Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are two minor characters in Shakespeare’s play Hamlet. They found fame in 1966 at the hands of Tom Stoppard, then a very ...
Werner Schwab was an extraordinary figure in the German-speaking theatre world. During his brief 4-year-long career, he proved himself to be a true vi...
The universality of William Shakespeare’s plays was already recognized by his contemporaries. Ben Johnson believed that the Bard’s poetry is “not of a...
In William Shakespeare’s As You Like It, the Forest of Arden offers an escape from stiff courtly life into enchanting chaos. It is a fascinating place...
Imagine you have been asked to sit on a jury that deliberates the case of a teenager who allegedly murdered his father. The boy lives in the slums. He...
When the doors to the auditorium open to let the audience in, the performance seems to have already begun. On a rotating platform, in the centre of ev...
In 1818 Mary Shelley published Frankenstein, a novel that tells the story of a young ambitious scientist, Victor Frankenstein, who created a terrifyin...
