By Lyn Gardner for The Guardian, 21 June 2015 There is a moment during the final part of Ivo van Hove’s conflation of Shakespeare’s Henry V, Henry VI and Richard III when Hans Kesting’s scheming Richard tries on the crown for size. He capers around like a gruesome child who has been at the dressing-up box and who does not comprehend the […]
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 […]
By Andrew Dickinson for The Guardian, 31 March 2015 A South African academic reckons it’s time to dig up William Shakespeare. Inspired by the revelations about Richard III, recently liberated from a car park in Leicester, professor Francis Thackeray of Wits University, in Johannesburg, claims he is “very interested by the possibility” of subjecting Shakespeare to the same treatment. “Given the extraordinary success of the […]
By The Telegraph video and PA, 23 March 2015 Members of the public will be able to view the coffin of Richard III, as he lies in repose at Leicester Cathedral ahead of his reburial later this week, more than 500 years after his death in battle. Thousands lined the route of the last Plantagenet king’s cortege yesterday before a special service […]
By Victoria Ward for The Telegraph, 30 March 2015 An academic has called for Shakespeare’s remains to be exhumed so that more can be learned about his life, following the successful analysis of Richard III’s bones. Francis Thackeray, from the University of the Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg, said he was “very interested in the possibility” of examining Shakespeare’s grave. “Given the extraordinary […]
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