Song of the Beast (짐승가), Brecht Samuel Baguette   

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This is a performance where Hamlet is transported to a slaughterhouse in modern day South Korea. While it appears to be an ordinary slaughterhouse from the outside, it is in fact a perfectly controlled place, where powerful men butcher and execute their opponents. One day, the boss named Lee Sang-cheol is killed, and his son Lee Hae-in is trying to revenge his father's death. Painting a picture of extreme violence and wicked plans carried out by beast-like men, and one boy seeking an escape.
 

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The Complete Deaths, Spymonkey

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All 74 on-stage deaths from Shakespeare's oeuvre realized in physical comedy by four actors.  With a LED-display counter monitoring the 75 deaths (they include the fly in Titus Andronicus) and propelling the action to the zero, The Complete Deaths is a fast-paced and entertaining tribute to the tragic ends of so many of Shakespeare's characters.  

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Sandaime Richard

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Sandaime Richard is written by Hideki Noda, described by revered Japanese director Yukio Ninagawa as 'the most talented playwright of contemporary Japan'. Noda effortlessly parallels the Wars of the Roses in England with the intrigue in an ikebana clan in Japan. From Noda’s script, Director Ong Keng Sen creates an extravaganza of comic turns with his signature style of juxtaposing Asian traditional performance forms, including the modern tradition of Takarazuka, a popular all-female entertainment revue. Inspired by William Shakespeare’s “Richard III” but very different, Sandaime Richard opens in Singapore this September before heading to Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre for a two-week run and later embarking on a Japanese tour of four cities.

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​Richard III, Schaubühne Berlin

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Thomas 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?”   

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A Different Romeo and Juliet, Dhaka Theatre Company  

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“The UK theatre company, Graeae has been working with Dhaka Theatre, Bangladesh since 2013 to create a long-term training programme with young disabled adults in Bangladesh. This collaboration lead to a new production of A Different Romeo and Juliet in 2016 to mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, as part of Shakespeare Lives.

The project was initiated by the British Council and Dhaka Theatre. The aim was to tackle the marginalisation of disabled people, make theatre in Bangladesh more inclusive and to offer audiences a new experience. Nasiruddin Yousuff of Dhaka Theatre will direct the final production. Yousuff directed the acclaimed Bengali production of The Tempest which was seen at Shakespeare’s Globe in 2012. Jenny Sealey, Artistic Director of Graeae, worked in collaboration with Yousuff and shared her expertise in training and development. Sealey was Co-Artistic Director of the London 2012 Paralympics Opening Ceremony.” –Information from the British Council website

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Hamlet, Victoria Theatre, Singapore

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Hamlet, Victoria Theatre, Singapore

Tan Hiep Phat’s (a beverage company) Hamlet was first staged in Vietnam in 2013. Last year, the resident company at the National Drama Theatre decided to bring the play back onto the Vietnamese stage. The 2016 production run in Singapore marks their international debut. Director of the Vietnam National Theatre, Nguyen The Vinh, envisages the production being the beginning of a "cooperation between the theatre and the private sector."

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Macbeth 馬克白

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Following 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.          

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I Don't Like It/ As You Like It, Cinematograph

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I Don’t Like It. As You Like It deals with the highs and lows faced by a circus troupe, highlighting the fact that to find yourself, you must become the other! Behind the smiles and entertainment, these are just ordinary people dealing with stress, angst and the madness that is life.   

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Richard II, Saitama Arts Theatre

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This highly theatrical production features a large cast of performers from the two companies of the Saitama Theatre. It therefore mixes young interpreters (Saitama Next) with elderly ones (Saitama Gold), who symbolically move on wheelchairs so as to highlight a feeling of the passing of time and of a physical and moral decaying.

Under the direction and supervision of its Artistic Director (the late Yukio Ninagawa), the “Sai-no-kuni Shakespeare Series”  has put on such popular works as Hamlet and Macbeth as well as plays rarely staged in Japan, such as Antony and Cleopatra and the epic trilogy Henry VI. Also popular is the “All Male Series,” which stages plays as they were originally performed, with an all-male cast. Starting with our co-production of King Lear with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the series has been successfully staged overseas such as in Stratford-upon-Avon, London, New York, and Seoul. Now it represents one of the most pioneering Shakespeare productions in Asia, and keeps receiving global attention.

Richard II is the last Shakespeare's play Ninagawa directed, since he passed away aged 80 at the beginning of May 2016.

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Hamlet, Schaubühne Berlin

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“Shakespeare represents the Danish royal court as a corrupt political system which becomes a paranoid maze for Hamlet. Murder, betrayal, manipulation and sexuality are the weapons used in the war to preserve power. Not able to take on and fight the cynical rules of the game at the court, Hamlet stagnates and turns his aggressions against himself. His gift of distinguishing pros and cons becomes an insurmountable hindrance in accomplishing his goals, and as the last person with scruples in a system without any, he is finally doomed. With its central paradox of the incapacitated protagonist, Hamlet remains today a valid analysis of the intellectual dilemma between complex thinking and political action. Shakespeare serves up over twenty characters, allowing a political biosphere to arise out of differing interests and intrigue. In Ostermeier’s production, just six actors will play all these characters, constantly changing roles. Hamlet’s progressive loss of touch with reality, his disorientation, the manipulation of reality and identity are mirrored in the acting style, which takes pretense and disguise as its basic principle.”—From Schaubühne’s website

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Hamlet, Globe to Globe Tour

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A two-year tour of Shakespeare’s most famous play to 197 countries in 202 venues across the world.

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