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Othello at the Union Theatre
Setting Othello in early 20th century India is a radical choice, and one that brings with it a number of risks.
A Problem Play No Longer: Measure For Measure at the Young Vic
How does Joe Hill-Gibbins’ bold new production of Measure For Measure deal with Shakespeare’s “problem play”? Unproblematically, says Xenobe Purvis.
“How Much I Lack of a Man”: Twelfth Night: A Gender Experiment at the Rose Theatre, Bankside
This year, the Rose Theatre is staging an ambitious experiment: four different versions of Twelfth Night in rep, each with a different gender permutation. It engages, amuses and disconcerts, writes ...
Shear Insanity: King Lear With Sheep at the Courtyard Theatre
Hailey Bachrach refused to believe that King Lear With Sheep existed. But then she went. And it was real. King Lear… performed by sheep.
Wilderness Festival: The Oxford Shakespeare Company Presents Twelfth Night
In her second review from this year’s Wilderness Festival, Becky Ayre watches a charming outdoor version of Twelfth Night.
The Weight of History: Meditations on Shakespeare’s Henry V
Hailey Bachrach watches three different versions of Shakespeare’s Henry V – one in Galway (at the Mick Lally Theatre) and two in London (at the Unicorn Theatre and the Wheatsheaf ...
Titus Androgynous: All-Female Titus Andronicus at the Greenwich Theatre
Just as the Globe and Propeller present all-male Shakespeare without explaining why, Smooth-Faced Gentlemen’s all-female Titus Andronicus offers no commentary for its casting: it simply is.
The Tragedy of Emilia?: Othello at the Rose Theatre, Bankside
It’s often overlooked that Othello ends with not one, but two, marital murders. This bold new production, set in contemporary London, allows Emilia’s tragedy to stand alongside Desdemona’s.
Protean Shakespeare: Shakespeare in Love and the Many Faces of the Bard
As Shakespeare in Love opens at the Noel Coward Theatre, Xenobe Purvis looks at how generations have shaped the Bard in their image.
Thankless Children: Write at the Heart:1 at the Southwark Playhouse
While Sam Mendes’ totalitarian King Lear holds gory court at the National Theatre, a fledgling new writing night by SALT Theatre offers an irreverent spin on Shakespeare’s grimmest tragedy. Lauren ...
I Remember: “From the Table of my Memory”
Philip Davis, editor of The Reader Magazine, puts Shakespeare in an fMRI and watches the brain light up, its pathways shift.
A Tropical Bard and The Bard of Avon: Shakespeare in the Hands of Thomas Decker, A Sierra Leonean Dramatist
“And it was this way of life that Thomas Decker was challenging when he called upon his compatriots to consider their language as a legitimate medium not only for conducting ...
Book Review: The Letterpress Shakespeare
The Folio Society has been quietly turning out beautifully crafted letterpress editions of the works of Shakespeare. Litro recently had the chance to consider the craftwork, and goats, that went ...
Shakespearean Sonnet Competition: Desktop
In the last of our Shakespearean Sonnet competition winners, Philippa Barker contemplates her desktop.
Shakespearean Sonnet Competition: Banished
In the fourth of our Shakespearean Sonnet competition winners, Linda Atterton takes a new angle on Romeo and Juliet.
Shakespearean Sonnet Competition: When I Behold
In the third of our Shakespearean Sonnet competition winners, Brian Robert Flynn revisits John Keats’ sonnet 635: ‘When I have fears that I may cease to be’.
Shakespearean Sonnet Competition: Sonnet 666
In the first of our Shakespearean Sonnet competition winners, Uschi Gatward reappropriates Sonnet 66 for the modern economy.
Wooing and Weddings: the ‘Hallmark Shakespeare’?
“Imagine the scene: an angry father hauls his young daughter in front of a city governor, demanding the death penalty for her disobedience in refusing to marry the man he ...
Ted Hughes and Shakespeare: “A Particular Knot of Obsessions”
Ann Skea looks back on why only Ted Hughes could have written Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being — an audacious and imaginative reappraisal of the works of Shakespeare.
William Shakespeare’s Dangerous Liaisons
Rory Clements, whose sixth book in the John Shakespeare series of Elizabethan thrillers has just been published, uncovers a deadly circle of intrigue and treason in his hero’s home town, ...