As You Like It, Shanghai Theatre Academy

/ Spotlites/

“From award-winning director Nicholas Barter comes a 1920s Chinese inspired version of Shakespeare’s much loved comedy performed by the Shanghai Theatre Academy. This production is a must-see and will reinvigorate one of Shakespeare’s best plays with traditional Chinese elements, including stunning colourful Chinese costumes and classical music played on the vertical bamboo flute.” --description from Fringe programme               

Part of the official programme commemorating the 400th year anniversary of the deaths of Tang Xianzu and William Shakespeare.      

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Into the Shadows of Shakespeare, Creative Me

/ theSpace/

“Join the Beijing-based Chinese student actors for a wondrous morning of Shakespearian themed shadow theatre. Violet is sent to live in a provincial English town with relatives who own a small playhouse, specializing in productions of Shakespeare's works. She delights in sitting in the wings and watching the productions play out in shadows upon the back stage walls. She discovers that after the live productions end… the shadows play on. Thus begins Violet's magical journey through the fantastical realms populated by the timeless characters found in the works of William Shakespeare.” --description from Fringe Programme

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Othello's Guilt, WOH Productions Limited

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Othello's Guilt, WOH Productions Limited

In a prison that looks very much like Hell, suspended in space and time, Othello is bound to endlessly atone for the murder of Desdemona. Delirious and obsessed, he becomes one with his nemesis, Iago. Othello's Guilt paints a dystopian picture of jealousy, personal anguish and self-destruction, using exclusively Shakespeare's words.

Roberto Cavosi's new adaptation highlights the relationship between good and evil - themes which inhabit us all. Cavosi’s work absorbs and transforms the psychological intensity at the heart of modern and contemporary theatre, from Pirandello to Beckett. With Othello’s Guilt, the company wishes to reach a multicultural audience who are willing to be challenged by an original and innovatory approach to Shakespeare.

After its premiere (in Italian) at the Teatro Antico in Segesta (Sicily) in August, this 55 minute monologue marks the return to The Rose of actor Marco Gambino, who has recently received international acclaim after appearing in popular Italian television series Squadra Antimafia and Young Montalbano.

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Macbeth, Baela Productions/Fife Youth Arts

/ The Edinburgh Academy /

“Set in 1953 against the backdrop of Queen Elizabeth's coronation, Lady Macbeth is presented as a picture-perfect housewife. However, behind closed suburbia doors she rebels against convention; successfully manipulating and driving her husband towards treason.” --description from Fringe programme     

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Blood Will Have Blood, ImmerCity

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“After Banquo's murder, his son Fleance is adrift in Macbeth's brutal new Scotland. He/the audience are taken under the wing of a strange woman from the heath. Interactive, audio-immersive show.” --description from Fringe programme.

Blood Will Have Blood was an audio-immersive companion to the company's 2015 show Fire Burn: The Tragedy of Macbeth which returned to the Fringe in 2016 and played in rep.

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Admirable Fooling or What You Will, Little Shakespeare Theatre School

/ The Royal Scots Club/

"Forsooth! An interactive playback theatre with admirable clowning and fooling, partying and pranks, masque and revels based on Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, or What You Will. Wit and humour for thine family in its entirety” --description from Fringe Programme.

Admirable Fooling or What You Will was created as the culmination of a summer camp for 6-18 year olds which ran from August 1-13, 2016 at the Theatre School's base in Musselburgh (Edinburgh). The children also devised a free street performance.  

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A Midsummer Night's Dream, Edinburgh Graduate Theatre Group

/ The Royal Scots Club/

"Hermia loves Lysander. Her dad prefers Demetrius, Helena loves Demetrius, Demetrius lovers Hermia. Shake and stir in royal nuptials, feisty fairies, a suspect donkey and a live band for Shakespeare's much-loved mischievous magical cocktail.” --description from the Fringe Programme

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At War With Love, Chiaroscuro Theatre Company

/ Greenside @ Nicolson Square/

“At War With Love sets Shakespeare's sonnets against the turbulent backdrop of war. This strongly physical production explores the depths of their themes of love, passion, jealousy, loss and regret.” --description from Fringe programme  

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Remember Me: Horatio's Hamlet, Somesuch Theatre

/ Greenside @ Nicolson Square/

“A cast of two attempt to answer one of theatre's greatest questions: Who was Hamlet? A grieving Horatio tries to unlock the mystery of his friend's devastating death by hiring an actor to tell his story.” --description from the Fringe Programme

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Broken, No Pictures Please / PBH's Free Fringe

/ Serenity Café/

“Boy meeteth girl. Boy loseth girl. Boy bareth soul. Set in London and centred on the end of a relationship, Broken fuses Shakespeare with modern dialogue and is an expressionistic satire on the highs and lows of falling in, and inevitably out, of love.” (description from Fringe Programme)

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Shakespeare on Love, American High School Theatre Festival

/ SpaceTriplex/

Shakespeare on Love
Presented in English   
SpaceTriplex, Edinburgh, as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe
6th-10th August 2016

American High School Theatre Festival                                                                                 

Selected Review:
BroadwayBaby review (3 stars): "The performance has merit, and those wanting a bit of light relief in a busy Fringe schedule should definitely consider Shakespeare on Love as a nice introduction to some of the Bard’s best plays."
http://broadwaybaby.com/shows/shakespeare-on-love/716589                      

Little Shakespeare, Spotlites

/ Spotlites/

Performed by children from three of China’s best schools, Beijing Shijia Primary School, Chongqing Bashu Rhythm Drama Club, and Chongqing Foreign Language School, aged 10-15.                           

Part of the official programme commemorating the 400th year anniversary of the deaths of Tang Xianzu and William Shakespeare.

“Shakespeare with a twist: three scenes from three of his greatest plays brilliantly performed by the children of three of China's top schools known for their high standard of education. This is Little Shakespeare but big fun.” --description from Fringe Festival programme.

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A Fool's Paradise: 30 Shakespeare Scenes in 60 Minutes

/ Venue 13/
A Fool's Paradise: 30 Shakespeare Scenes in 60 Minutes

“Four actors race to perform Shakespeare's greatest hits. You, the audience, play Shakespearean BINGO to choose what scene comes next and keep the actors on their toes. Call out favorites such as Romeo & Juliet's balcony bliss, Lady Macbeth's blood cleansing sleepwalk or one of our more “liberally interpreted” alternatives. 30 scenes will be performed in 60 minutes...or someone gets a pie in the face!” (description from company website)

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