Romeo and Juliet, Taking Flight Theatre

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Taking Flight Theatre's take on Romeo and Juliet set the tragic love story in 1963 with the Montagues and Capulets fighting it out on the river for the annual college boat race. The promenade performance featured many of the company's trademarks including lots of audience interaction, BSL by Sami Thorpe and live audio description. Taking Flight Theatre is a professional inclusive theatre company based in Cardiff, Wales who work to challenge perceptions of disability through accessible theatre performances.    

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Into the Breach, London

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“George Crocker is keen to liven up his dull life so he decides to join the village Drama Club. What happens then turns his world upside down. Set during the Second World War this nostalgic, funny and moving story will appeal to all. It is a vivid portrait of village life with all seventeen colourful characters played by one man.”

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 productions of Merchant of Venice and Julius Caesar. Mark Carey has been touring with Into The Breach since 2013; it is an exciting addition to the theatre's repertoire.

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Hamlet#casting

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"Hamlet#Casting is a combination of contradictions. It is a tale of the everyday, which can be banal and full of played-out scenarios. Musical hits which tell of unrequited love, Facebook conversations which do not bring happiness, dreams from TV serials. Against this background, Hamlet asks himself questions which sound like a repetitive chorus: am I good enough, valued, desired? Am I myself? Can one really live in a world in which one is always being watched?"

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Much Ado About Nothing, Theatr Clwyd

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Theatr Clwyd's Much Ado About Nothing featured a Portmeirion village inspired set with a chess board lawn, upon which Beatrice and Benedick waged their battle of wits. The design echoed that of the RSC's Love's Labour's Lost/Love's Labour's Won (2014). Theatr Clwyd transformed their Anthony Hopkins Theatre "to make the production more intimate, exciting and absorbing". The audience sat on banks of seating on either side of the stage, with additional seating available at tables on-stage. In addition to celebrating the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, the production marked Theatr Clwyd’s 40th birthday and its 400th show.

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Much Ado About Nothing, Sudden Impulse

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“Award-winning Sudden Impulse Theatre Company make their Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut with Shakespeare's classic comedy, celebrating 400 years since the death of the Bard. Enjoy this much-loved comedy, performed outside in the gardens at Greenside.” --description from Fringe Programme)   

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Macbeth at the Redcliffe Caves, Insane Root

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Macbeth at the Redcliffe Caves, Insane Root

This site-specific promenade production of Macbeth took part in the atmospheric, blood-red walled Redcliffe Caves as part of the Bristol Shakespeare Festival. The cast of seven lead small audiences through the labyrinthine caves as they told the story of a once-loyal soldier in a supernatural war-torn Scotland.  

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Lady Macbeth, South West Dance Theatre 

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This production moved Shakespeare's Macbeth into the present day and thrust Lady Macbeth into the spotlight. Combining ballet, street, contemporary dance, Latin, poetry, prose and British Sign language for the deaf, South West Dance Theatre retold the classic tale. In this version, it was Lady Macbeth who found her natural drive and motivations displaced, forfeiting virtue and honour for a more meteoric career.

South West Dance Theatre is a Bristol-based collective that promotes diversity in dance through eclectic home-grown choreography drawing on a range of styles from ballet and contemporary to street, jazz and Latin.  As well as performing to audiences in a range of venues from theatres to festivals, the company brings their fresh expressive dance theatre to a variety of subjects from the physics of light to Shakespeare. In April 2016, the company also led a Macbeth-inspired dance workshop for pupils at Elmfield School for Deaf.

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The Tempest, Quantum Theatre

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“On a remote island, Prospero plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place using illusion, magical spirits and skilful manipulation. Shakespeare's enchanting, fast-paced, family comedy performed in the beautiful outdoor setting of Inveresk Lodge.” –description from the Fringe Programme

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The HandleBards

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The "world's first cycling theatre company," The HandleBards returned to Edinburgh in 2016 with two troupes, The Boys and The Girls. Each troupe was composed of four actors who carried set, props and costumes around the UK (and beyond) on bicycles to perform all-male Much Ado About Nothing and Richard III and all-female Romeo and Juliet and The Taming of the Shrew in unique venues from gardens to castles.

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Shakespeare Festival im Globe Neuss

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Since 1991 a recreation of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre has stood on the racecourse in Neuss, Germany. Each year it hosts a summer festival and the 2016 edition showcased productions from companies across Europe including several premieres, a puppet Tempest, and a one-woman Henry VIII. The festival also included a classical Shakespeare concert, a lecture by Patrick Spottiswoode of the London Globe, and a series of events exploring the idea of ‘Shakespeare and beyond’ which included a stage version of Woody Allen’s 1982 film A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy and an adaptation of Friedrich Schiller’s Maria Stuart. The majority of productions were presented in German; German surtitles were available for those presented in English or French.

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The Tempest/Stormen, Haugesund Teater

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The Tempest/Stormen          
Presented in Norwegian (nynorsk)    
Vibrandsøy (Nylandshuset), Haugesund, Norway
May 26-June 4, 2016

STORMEN
By William Shakespeare and Eirik Fauske
Haugesund Teater, Dramatikkens Hus

Cast:
Ariel/Sebastian: Sjur Marqvardsen
Gonzalo/Trinculo: Madalena Sousa Helly-Hansen
Prospero/Stephano: Ole Christian Gullvåg
Ferdinan/Antonio: Erik Bauck Bårdstu
Caliban/Alonzo: Janna Kari Kvinnesland
Miranda: Rikke Westerlund Lie

Creatives:
Playwrights: Eirik Fauske and William Shakespeare
Director: Erlend Samnøen
Production and Costume Design: Signe Becker
Lighting Design: Jesper Kongshaug
Composer & Sound Design: Magnus Børmark
Dramaturg: Mathilde Holdhus
Costume Consultant: Else Ciljan Jacobsen
Costume Consultant: Caroline Cecilie Evju
Stage: Mie Moe Gofjeld
Production Manager: Monika Bjerke
Secretary: Maria Festli Eriksen
Administration Manager: Torunn Skogland
Theatre Director: Erik Schøyen

For More Information:
https://www.haugesund-teater.no/stormen/

On Instagram:
@haugesundteater

On Twitter:
@haugesundteater                            

Selected Reviews and Materials:
https://www.nrk.no/kultur/anmeldelse_-_stormen_-1.12970024

http://www.dagbladet.no/2016/05/26/kultur/pluss/sceneanmeldelser/sceneanmeldelse/scene/44353325/

http://www.h-avis.no/arrangement/kultur/teater/slik-ser-du-stormen/s/5-62-265045

https://hnytt.no/2016/05/19/shakespeare-strander-pa-vibrandsoy/

http://www.h-avis.no/arrangement/fauske/haugesund/shakespeare-til-vibrandsoy/s/5-62-241609

Funding and Sponsorship:
The Norwegian Ministry of Culture (Kulturdepartementet)
Rogaland County Council (Rogaland fylkeskommune)
City of Haugesund (Haugesund kommune)