Playing Richard
Though theatrical season 2020/2021 isn’t the most eventful, it has brought to the stage number of...
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Tag: Richard III
The End of An Era: Goodbye and Thank-you to the Pavón Teatro Kamikaze
It’s December 22nd, not quite the night before Christmas but not far off, and the news has just...
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Druid Shakespeare: “Richard III” – The Voracious Void
A series of questions filled my mind. What was the motivation behind the choice of sets and costumes? In my opinion, the only thing that really worked well set wise was the ever-present void on stage, the grave downstage in which all bodies were thrown in – a constant reminder of death and of Richard’s deeds.
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Russia Meets Iran: J’afari, Vișniec and Meyerhold, Partners of Ideology, Traversers of History
Read Farinaz Kavianifar’s interview with Rūhollah J’afari. On the evening of August 3, 2018,...
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Hidden Women Of History: Eliza Winstanley, Colonial Stage Star And Our First Female Richard III
In this series, we look at under-acknowledged women through the ages. In December 1882, Eliza...
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Where There Is Cowardice, Winking Returns: A Conversation with Hungarian Director Róbert Alföldi
Fear Eats the Soul (Átrium), The Crucible (Szombathely) and Richard III (Radnóti Színház) – these...
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“My Kingdom For A…”–What?! Andrei Şerban’s “Richard III” At The Radnóti Theatre, Budapest
Shakespeare’s history play revolves around a strange creature, the monster of power. Yet it poses...
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Gloster, The Reptile: Andrei Şerban’s “Richard III”
Shakespeare: Richard III / Radnóti Miklós Theatre His face is yellow beneath the high-gloss strap...
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“Teenage Dick”: A Study Of The Stereotypical Villain
Produced in conjunction with Ma-Yi Theater Company, the world premiere of Teenage Dick at The...
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“Anjou”: Lady Chamberlain
Re-visiting Shakespeare is a perennial theatrical exercise, and Richard the Third’s malevolent...
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Swedish Premieres: Upending Ibsen, Deconstructing Richard
On a recent trip to Sweden to interview the playwright Jonas Hassen Khemiri, whose plays are now...
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A Year Filled With Standing Ovations
While 2017 featured many great stage productions and performances, these were among the standouts:...
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Thomas Ostermeier’s “Richard III” at BAM
Richard Crookback is Shakespeare’s dazzling carnival monster, a showoff criminal who charms us...
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The 16th Shakespeare Festival in Gdańsk
This year, the plays staged at the festival spoke about distrust of authority and suspicion of the...
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