Jan Klata’s adaptation of King Lear is a memorable one. The director transports Shakespeare’s drama to the Vatican, where Lear is the Pope and his dau...
Krzysztof Garbaczewski’s adaptation of The Tempest is daring: it questions what is the best way to perform Shakespeare, and challenges sexual and gend...
Sturua’s Julius Caesar sees the action of the play transferred from Ancient Rome to gangster-era America, with the senators dressed in suits and fedor...
Hamlet is usually considered to be Shakespeare’s longest play, with the full text taking about five hours to perform. It’s not unusual, then, for dire...
This production has an extremely promising opening: in total darkness, two skull-shaped lanterns converse in gravelly, ghostly voices, using the grave...
The Tiger Lillies – described on Wikipedia as the forefathers of Brechtian Punk Cabaret – were never going to have a conventional take on Hamlet. The ...
These three monologues, taken from Bennett’s written-for-television series, have many things in common. They are stories of isolation, of loneliness, ...
In the splendour of the Venetian opera house, La Fenice, Elena Barbalich’s production of Antonio Vivaldi’s Juditha Triumphans is a stupendous triumph....
To enter the crypt where this play is staged, the audience must first push past obstacles in the entrance - although they are light and easily-moved, ...
Poignant, funny, serious, naive, sophisticated... Every Brilliant Thing is an outstanding piece of theatre. The venue, a pop-up theatre that is assemb...
