…Shakespeare theatre in Stratford, or Shakespeare’s Globe on Bankside. There would be no Shakespeare festivals around the world, such as that in Stratford, Ontario. In fact, Stratford, Ontario, named in…
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Visionary director Ivo van Hove has descended on the evocatively retro Park Avenue Armory with the venerated Comédie-Française troupe in tow to present The Damned. The production is an adaptation…
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…the ambiance – enthralls and draws the audience into the game. The director of the play, Ivan Vanja Alač, consistently adheres to Shakespeare’s play, leaving his personal stamp of direction…
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Shakespeare wrote his famous narrative poem Venus and Adonis in a lockdown era when, in 1593, the bubonic plague closed the theaters in London for 18 months. In Shakespeare’s poem…
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…Optics of Art” symposium. It brought contemporary media and performance artists Benjamin Vandewalle, Julien Maire, and Sarah Vanagt into dialogue with scholars from theatre studies, history of science, and cognitive…
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…opportunity to touch the very first version of Molière’s text, becoming spectators of Ivo van Hove’s performance at the Comédie Française, Molière’s home. Of course, this is not quite the…
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Vanya is alive; Vanya is alive and healthy; Vanya is alive and healthy and totally free. And we are safe because we keep silent. On 27 July a small group…
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…families but belongs to society at large. In conclusion, we hope our Shakespeare prison workshops can become better known and perhaps help other practitioners who are developing Shakespeare workshops in…
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…literally… I think again it’s about “What would you do -” if you’re feeding the machine, feeding the void, feeding whatever is that entity, the genie that says he’ll grant…
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…celebrating their tenth anniversary, poet and playwright Debris Stevenson (Poet in Da Corner) adapts Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing as the final segment of reality TV show “Nothing Island.” “If…
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…direct. Or do they? Lolita Chakrabarti’s Hamnet, her adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 hit for the Royal Shakespeare Company, now arrives in the West End and will interest many of…
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…gender and intercultural performances of Shakespeare in East Asia. She completed both her undergraduate degree in English Literature, and Master’s degree in Renaissance Literature, at the University of Edinburgh, UK….
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…little in a boiling cauldron until it vanished completely (Bolaño 887). Bolaño never announces what is of paramount importance. Rather, he requires of his reader something like the “evenly hovering…
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…Professor Maya Volodymyrivna Harbuzyuk. Maya Harbuzyuk was a professor at the Ivan Franko National University in Lviv, Ukraine, and Dean of the Faculty of Culture and Arts at this university….
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This spring saw the premiere of three productions of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet in London: CoLab’s interactive piece, the Union Theatre’s version exploring homosexuality in football, and the Globe’s new…
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The Winter’s Tale is one of Shakespeare’s great “hospitality plays” — a tragicomedy about what goes wrong when a guest outstays their welcome. Leontes, king of Sicilia, suspects his friend…
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…Biziuk, PeKiN. 39. Klancyk (@Klaaancyk), “Nasza nowa rzeczywistość…,” Facebook, April 9, 2020, https://www. facebook.com/Klaaancyk/posts/10163444424510207. 40. Klancyk (@Klaaancyk), “Powoli wynurzamy się z domów,” Facebook, May 10, 2020, https://www.facebook.com/Klaaancyk/posts/10163655385445207. 41. Klancyk (@Klaaancyk),…
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…Stroud, T.A. “Hamlet and Shakespeare.” Shakespeare Quarterly, vol. 9, no. 3, 1958, pp. 367-372. Williams, Kirk. “The Ghost in the Machine: Heiner Müller’s Devouring Melancholy.” Modern Drama, vol. 49, no….
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…the stage, even in an unfamiliar language, adds a special aura to the audience’s perception of the production. Leaning Church, directed by Radovan Lipus, is a production of the Czech…
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