By Tim Dunleavy for DC Metro Theater Arts, 1 Nov. 2015 Equivocation, Bill Cain’s alternative history about William Shakespeare getting caught up in deadly royal court intrigue, is exceedingly clever and almost dizzyingly erudite. And it has some quite funny moments early on. But it soon turns dark and depressing, focusing on a historical event that’s bleak and, to many […]
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 Hannah Furness for The Telegraph, 17 October 2015 He was master of the pithy put down, the romantic sonnet and the dramatic plot twists to capture the public imagination for the last 450 years. But his talents did not end there. For Shakespeare, widely acknowledged the greatest playwright in the history of the English language, was also an expert amateur […]
By Germaine Greer for NewStatesman, 6 October 2015 Having had a great success in 2005 with 1599: a Year in the Life of William Shakespeare, James Shapiro has provided his many admirers with an account of another year, 1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear. Literary biography is a tricky genre, and not made more straightforward by slicing it into year-long […]
By Cahal Milmo for The Independent, 5 October 2015 It is the sort of dilemma that the Bard himself might have relished. Whether to sell part of the family seat to protect what remains of it or refuse and risk future damage to a treasured corner of “this other Eden”. Campaigners have expressed disappointment at a decision by the charity in charge […]
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