“Hamlet²” (“Amleto²”)
In late January and early February, Filippo Timi’s Hamlet² played to full houses at the 500-seater...
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In Oldenburg’s “The Tempest,” Trusting The Text Pays Off
For this production of Shakespeare’s play, Oldenburgisches Staatstheateer used the 2007...
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“Leili And Majnun:” An Ancient Love Story For Modern Times
We all know the iconic closing lines: “For never was a story of more woe / Than this of...
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Evil Can Appear Beautiful
Two major productions of Richard III are touring Italy in the present season, a sign perhaps that...
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Shakespeare In The Park At The New Delacorte Theater: Love Is Gender Fluid
In a world where the rule is to make huge efforts to attain an “effortless, relaxed” look, the new...
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29th International Shakespeare Festival runs in Gdańsk (Poland) from 25 July to 3 August
Seventeen productions, including nine premieres, from Japan, Ukraine, the UK, Spain, and Poland,...
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“Hamlet”, Teatro La Plaza, Barbican
’To be or not to be’, that is a question with a completely new ring to it in Teatro La Plaza’s...
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Catharsis in the Eleventh Row: The Aesthetics of Truth on Stage and an Audience That Is Not Afraid of the Dark
The time of frozen catharsis is now. But what kind of theatre refuses purification? Theatre...
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Theatre “Haunts” People
An Interview with Mr. Horia Gârbea – Playwright, dramaturg, translator, Bucaresti, Romania Horia...
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“Malvolio’s Fantasy.” A Glitzy Retelling Of Twelfth Night
A cast of young actors from diverse parts of the globe brought Malvolio’s Fantasy to the Space...
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Climate Change Shakespeare. “A Midsummer’s Tempest”
On this year’s Edinburgh Fringe a raft of reimaginings of Shakespeare’s plays, by emerging and...
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Scottish Nursery School Kids Bring A Comedic Shakespeare To The Fringe
A unique feature of Edinburgh’s Fringe festival is its inclusive nature. Professional and...
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“Hamstrung.” Yorick’s Untold Story
Hamlet, along with A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Tempest and Macbeth, are probably the...
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52nd Venice Theatre Biennale (15-30 June). Tim Crouch’s “Truth’s A Dog Must To Kennel”
After Brexit, UK productions very rarely play in Italy, but Biennale theatre directors Gianni...
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“Macbeth” at the Donmar Warehouse
How to render Macbeth anew—and how to do it well? It’s a question that has undoubtedly preoccupied...
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Prison Shakespeare at Milan’s Young Offenders Institute
Since 2015 my theatre studies colleague, Cristina Cavecchi, and I have been leading Shakespeare...
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Venus and Adonis: this “play within a plague” about Shakespeare is wildly romantic, erotic and colorful
Shakespeare wrote his famous narrative poem Venus and Adonis in a lockdown era when, in 1593, the...
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“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players” at Shakespeare Festival in Serbia
The tenth in a row international theatre festival “Shakespeare Festival”, whose...
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Shakespeare’s First Folio Turns 400: What Would Be Lost Without the Collection? An Expert Speculates
It has been 400 years since the publication of the first collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays,...
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“The Winter’s Tale” Review: Jarring Shakespeare’s Globe Production Lacks Warmth
The Winter’s Tale is one of Shakespeare’s great “hospitality plays” — a tragicomedy about what...
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