The Tempest Rowena Hawkins 05/08/2016 There is no great storm at the beginning of Anna Augustynowicz’s production of The Tempest for Polish company Teatr Współezesny w Szezecinie. Instead,...
HamletMachine Rowena Hawkins 04/08/2016 We wanted to do Müller’s play, explains Gil Alon (in Hebrew), before slipping into the role of Hamlet, “but Shakespeare’s wouldn’t let us go”. So Tmun...
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Rowena Hawkins 02/08/2016 A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a play about lovers and fairies. We get swept up in its romance, its magic, and the madcap subplot in which Bottom is tra...
Julius Caesar. Spared Parts Rowena Hawkins 02/08/2016 When it was first staged in 1997, Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio’s Julius Caesar. Spared Parts was celebrated as a radical take on one of Shakespeare’s mor...
Pigs and Dogs Rowena Hawkins 24/07/2016 Caryl Churchill’s latest Royal Court offering Pigs and Dogs is, quite literally, a short, sharp shock. It’s short in that it lasts just under a quarte...
Unreachable Rowena Hawkins 10/07/2016 Unreachable opens with a harrowing scene in which a mother kills her baby. Natasha (Tamara Lawrance) acts the monologue in near darkness with impressi...
Henry V Rowena Hawkins 26/06/2016 There was a sense of camaraderie in the air at the performance of Henry V at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre that fell on the eve of the European Refer...
Midsummer Night’s Dream Rowena Hawkins 18/05/2016 Any production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream lives and dies by its rude Mechanicals and their farcical amateur production of ‘Pyramus and...
A Kingdom For A Stage Rowena Hawkins 30/04/2016 In A Kingdom for a Stage, an ambitious new play penned by Tony Diggle to celebrate 400 years since Shakespeare’s death, the Bard finds himself in mode...
Hamlet, Who’s There? Rowena Hawkins 27/04/2016 Hamlet performed in just ninety minutes by a cast of six looks, on paper, to be an act of utter madness. But though this be madness, yet there is meth...
