Edinburgh Fringe Review: A Midsummer Night's Dream
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 pol…
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 pol…
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 …
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…
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 modern vers…
To explain the quality that elevates The Madness of King Lear into the sphere of superlative interdisciplinary theatre, we must look to Federico GarcÃa Lorca: this transformed Lear burns …
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, Bligh …
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 famil…
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 short …
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 original …