The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) has been the site of many creative adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays. The latest, Ivo van Hove’s Kings of War, which ran at BAM from Nov. 3 to 6, is a multimedia mashup of characters, lines and scenes from Shakespeare’s history plays. “Extensively cut,” “deeply cut,” and “severely cut” are … Continue reading How “Cutting Up” Shakespeare’s Plays Can Be An Act Of Creative Destruction