Shakespeare

 Shakespeare has always held a very special place in my heart when it comes to the theatre. I can sit and watch his plays over and over without getting tired of the content and always marvelling at a new angle I’d never seen before. After four years of blogging I have built up quite the archive of reviews of his plays alone, and it seemed to make sense to bring them together in one space.

The below splits all of my reviews by the traditional genre classifications for ease of searching. You’ll spot a couple that haven’t got reviews – sadly they fell prey to the pressures of the reviewing schedule but I have put them into to remind myself that I have actually been to see them. I have also included a couple of Shakespeare interpretations that I have judged to be so in tune with the original that they deserve to be listed below.

 

Comedies

• A Midsummer Night’s Dream (As You Like It) – Dmitry Krymov Lab @ Barbican Centre, November 2014

• A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Handspring @ Barbican, April 2014 (not reviewed)

• All’s Well That Ends Well – Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford, August 2013

• Arden Creatures – Footfall Theatre @ Cockpit Theatre, August 2015 (As You Like It)

• Measure for Measure – Cheek By Jowl @ Barbican (not reviewed)

• The Merchant of Venice – Almeida Theatre, February 2015

 

Tragedies

• Coriolanus – Donmar Warehouse, January 2014 (not reviewed) 

• Cymbeline – Barbican Theatre, June 2012

• Hamlet – Young Vic (2011)

• Hamlet – National Theatre (2011)

• Hamlet – Thomas Ostermeier @ Barbican, December 2013 (not reviewed)

• Hamlet de los Andes – The Barbican Pit, October 2013

• Hamlet – Hammersmith Riverside Studios, June 2014

• Hamlet – English Repertory Theatre @ Cockpit Theatre, February 2015

• Hamlet – Barbican Theatre, August 2015 

• Julius Caesar – Donmar Warehouse, January 2013

• King Lear – Olivier @ National Theatre, January 2014

• Songs of Lear – Battersea Arts Centre, February 2015  (King Lear)

• Macbeth – Trafalgar Studios, April 2013

• Othello at National Theatre (not properly reviewed)

 

Histories

• Henry IV – Donmar Warehouse, October 2014

• Henry IV part I – BBC 2 / BBC HD, July 2012

• Henry IV part 2 – BBC 2 / BBC HD, July 2012

• Henry IV part 1 – RSC @ Barbican, December 2014 (not reviewed)

• Henry IV part 2 – RSC @ Barbican, December 2014 (not reviewed)

• Henry V – Noel Coward Theatre, November 2013

• Richard II – BBC 2 / BBC HD, June 2012

• Richard II – RSC @ Barbican, December 2014 (not reviewed)

• Richard III – Old Vic (2011)

• Richard III – Trafalgar Transformed, September 2014

 

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