A Sonnet For You, Würzburg
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Half a dozen actors in ruffs stopped approximately 150 people in the town centre and recited sonnet 23 to them to commemorate Shakespeare's birthday and to advertise upcoming events.
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Julius Caesar – Spared Parts (Giulio Cesare – Pezzi staccati)
/Giulio Cesare – Pezzi staccati (Julius Caesar – Spared Parts) is a show inspired by Shakespeare’s tragedy. Romeo Castellucci brings back to the theatre a shortened version of his ground-breaking 1997 production of Julius Caesar in a new version made up of ‘fragments’ that evoke the original.
Read MoreRichard III, Schaubühne Berlin
/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?”
Read MoreShakespeare 400 Funeral Procession, Gdansk
/The event was a unique artistic performance on the streets of Gdańsk, where 400 mourners walked in a “funeral procession” through central Gdańsk (Poland) to the Gdansk Shakespeare Theatre. The final stage of the event took place inside the Theatre.
Read MoreA Midsummer Nights Dream, Darlington
/The lovers scene from A Midsummer Nights Dream, commisioned by Darlington Green Theatre, performed as flash-mob theatre in the Cornmill in Darlington, surrounded by unsuspecting shoppers.
Read MoreIn anima noptii - Episodul Lear (In the Night's Heart - The Lear Episode)
/The Lear Episode is part of a cycle entitled In the Night’s Heart, a project that draws upon Shakespearean plays. It takes place open air, in a structure enveloped in huge transparent plastic curtains. It was composed of twelve sections taken from Shakespeare's King Lear.
Read MoreKings of War, Toneelgroep Amsterdam
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A radical reworking of Shakespeare's Henry V, 1, 2 and 3, Henry VI, and Richard III, combining bold cuts - 1 Henry VI is reduced to two brief sequences totalling just under 200 words - with van Hove's characteristic attention to the nuances of the Shakespearean text. Other prominent features are: the use of live video footage, a flock of sheep when Henry VI fantasies about being a 'homely swain', and the layering of the performance space - a brightly lit white corridor wraps around the main stage and a huge screen and a ceiling-high wall mirror bring additional depth to the main staging area.
Read MoreRomeo si Julieta, Parrabola and Teatrulescu Companies
/A fresh and vibrant community production of Romeo and Juliet, involving local amateurs, young performers, and a few British actors. This promenade performance starts in the foyer of the theatre and then moves through various spaces in the city: inhabiting public parks, the main city square, narrow streets or large avenues as it was the case with Juliet’s funeral procession which impeded the regular streaming of traffic amid cry and tears of the performers grieving Juliet’s death. A rare example of theatre irrupting city life.
Read MoreRomeo si Julieta, Teatrul National 'Radu Stanca' Sibiu
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The company of young interpreters is made up of students from the Theatre Department of the "Lucian Blaga" University of Sibiu. The play was first staged in 2011 and when it was presented at the International Theatre Festival " Riverside Left" in 2015 in Moscow, it was awarded the Special Jury Award for best modern interpretation.
The Tempest (Furtuna), Craiova
/The show is an adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest for a young audience and it features actors and puppets. It took place open air and attracted a mixed audience of children and grown-ups.
Read MoreThe Winter's Tale, Sfumato Theatre Laboratory
/Director Margarita Mladenova, co-founder of Sfumato, decided to stage her version of The Winter’s Tale in a snow-white setting; scenes and costumes are therefore signs of the ice cold life after humans lose love. As she stated, The Winter's Tale "is about a human who is lost and destroys his own life and the life of his closest kin." The sets suggest the characters are being treated in a sort of hospital's ward or, worse, they are already in a mortuary room.
Read MoreHenry V, Antic Disposition
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“England’s idealistic army marches to war, certain of a swift and glorious victory. France proudly rallies to defend her borders from invasion. But as nations clash, it is the common soldiers who pay the ultimate price in the bloody mud of the battlefield.
Marking both the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt and the ongoing centenary of the First World War, Antic Disposition presents a new production of Shakespeare’s Henry V.
Performed by a combined cast of British and French actors, the uplifting production celebrates the rich and complex historical relationship between our two nations – from the Hundred Years War to the Entente Cordiale.”
Read MoreJulius Caesar, Craiova
/Peter Schneider has worked with a group of young talented Romanian artists to create a provocative and contemporary visual language that moves fluidly between reality and unexpected, surprising and shocking images.
Read MoreMalvolio's Misorder, Victoria and Albert Museum
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Dominic Gerrard's play was commissioned for the V&A Performance Festival 2016. A theatrical tour, led by Malvolio, descends into lively chaos when Sir Toby gatecrashes it, and Maria gets caught in the middle of a ferocious argument. This promenade performance features the real Great Bed of Ware (part of the V&A collections), mentioned in Twelfth Night.
“Meet Malvolio who has been practising speeches all day for his tour of Lady Olivia's private collections but things very quickly start to go wrong once his guests arrive...”
Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made On
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An immersive production based on The Tempest. Opening with a fake academic talk and culminating in a rave to Donna Summer, Sedos' Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made On magically transformed an empty office space into an isle full of noises for its audiences to explore, guided by spirits and candlelight.
Read MoreFalstaff, Kungliga Operan
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Giuseppe Verdi's last opera is an ebullient comic masterpiece about a joyful knight. The work is based on Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor and is a humorous celebration of love and life. Set, directed by Ann-Margret Pettersson, premiered at the Opera in 2009 with a colorful stage design of the high esteem the artist Lennart Jirlow.
Read MoreHamlet, Göteborgsoperan
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The Swedish premiere of Ambroise Thomas’ opera. Director Stephen Langridge - artistic director – focuses on political manipulation and family relations that are so complex they could drive anyone to madness. In a modern setting where you are watched everywhere it’s hard to differ between reality, illusion and paranoid delusions.
Read MoreMuch Ado About Nothing, Folkwang University
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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 MoreHamlet our brother, London
/The Jack Studio Theatre is a space for companies to explore. They also boast their own in-house team, and have received multiple Off West End Nominations, including design nominations for such Shakespearean productions as Merchant of Venice, and Julius Caesar. This is Stubbs Hughes’ second adaptation and second production.
The Jack Studio Theatre is a space for companies to explore. They also boast their own in-house team, and have received multiple Off West End Nominations, including design nominations for such Shakespearean productions as Merchant of Venice, and Julius Caesar. This is Stubbs Hughes’ second adaptation and second production.
Mig og Monika og Shakespeare, Denmark
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Puppet theatre for adults. Monika and Per travel through time to Shakespeare’s London to find the author of the world’s greatest love stories. Then Shakespeare falls in love with Monika. A triangular love drama develops. The production explores the way love influences people and art through Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis.
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