Performances and Productions

The visions that appear in Taymor's A Midsummer Night's Dream

Written by Claire Hansen in Performances and Productions | 03.04.2017

In her opening remarks prefacing the screening of her theatrical production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, director Julie Taymor spoke of a new kind of digital experience – the magic of theatre captured on f

All about Richard: Review of Bell Shakespeare’s Richard III

Written by Claire Hansen in Performances and Productions | 05.03.2017

When Richard, Duke of Gloucester is playing the part of a pious Christian who wishes to remain in prayer and shirk his kingly duties – all part of his scheming to nab the crown, of course – he persuades those onstage too well. Led by Buckingham, they begin to turn away.

A performance of publics and power in Measure for Measure

Written by Claire Hansen in Performances and Productions | 11.01.2017

It is the connectivity of the people who populate Cheek by Jowl and Pushkin Theatre’s production of Measure for Measure (directed by Declan Donnell

Following darkness like a dream: STC’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Written by Claire Hansen in Performances and Productions | 01.10.2016

In Puck’s penultimate speech of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, he bridges the dancing frivolities of the Athenian and fairy courts with a dark vision of graveyards and hauntings:

Now the hungry lion roars,

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