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Review: Bare Theatre’s imperfect but promising all-female production of Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus

Review: Bare Theatre’s imperfect but promising all-female production of Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus

By Byron Woods for Indy Week, 11 November 2015 The questions are rarely pursued in regional theater and our culture at large: What are the limits to a woman’s anger? In what ways might a women-only culture function—or not function? And how would a women’s theater company explore these and similar questions on stage? Bare Theatre’s all-female production of Titus […]

November 15, 2015 · 0 comments · Reviews
From Globe to global: a Shakespeare voyage around the world

From Globe to global: a Shakespeare voyage around the world

By Andrew Dickson for The Guardian, 25 September 2015 It was a Monday morning in central Johannesburg – September, early spring. Inside the church hall, a cold light streamed on to the hard tile floor. The walls were raw plaster, stained and grey; bars were on the windows. In the centre of the small room were 12 or so plastic garden […]

October 1, 2015 · 0 comments · Global
Six scripts get shortlisted by Shakespeare India to commemorate the Bard’s 400th death centenary

Six scripts get shortlisted by Shakespeare India to commemorate the Bard’s 400th death centenary

By Dipti Nagpaul for The India Express, 11 August 2015 Two months ago, actor Rajat Kapoor was looking for producers for three of his finished scripts. Among those he met with was Cinestaan Film Company, whose team went through all the scripts and highlighted one — titled Mathura, it is about a theatre troupe in the town that is attempting to perform […]

August 15, 2015 · 0 comments · Uncategorized
Shakespeare revolutionised at Tasmanian College of the Arts

Shakespeare revolutionised at Tasmanian College of the Arts

University of Tasmania article, 28 April 2015 Taking crucial scenes from five of Shakespeare’s most brutal plays and sewing them into one cohesive storyline, CROWNS focuses on the tragedy that is the human condition and its lust for power. Greed and ambition are the major themes of this piece, set in an abstracted industrial zone, with all the characters weaving a complex tale […]

April 30, 2015 · 0 comments · Global, Teachers
It’s Shakespeare Week: are children well-school’d in the Bard?

It’s Shakespeare Week: are children well-school’d in the Bard?

By Lyn Gardner for The Guardian‘s Theatre blog, 17 March 2015 How should we introduce children to Shakespeare? I ask because it’s Shakespeare Week in primary schools, a nationwide initiative that aims to introduce the under-11s to the plays of the man who is inevitably dubbed in the online trailers as “the world’s greatest writer”. That always makes me think of Robert Graves’ pithy […]

March 26, 2015 · 0 comments · Teachers