world shakespeare festival
Globe to Globe: King John, Shakespeare's Globe
Saturday, 19 May 2012
You might have wondered if, when Armenia was offered King John as part of the Globe to Globe season, they felt they’d drawn the short straw. Not a bit of it. Shakespeare’s early history... Read more... |
Globe to Globe: Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2, Shakespeare's Globe
Thursday, 17 May 2012
The two parts of Henry IV parts 1 and 2 are very macho plays. Men drink, tell rude jokes, strut and lie their way into power and influence. In Globe to Globe's Latin American takes on the... Read more... |
Globe to Globe: Henry VI, Parts 1, 2 and 3, Shakespeare's Globe
Monday, 14 May 2012
There was always going to be one Borat moment in this festival. And it came courtesy of the Albanians, who, for comic effect, in the middle of their Henry VI, Part 2 indulged in the... Read more... |
Globe to Globe: The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Shakespeare's Globe
Saturday, 12 May 2012
The concept sounds like something dreamed up towards the bottom of a bottle in a Harare shebeen: Two Gentlemen of Verona performed by two gentlemen in Shona. But if any of the plays can... Read more... |
Globe to Globe: The Tempest, Shakespeare's Globe
Wednesday, 09 May 2012
This music crept by me on the waters. Bangladesh’s Dhaka Theatre’s version of The Tempest took the musical route, and why not? It was always Shakespeare’s most musical play (with extant... Read more... |
Globe to Globe: Titus Andronicus, Shakespeare's Globe
Tuesday, 08 May 2012
The demands of Titus Andronicus are probably at odds with the constraints of the Globe to Globe season: a travelling troupe would find it hard to get 80 gallons of fake blood through... Read more... |
Globe to Globe: Othello, Shakespeare's Globe
Monday, 07 May 2012
The masterstroke of this take on Othello was to draw its focus away from race. It might seem odd to say that of a production in the rhyming vernacular of hip hop in which the Moor was... Read more... |
Globe to Globe: Richard II, Shakespeare's Globe
Sunday, 06 May 2012
Mention that a Palestinian theatre company are performing Richard II and the play’s themes are immediately thrown into sharp relief: usurpation, homeland and banishment, and the... Read more... |
Globe to Globe: Cymbeline, Shakespeare's Globe
Friday, 04 May 2012
This retelling of the Cymbeline story opened – or at least appeared to open – with the entire cast contributing their tuppenceworth on the issue of what the story of Cymbeline... Read more... |
Globe to Globe: Julius Caesar, Shakespeare's Globe
Thursday, 03 May 2012
There has long been a conviction in Italian drama circles that there exists a “Special Relationship” between themselves and il Bardo di Stratford: something to do with the complexities of... Read more... |