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Sintang Dalisay is Tanghalang Ateneo’s rendition of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet in the Sama-Bajau dance tradition. A theatrical adaptation of the metrical romance Ang Sitang Dalisay ni Julieta at Romeo by G. D. Roke.
Read More“The Tempest Reimagined is a co-production between the British Council and PETA (Philippine Educational Theater Association). It is a modern adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest set on a Philippine island hit by super typhoon Haiyan, and incorporates stories of the storm’s survivors. It features award-winning artists from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA), Hong Kong, and Japan.” –description from the British Council website
Read MoreA Performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Tanghalang Pilipino, using Rolando Tinio’s translation Pangarap sa Isang Gabi ng Gitnang Tag-Araw.
Read MoreA Cebuano version of the play that was “reset in pre-Islamic Maranao times with character and locale names transposed accordingly. Presented by the Xavier Stage of Xavier University in Cagayan de Oro, the production gave ample play to Maranao folklore and customs as well as to traditional costumes and music.” –blurb from the Asian Shakespeare Association Newsletter
Read More“A cleverly crafted tale of mistaken identities, loves lost and found, families gone astray and made whole again.” –description from the DUP Official Page
Read MoreHamlet in Bed
Presented in English
Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh, Scotland, as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe
August 3-29, 2016
“Noir thriller about sex, death, theatre and the world's most famous play. Direct from its hit off-Broadway season starring Oscar and Emmy-nominated actress Annette O'Toole.
"Provocative, intense, sexy!" (Hollywood Reporter).
"Electrifying" 5 stars (Time Out, NY Critics' Pick)” --description from Fringe Programme.
Richard Jordan Productions and Brian Long with Pleasance
Writer: Michael Laurence
Director: Lisa Peterson
Set Design: Rachel Hauck
Costumes: Jessica Pabst
Lighting: Scott Zielinski
Sound: Bart Fasbender
Cast:
Spencer Aste (Hamlet and Michael)
Annette O'Toole (Gertrude and Anna May Miller)
The roles of Hamlet /Michael are also played by Michael Laurence at selected performances.
This performance was previously put on in New York City in 2015.
Selected Reviews:
"Three Weeks review (5 stars): "A phenomenal take on Shakespeare’s play." http://www.threeweeksedinburgh.com/article/hamlet-in-bed-richard-jordan-productions-and-brian-long-productions/
Edinburgh Festivals Magazine review (5 Stars): "Hamlet in Bed shows insight into the lives of two lost people looking for acceptance with beautiful style."
http://www.edfestmag.com/hamlet-in-bed-2/
British Theatre Guide review (4 stars): "a beautifully acted play that will appeal to anyone in love with the Bard or New York theatricality."
http://www.britishtheatreguide.info/reviews/hamlet-in-bed-pleasance-court-13117
Edinburgh Guide review (4 stars): "a clever, innovative homage to the timeless, iconic role of Hamlet." http://www.edinburghguide.com/festival/2016/edinburghfringe/hamletinbedpleasancecourtyardreview-17231
WhatsOnStage review (3 stars): a "problematic study on aspects of Hamlet" http://www.whatsonstage.com/edinburgh-theatre/reviews/hamlet-in-bed-pleasance-courtyard-festival-fringe_41495.html
BroadwayBaby review (3 stars): "If you have an obsession with Hamlet that comes close to Michael’s, this is definitely a production for you. Otherwise... you might just regard the whole play as a ‘Freudian slip’."
http://broadwaybaby.com/shows/hamlet-in-bed/714939
Fest review (2 stars): "tells us more about the narcissism of Off-Broadway actors than about Shakespeare's characters"
https://www.festmag.co.uk/theatre/103623-hamlet-in-bed
Twelfth Night/Henry VI
Presented in English
Allan H. Treman State Marine Park, Ithaca, New York, USA
July 7-14, 2016
The Ithaca Shakespeare Company
“This summer, we'll be pairing the epic fourth installment in our history series with one of Shakespeare's richest and best-loved romantic comedies.
An exploration of love in all its forms, the crowning glory of Shakespeare's romantic comedies is a richly layered and endlessly entertaining play. Hilariously funny and deeply romantic, Twelfth Night features: a shipwreck, a clever heroine in disguise, twins that no one can tell apart, multiple cases of mistaken identity, a lovesick count, a lovesick countess, a pair of drunken pranksters, a duel (sort of), a pair of yellow stockings, a pirate, a fool, a madman, a bunch of lovers, a bunch of songs, and a whole lot of smiling!
When Henry V dies and leaves his young son on the throne, the divisions in the kingdom break open and England erupts into civil war. The Wars of the Roses pit the house of Lancaster against the house of York — one led by one of Shakespeare's most formidable women, and the other driven by the ominous rise of the future Richard III.
