By Victoria Ward for The Telegraph, 29 October 2015 Romeo and Juliet is to be used to teach children about sexual health as part of a series of worldwide events to mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. The British Council has joined forces with UK-based charity Voluntary Services Overseas (VSO) in a bid to use the Bard’s famous prose to inspire […]
A frustrating fusion of Shakespeare, Prokofiev from the BSO By Tim Smith for The Baltimore Sun, 17 October 2015 The Montagues and the Capulets aren’t the only opposing forces in the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s concert version of “Romeo and Juliet” this weekend. Shakespeare fights throughout with Prokofiev, whose music accompanies this frustrating event; both get gravely wounded. What must have seemed […]
By James Bovard for The Wall Street Journal, 13 July 2015 In Act 5 of “Love’s Labor Lost,” one character scoffs at pedants: “They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.” The latest Shakespeare fashion, at least in the Washington area, is to invite people to a feast of language and serve nothing but grunts, grimaces and grins—with a […]
By Christopher Hooton for the Independent, 12 June Shakespeare can be a little challenging as a teenager but that’s part of the joy of-NEVER MIND there’s a TL;DR version now! Penguin has launched an OMG Shakespeare series that reimagines his most famous plays in the digital age, with titles including Macbeth #killingit A Midsummer Night #NoFilter and YOLO Juliet. The plays, retold by Courtney Carbone and Brett Wright, […]
BBC News on 17 April 2015 Sir Kenneth Branagh is setting up a theatre company, with Dame Judi Dench, Rob Brydon and Lily James among stars set to perform in a season of plays. The Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company will take up residency at London’s Garrick Theatre for a year in October. The Cinderella director said he wanted “to have […]
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