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Reviews: Measure for Measure at the Young Vic, London

Reviews: Measure for Measure at the Young Vic, London

Measured for pleasure: Shakespeare play given almost farcical whirl By Georgina Brown for The Daily Mail, 17 October 2015 Cut to 115 breathless, trippy minutes, you might suppose that director Joe Hill-Gibbins’s revival of one of Shakespeare’s trickiest plays is a somewhat scant measure. Admittedly, it doesn’t probe the play’s endlessly discussed ‘dark corners’, preferring instead to accelerate around them, so there’s […]

November 1, 2015 · 0 comments · Reviews
Reviews: Measure for Measure at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre (London)

Reviews: Measure for Measure at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre (London)

<i>Measure For Measure</i>, Shakespeare’s Globe, review: ‘sends unseasonal shivers down the spine’ by Dominic Cavendish for the Telegraph, 2 July 2015 High drama at the Globe on the hottest day of the year. Spectator flesh almost sizzles during the Measure for Measure matinee. Dazed-looking groundlings are rescued by vigilant volunteers; disoriented pigeons flap about madly; near me a parched woman faints […]

July 12, 2015 · 0 comments · Reviews
Arts groups band together for “Wherefore: Shakespeare in Raleigh” festival

Arts groups band together for “Wherefore: Shakespeare in Raleigh” festival

By Sarah Barr for News & Observer (North Carolina), 2 February 2015 In Shakespeare’s tale of star-crossed lovers, Juliet asks the night, “Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?” Juliet’s question is often misunderstood to mean she is searching for Romeo rather than cursing the fact that her love is from an enemy family. Playing off that common misinterpretation, organizers of […]

February 3, 2015 · 0 comments · Theaters
Mark Rylance, the greatest actor of his generation, does Hollywood. At last…

Mark Rylance, the greatest actor of his generation, does Hollywood. At last…

By Ed Caesar for GQ, 20 January 2015 From Shakespeare to Steven Spielberg, the actor his peers agree is the greatest of his generation is breaking character and stepping off the stage to lend his gifts to two Hollywood blockbusters (and playing Thomas Cromwell in the BBC adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall). When GQ met theatre’s star turn we found a man powered by inner conflict […]

February 3, 2015 · 0 comments · Actors, Film, Popular Culture, Uncategorized
Two Views of Shakespeare

Two Views of Shakespeare

Seattle Pi, Posted on January 13, 2015 In Acting Shakespeare, by James DeVita, January 8-11 at ACT’s Central Heating Lab Measure for Measure, Seattle Shakespeare Company, through February 1, Seattle Center By Alice Kaderlan Seeing Seattle Shakespeare Company’s “Measure for Measure” back to back with James DeVita’s one-man show “In Acting Shakespeare” was a revelation. DeVita has dedicated his acting life to […]

January 19, 2015 · 0 comments · Reviews