Drawing on material from all three parts of Shakespeare's Henry VI, this sweeping epic features the first appearance of Richard III, two of Shakespeare's strongest women in Queen Margaret and Joan of Arc, the scene that gave birth to the phrase "the Wars of the Roses," a popular rebellion with the slogan "Let's kill all the lawyers!", and some of the most thrilling and intense conflicts that Shakespeare ever created!” –From the company website
For More Information:
http://ithacashakespeare.org/prod/201607/index.php
Funding and Sponsorship:
Tompkins County Tourism Program
Cayuga Medical Center
A work-in-progress by three young actors.
“Weaving personal critique with the canonical Western text, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare, three theatre-makers from Metro Manila eviscerate the rigours of classical theatre through irreverent intrusions of performance art, devised-theatre, DIY aesthetics, all within a self-imposed PHP 5,000.00 budget.” –description from the Karnabal Festival Facebook site
Read More“Shakespeare's "rude mechanicals" of A Midsummer Night's Dream are speaking in the Shanghai dialect! It's one of the comic devices employed by the Shanghai Farce Troupe as they present a Chinese-language version of the original. The play also features other local elements, including traditional Chinese musical instruments.
The comedy follows the story of four lovers and a group of amateur actors and their adventures with woodland fairies and a duke and duchess. The cast is entirely Chinese, and they will also play traditional instruments like the erhu and flute to add a Chinese flavor to this more than 400-year-old English play.” –information from the CCTV article listed below
Read More…Is Merely a Madness “is a short one-act play that assembles a pastiche of lines from about a dozen Shakespearean plays. The lines are exchanged by two inmates, a female and a male, who seek meaningful moments of togetherness in a mental asylum.” –blurb from the Asian Shakespeare Association newsletter (regarding Shakespeare in the Philippines).
Read MoreIn honor of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, the the Reduced Shakespeare Company has penned their tenth play, which will debut at the Folger Theatre in April. "The Return of the Reduced Shakespeare Company" is an exciting headline for the Folger Shakespeare Library’s 2016 season.
Read MoreThe Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)
Presented in English
Lunchbox Theatre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
April 19 – 24, 2016
The Shakespeare Company
by Adam Long, Daniel Singer, and Jess Winfield
Directed by Kevin McKendrick
Also on Tour:
The Beddington Community Arts Centre (the home of StoryBook Theatre)
Local schools for 18 performances
Selected Review:
http://www.calgarysun.com/2016/04/21/the-complete-works-of-william-shakespeare-abridged-is-pure-comedy
The Folkwang Shakespeare Festival is an annual event hosted by the Folkwang University of the Arts, Germany. Every year the university invites three other institutions to join them in co-producing a given play. The director/student teams from each university craft their own productions independently, and in their native languages. After performing these at the festival, the teams then band together to craft and perform a collaborative production of the play (in English).
Read MoreThe Winter's Tale is the second performance in the BSF's 2016 "Play On" season. The BSF is dedicated to exploring Shakespeare and bringing the Bard's work to the community. The company works with other theaters and educational institutions in the Baltimore-Washington area. This is their second OP production. The company is dedicated to using Shakespeare's staging conditions, so the live music is not amplified artificially, and universal lighting is used for all shows.
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The Tobacco Factory Theatres opened in 1998 and initiated their two-play Shakespeare at the Tobacco programme in Spring 2000 with King Lear and A Midsummer Night's Dream. The organisation encourages experimentalism and aims to offer excellent art. This year the Factory Theatre season offers a Shakespearean double-bill: Hamlet and All’s Well That Ends Well.
Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory (stf) has produced 23 more Shakespeares (several of them twice), three Chekhovs, Stoppard’s Arcadia, Middleton & Rowley’s The Changeling and Sheridan’s The School for Scandal. It has enjoyed four national tours, co-produced with the Bristol Old Vic and the University of Bristol and played a season in the Barbican’s Pit. For the last two seasons it has co-produced its Bristol seasons with Tobacco Factory Theatres, a partnership that also produced Brian Friel’s neglected play, Living Quarters, at the Factory last autumn.
The company has been widely and repeatedly admired for the clarity of its story-telling, the raw intimacy of its in-the-round style at the Tobacco Factory, and the transparent unselfishness of its ensemble.
Read MoreA modern day, musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.
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The Maynardville Shakespeare is an annual event that celebrates its sixtieth anniversary this year. This year's Othello is in fact a revival of the 2015 Maynardville production, which proved immensely popular.
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Thank you for visiting our archive. Each performance submitted to our website will be explained in detail in its own blog post. You can choose to look through these posts in a variety of ways.
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This research was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
