Liverpool PlayhouseFrom a warehouse rave to a blistering brawl, this production is full of energy and turns Juliet into Julius but the tragedy fails to make an emotional impactThe sad truth …
Shakespeare Festival St. Louis looks ahead to next season as 2017 production opens.
Vision of repression works in Stratford production, but does framing device?
Nick Bagnall directs Shakespeare's tragedy with a twist
Rarely can Friar Laurence's line "Holy St Francis! What a change is here…" have been so loaded with meaning than in Nick
Nick Bagnall directs the latest show in the repertory company at Liverpool Everyman
The show opens to the sound of children's voices echoing dangerously throughout the theatre, whilst two characters give birth (and I mean this literally) to two black coffins, and therefore …
Shakespeare's star-crossed lovers are two gay footballers in this version of the play
It’s 2017, and still not one Premier League footballer is openly gay. Eyeing this glaring anachronism, the Union Theatre has optimistically turned
It's no less radical a reinterpretation - the two lovers are reconceived as gay footballers here - but where Andy Bewley's production really succeeds is in capturing the exultant highs of he…
Andy Bewley directs Joe Mackenzie's mostly disappointing but highly energetic adaptation of Shakespeare's tragic tale. Set in a universe where football is almost considered a religion,Romeo …
We’re only in April, but at the Globe, the Summer of Love is already bursting into life. Artistic director Emma Rice’s last outdoor season kicks off
Omidaze Productions' Shakespeare trilogy ends with an abridged retelling of Verona's two star-cross'd lovers. The strongest elements of the previous two productions,
Shakespeare in the Squares today announces full casting for its 2017 production of Romeo and Juliet which tours to London's squares and parks from 21 June to 13 July, with a press night at N…
A black cloth, torn and irregular, is suspended over the stage of Shakespeare's Globe " reminiscent of a foreboding spider's web. From the very beginning, this ominous material hangs over th…
The opening production in the 'Summer of Love' is Daniel Kramer's Romeo and Juliet and following Rice's lead, it is bold and brash, full of light and sound, and the kind of ferocious energy …
Shakespeare's Globe, LondonThe lovers alone convince in Daniel Kramer's bewildering productionEmma Rice's last season in charge of the Globe opens with loud defiance. Daniel Kramer's product…
By Mark Ludmon Kramer and the cast of Romeo and Juliet deserve praise for taking a well-trod story and giving it a fresh, interesting and exciting new slant. This post REVIEW: Romeo And Juli…
A production of Shakespeare's tragedy that's inventive, but exhausting
There's vigour and violence, comedy too, but Daniel Kramer's production disappoints"Everything in extremity". That announcement that the Capulet party is about to begin could just …
If there was controversy surrounding the use of light and sound at the Globe Theatre, the opening production of Emma Rice's second and final season as Artistic Director can only fuel the mul…
Shakespeare's Globe, LondonThis risible production butchers the language, turns Juliet into a squawking, pampered princess and makes everyone dance to the Village PeopleDaniel Kramer, direct…
BANG! and Whaam! Rosemary Waugh reviews the opening production in the Globe's Summer of Love. The post Review: Romeo and Juliet at The Globe appeared first on Exeunt Magazine.
Daniel Kramer's production which reinterprets the star-crossed lovers as modern-day teenagers and includes Village People's 'YMCA' as the main number at the Capulets&apos…