Romeo e Giulietta, KHORA teatro & Teatro stabile d'Abruzzo

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Romeo e Giulietta, KHORA teatro & Teatro stabile d'Abruzzo

Romeo and Juliet, the Romantic tragedy par excellence, becomes a middle-class tragedy about generational clashes in Andrea Baracco’s vision. The tearing conflicts which run through the whole story show us an adult world shut in its own unmoving universe—its houses are like shop windows. The adults are just interested in keeping their own privileges and remain impassive to the uneasiness and the violent passions which overcome their sons and daughters. Baracco's reading of this classic tries to tell us about our contemporary world, hanging in the balance between fidelity to the original and his own interpretation of it characterized by a stylized theatrical language. 

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Ricardo III, Teatro Nacional D. Maria II

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Ricardo III, Teatro Nacional D. Maria II

Richard loves Richard

In 2015, two years after discovering the bones of Richard III under the tarmac of a car park in the city of Leiceste, we unearthed in the D. Maria II the eponymous piece of William Shakespeare, which relates the most Machiavellian ascent to the throne. In November we offer you the opportunity to (re)discover this work, distinguished with a 'Globo de Ouro' award for best theatre show of 2015 and the SPA award for best actor for Miguel Moreira.

With the artistic direction of Tónan Quito, the show oscillates between contempt and fascination for this cunning being. And so he proceeds from death to death, from lying to lying. Are we all Richard?

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Rómeó és Júlia, University of Kaposvár, Gyula Shakespeare Festival

/ Castle Stage/

Romeo and Juliet/Rómeó és Júlia       
Presented in Hungarian          
Várszínpad /Castle Stage, Gyula, Hungary, as part of the Gyula Shakespeare Festival
July 17, 2016

A production of the University of Kaposvár
Director: Vidnyánszky Attila, Jr.
Cast: Benedek Dániel, Dér Mária, Dunai Csenge, Helvaci Ersan Dávid, Herczegh Péter, Horváth Julianna, Kónya Renáta, Mészáros Martin, Nagy Balázs, Nagy Márk, Szabó Nikolett, Szép Domán, Ticz András, Varga Bori, Osztályvezető tanár, Uray Péter

http://shakespearefesztival.hu/?p=5361

Hamm-let, Gyula Shakespeare Festival    

/ Chamber Hall/

Hamm-let       
Presented in Italian     
Kamaraterem/Chamber Hall, Gyula, Hungary, as part of the Gyula Shakespeare Festival
July 14, 2016

Piccola Compagnia della Magnolia
Director: Giorgia Cerruti
Cast:
Gertrude: Giorgia Cerruti
Ophelia: Federica Carra
Hamm-Let: Davide Giglio

http://shakespearefesztival.hu/?p=5290          

BOB, Gin & Tonic Productions

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“Gin & Tonic Productions embarks on its first European Tour with a brand new Shakespearean tragi-comedy: BOB - the play that Shakespeare would have written, could have written but never got round to writing. The eclectic mix of farce, cabaret and satire, live jazz and Kanye West is certain to make you slap your knee and guffaw like Elizabeth I watching traditional Shakespeare comedies.  Scandinavia is in crisis! While Sweden is hit by an apocalyptic incident, Ikea’s manuals having dramatically biodegraded, the ambitious Lady Bob takes over Finland by an unscrupulous coup d’etat.  Will her naive husband Bob, now puppet ruler of Finland, manage to save Scandinavia from his wicked wife and her devoted squad of murderous nuns and finally become a hero worthy of the bard?” –Gin & Tonic Productions, website description

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As You Like It, Folksy Theatre

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As You Like It, Folksy Theatre

Shakespeare's romantic comedy was brought to life at the Bristol Shakespeare Festival by Folksy Theatre, a company who tour the UK with open-air and indoor theatre productions using music, interactive performance and puppetry to make their productions fun and accessible for audiences of all ages and backgrounds.   

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A staged reading of Macbeth, Teatro Nacional D. Maria II

/ Teatro Nacional D. Maria II/
A staged reading of Macbeth, Teatro Nacional D. Maria II

In this latest staged reading of Shakespeare’s text, steeped in theatrical superstitions, the maelstrom was chosen as a symbol of imbalance, violence, cruelty, of the pain of irrationality that the greed for power never fails to inflict.

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Macbeth – táncprodukció, Gyula Shakespeare Festival 

/ Chamber Hall/

“The eternal lesson of the tragedy of Macbeth is that a misconceived sense of vocation, a pathological ambition and a false ruling spirit, create destructive figures with distorted spirits. Both in the chronicles of history and these days, people appear who have seized power by force, deceit or by craftiness. When we suffer because of amateur and bad leaders above us, Shakespeare gives us comforting justice with the tragedy of Macbeth. The Shakespeare work, which originally comes from the Medieval, Celtic Holinshed chronicle, is permeated by the mystical tone and mysterious atmosphere of legends full of violent deeds and haunting sense of guilt. The world of superstitions and visions, the mystery of the Shakespeare work and the richness of motifs and symbols provide excellent raw material for dance and the art of movement.”

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​Hamlet and Japan: Visions of Ophelia

/ Shakespeare's Globe/

The first serious Japanese translation of ‘To be or not to be’ performed alongside a comic version – in English and in Japanese – written in 1874. The evening cumulates in the Kabuki-inspired Visions of Ophelia performed by Japanese actress Aki Isoda, who toured her one-woman show worldwide.     

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Le Off (Festival d'Avignon)   

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“The Festival d’Avignon celebrated its 70th edition in 2016 and while there were no major Shakespearean productions on the main programme, they dominated the programme of the Festival Off d’Avignon (the fringe festival). The only playwright whose works were performed and adapted more was Molière. From puppet shows to experimental takes on the tragedies, Le Off offered a wide range of Shakespeare for all ages.”

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