a divorce case admitted he turned to the works of William Shakespeare for help. As Mr Justice Mostyn considered the amount a pilates instructor needed following her divorce from a wealthy banker, he considered a passage in Act […]
Philip Brandes, LA Times June 26, 2014 Equality between the sexes isn’t the same thing as equivalency, and the gender-scrambled “Lear” at Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum faces more than just grammatical challenges transposing its source into an aging Queen’s foolish attempt to offload royal responsibilities onto disloyal sons. Given that this take on the original’s rigidly patriarchal universe is fundamentally […]
Daniel Hannan, The Telegraph May 16, 2014 When I was thirteen, I watched the 1983 Granada TV production of King Lear, with Lawrence Olivier in the title role. It’s sometimes said that by the time you’re old enough to play Lear you’re too old to play him, and Olivier proved the adage both ways. He had acted the part […]
Jeff Fickes, Seattle Shakespeare May 9, 2014 Marta Zekan from KING FM’s Arts Channel spoke with director Sheila Daniels about her experience bringing our production of Shakespeare’s “King Lear” to the stage. What is it about this particular play that hits us on such a personal level? Why do we never tire of analyzing and dissecting it? Sheila shares her thoughts […]
Christopher Rawson, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette March 30, 2014 LONDON — Scratch the bio of the British actors omnipresent on TV and film and you usually find deep experience in Shakespeare. Whatever the Bard may be in the United States (The New York Times recently commented on his frequent appearances in New York this past year), he’s a regular presence on […]
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