The Tempest and The Merchant of Venice at the Shakespeare Company, Calgary

Production notice for the 2019 Shakespeare Company productions of The Tempest and The Merchant of Venice in Calgary. Described by Cliff Werier.

A Youthful Julius Caesar Experiment

A co-authored review of the Greater Victoria Shakespeare Festival's 2019 production of Julius Caesar.

Misrule and Melancholy: Stamford Shakespeare Company's Gender-Bending Twelfth Night

Actor Stephanie Collins reviews The Stamford Shakespeare Company's 2019 production of Twelfth Night, in which she played Fabia. The production's richly imagined Albanian-style Illyria created a vibrant aura of misrule. Collins's review includes material from her conversations with the director, designer, and other actors.

One-Click Russian Populism in Putinesque The Knight of the Burning Pestle

A review of the 2019 Cheek by Jowl and Moscow Pushkin Drama Theatre/Barbican co-production of The Knight of the Burning Pestle, at the Barbican.

The Play's the Thing Whererin We'll Catch the Conscience of the Times

Introduction to Scene 2018.1 with a summary of the contributions.

From Rigid Regency Sicilia to Musical Bohemia

A review of The Winter's Tale at the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company (March 2019).

All You Can Do Is Love It: As You Like it Meets the Bards of Liverpool

Review of the 2018 Bard on the Beach production of As You Like It.

So much for Bardolatry! (Drunken) Romeo and Juliet in Shit-faced Shakespeare

A review of the Atlanta production of Romeo and Juliet by the Shit-faced Shakespeare company. Argues that the performance "highlighted the populist nature of American Shakespearean appropriation and commodification and the intersection of highbrow and lowbrow culture in American society" and "explores these aspects of Shakespearean appropriation through engagement with the writings of Antonin Artaud, Guy Debord, and Lawrence Levine on the theatre of cruelty, the society of the spectacle, and highbrow and lowbrow culture, respectively."

Reprising ASL at ACT

A review of Romeo & Juliet at Seattle's A Contemporary Theatre featuring deaf actors in the roles of Friar Lawrence and Romeo.