By Daniel Pollack-Peizner for The New Yorker, 9 November 2015 In October, the publisher Hogarth rolled out the first in its ambitious new line of Shakespeare plays retold by contemporary novelists. The pairings are promising: Margaret Atwood, a master of ecological dystopias, will reimagine “The Tempest,” for instance, while Gillian Flynn, who knows her way around marriage and murder, will take on […]
By Matt Trueman for The Guardian, 28 September 2015 Britain does Shakespeare brilliantly, but it mostly does Shakespeare a certain way. So much of our Shakespeare looks and sounds the same, with classical actors and perfect verse-speaking. House styles may differ but the starting point is the same: close textual analysis and a predetermined reading. That’s not to knock that approach. […]
By Manning Harris for Atlanta INtown, 22 September 2015 The intrepid Shakespeare Tavern is probably the only theatre in town with the chutzpah to tackle Shakespeare’s “Cymbeline,” now running through Sept. 27. It’s a problematical play just about any way you slice it: Celebrated Shakespearean scholar (and lover of the Bard) Harold Bloom says it’s more a dramatic poem than a play; […]
By Manuel Betancourt for Slant Magazine, 14 September 2015 In the middle of Brian Selznick’s newest picture book/novel hybrid, The Marvels, a young boy sneaks into a theater where he’s enraptured by a performance of William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale. The play, one of the Bard’s late romances, is perhaps best remembered for its late-act feat of magic wherein a statue of queen […]
A Genuinely Magical Spirit Levitates Chicago Shakespeare’s “Tempest” By Hedy Weiss for the Chicago Sun-Times, 18 September 2015 The mischievous sleight-of-hand unfolds even before the audience has settled into darkness and the formal start of Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s altogether beguiling, ingeniously imagined production of “The Tempest.” It is set in motion by Ariel, the play’s ghostly pale “spirit.” Both muse and […]
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