The Globe’s Emma Rice: ‘If anybody bended gender it was Shakespeare’ By Mark Brown for The Guardian, 5 January 2016 The fact that just 16% of Shakespeare’s characters are women – and that most of the memorable lines are spoken by men – will not stop Emma Rice’s mission to get a gender-balanced stage at Shakespeare’s Globe. “There is no reason why Gloucester can’t […]
By Michael Coveney for What’s On Stage, 23 July 2015 There is an interpolated prologue to Simon Godwin‘s highly intelligent and fast-moving production at the Globe: a boy king – looking remarkably like Mark Lester in Oliver! – is presented on a golden throne and the arena fills with gold dust. When the dust settles, Charles Edwards is in situ and we’re off, […]
By Nick Clark for the Independent, 9 July 2015 Mark Rylance, the actor, has criticised subsidised theatre companies including the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company for charging “way too much” for tickets. While the National has a long track record of offering discounted seats, the Wolf Hall star said it had a duty to cut prices further in return […]
<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 […]
By Dominic Cavendish for The Telegraph, 7 June 2015 Next Monday – June 15th – sees the 800th anniversary of the signing of the charter subsequently known as Magna Carta, that hallowed document which so crucially set down an insistence on the need for individual freedom under law. Even though Shakespeare’s King John doesn’t show us his capitulation before his rebellious barons at […]
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