world shakespeare festival
Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare's Globe review - swaggering Shakespeare with a comic Spanish accent
Friday, 21 July 2017
When I say that Matthew Dunster’s Much Ado is revolutionary I’m not talking about the many textual updatings and rewritings, not the lashings of PJ Harvey, nor even the gunfire –... Read more... |
When Hamlet came to a Syrian refugee camp
Sunday, 01 November 2015
It would have been impossible to go to Syria. Our plan to perform Hamlet in every nation in the world faced its biggest obstacle to date and the Globe producers were left pondering a Plan B. We... Read more... |
Theatre: The Best of 2012
Thursday, 27 December 2012
For much of 2012, London theatre seemed to celebrate the playhouse as much as the play, turning certain venues into essential destinations. I'm thinking, of course, of Shakespeare's Globe, whose... Read more... |
Globe to Globe: Henry V, Shakespeare's Globe
Friday, 15 June 2012
Henry V is a play with so many layers, and such ambivalence, that it can suit a multitude of purposes. When Laurence Olivier made his film version in 1944, it was as a propagandist... Read more... |
How Globe to Globe Staged the World
Wednesday, 06 June 2012
Over the past six weeks, we at the Globe have put on a festival called Globe to Globe. The concept (an idea of Dominic Dromgoole’s) was always very simple to explain: all of Shakespeare’s plays,... Read more... |
Globe to Globe: Hamlet, Shakespeare's Globe
Monday, 04 June 2012
We’re fresh out of superlatives. The Globe to Globe season has put a girdle around the earth in 37 languages, and the visiting companies have now left the building. You have to high-five the Globe... Read more... |
Globe to Globe: Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare's Globe
Sunday, 03 June 2012
Productions at the life-changing Globe to Globe sequence of international takes on the Bard have had numerous points of origin, from shows conceived directly for the event to reprises of stagings... Read more... |
Globe to Globe: Timon of Athens, Shakespeare's Globe
Saturday, 02 June 2012
Diamonds one day, stones the next: compulsive giver Timon’s swift descent into raving misanthropy would be better packed into a gritty pop ballad than a full-length play. Still, Shakespeare just... Read more... |
Globe to Globe: The Comedy of Errors, Shakespeare’s Globe
Friday, 01 June 2012
The Comedy of Errors may not be one of Shakespeare’s most notable plays, yet this production embodied the essence of the Globe to Globe season. While the play was lent new kinds of... Read more... |
Globe to Globe: Henry VIII, Shakespeare's Globe
Thursday, 31 May 2012
Now here's a surprise. In English, Henry VIII gets dismissed as a Shakespearean dud (well, let's apportion the blame as well to the play's generally acknowledged co-author, John Fletcher... Read more... |