Vivacious and Unapologetic, “The Rover’s” 17th-century Feminism is Painfully Pertinent
The Rover, now on at Belvoir Theatre in Sydney, starts unexpectedly, with long-dead 17th-century...
Read MorePosted by Claire Hansen | 9th Jul 2017 | Australia, Sydney, Theatre and Gender
The Rover, now on at Belvoir Theatre in Sydney, starts unexpectedly, with long-dead 17th-century...
Read MorePosted by Claire Hansen | 8th Nov 2015 | Australia, Directing, Review
Today, Shakespeare’s Hamlet is a play that haunts itself. Its saturation into cultural...
Read MorePosted by Claire Hansen | 25th May 2015 | Australia, Review, Theatre and Politics
The Merchant Of Venice (first published in 1600) boasts a problematic and sometimes controversial...
Read MorePosted by Claire Hansen | 29th Jul 2014 | Adaptation, Australia, Review
Sydney Theatre Company’s new production of Macbeth may draw attention for its star, Hugo Weaving,...
Read MorePosted by Claire Hansen | 16th Jun 2014 | Australia, Review, Theatre and Politics
Bell Shakespeare’s new production of William Shakespeare’s Henry V–which opened in Canberra on...
Read MorePosted by Claire Hansen | 31st Mar 2014 | Australia, Directing, Review
Love is a battlefield. While Pat Benatar might have made this line her own in the 1980s,...
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