The Merchant of Venice, The Globe
/A revival of Jonathan Munby’s highly-acclaimed 2015 production of The Merchant of Venice, with Jonathan Pryce as Shylock.
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A revival of Jonathan Munby’s highly-acclaimed 2015 production of The Merchant of Venice, with Jonathan Pryce as Shylock.
Read MoreThomas Ostermeier’s Richard III, interpreted by Lars Eidinger in an outstanding performance, has a direct relationship to his audience throughout the play and seems to ask them, in the director words, just that: “Have you ever wanted to do what Richard does? Have you never felt the desire to commit wrongful acts?”
Read MoreFollowing Tang's minimalist, metatheatrical black-box physical theatre adaptation of Titus Andronicus (which also toured to the London Globe), Tang adapts Macbeth in a metatheatrical narrative in which a couple dreams that they enter the world of Macbeth in ancient China. They become Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, and once they wake up from the dream, they reflect on contemporary politics. This production is stylized.
Read MoreThis research was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada