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Monday, August 20, 2012

Edinburgh Fringe Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Chloe Stopa-Hunt

Some of Shakespeare’s comedies beg for dystopian settings, but A Midsummer Night’s Dream is not one of them. Stagings of the problem plays frequently dwell on their moral ambivalence and…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:11PM

Thursday, August 9, 2012

Edinburgh Fringe Review: Rémy by Chloe Stopa-Hunt

Paradise in The Vault is located in the basement of Augustine United Church, and its austere, cell-like intimacy affords an irreproachably apt setting to Rémy, a one-woman show written and …

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:54PM

Edinburgh Fringe Review: Shakespeare’s Queens: She-Wolves and Serpents by Chloe Stopa-Hunt

Shakespeare wrote many queens, and not least among them is Cleopatra, the Queen of Egypt. Even the unromantic and battle-hardened Enobarbus cannot deny her charm in Antony and Cleopatra, and…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:28AM

Edinburgh Fringe Review: Werther’s Sorrows by Chloe Stopa-Hunt

Time Zone Theatre has brought two productions to this year’s Fringe, both adaptations, and with some common ground. One is Oscar Wilde’s Salome; the other is Werther’s Sorrows, a moder…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:48AM

Edinburgh Fringe Review: The Madness of King Lear by Chloe Stopa-Hunt

To explain the quality that elevates The Madness of King Lear into the sphere of superlative interdisciplinary theatre, we must look to Federico García Lorca: this transformed Lear burns an…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:25AM

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Edinburgh Fringe Review: A One-Man Hamlet by Chloe Stopa-Hunt

A One-Man Hamlet stands or falls by its lone performer, Will Bligh – the man behind Berlin-based production company, Living Art. In tackling the most famous part in the Western canon, Blig…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:28PM

Edinburgh Fringe Review: Macbeth Unsexed by Chloe Stopa-Hunt

Macbeth Unsexed! is a creative re-imagining of Shakespeare’s Scottish play, devised in part by the ensemble of sixth-formers from St Mary’s Calne who also perform it. Most of Macbeth’s…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:04PM

Sunday, August 5, 2012

Edinburgh Fringe Review: The Happy Prince by Chloe Stopa-Hunt

There can be no more charming and radiant a show at the Fringe this year than English Cabaret’s The Happy Prince. Adapted by Sue Casson – who also plays the Chorus – from the original …

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:24AM

Thursday, August 2, 2012

Edinburgh Fringe Review: Lady M by Chloe Stopa-Hunt

Lady M is a dynamic Shakespearean re-interpretation aimed at rehabilitating Lady Macbeth’s serving-woman – who, as the play resentfully underlines, appears in only one scene of the origi…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:05PM

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