Pop-Up Globe comes to Melbourne
Written by Claire Hansen in Performances and Productions | 13.07.2017
The Pop-up Globe will be popping up in Melbourne this year from September - November. Previously the theatre performed to audiences in Auckland, New Zealand.
The theatre is a replica of the second Globe, which was built and opened in 1614 after the previous Globe burnt down.
Seminar on Shakespeare Reloaded - 25 May, Sydney
Written by Shakespeare Reloaded in Teaching Activities | 10.05.2017
Members of the Shakespeare Reloaded team will be leading a seminar in Sydney later this month to share some of our initiatives and activities. Details below!
What: Exploring Shakespeare Reloaded - ACERN Seminar
Public lecture event: Teaching Shakespeare in the New Millennium - with Professor Liam Semler
Written by Shakespeare Reloaded in Teaching Activities | 02.05.2017
If you're in Sydney this week, you can head along to The Barker Institute to hear Shakespeare Reloaded's project leader, Professor Liam Semler, speak on 'Tea
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 film.
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.
Book Review: Shakespeare's Acts of Will by Gary Watt (Bloomsbury, 2016)
Written by Claire Hansen in Criticism and Research | 30.01.2017
Gary Watt, Shakespeare’s Acts of Will: Law, Testament and Properties of Performance, London: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2016.
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 Donnellan) wh
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,And the wolf behowls the moon,
Notes on Macbeth - Shakespeare's Globe, London
Written by Penny Gay in Performances and Productions | 08.09.2016
The production was not an entirely successful hybrid, in my opinion.
Silver Sounds and Moody Food Conference: Theatre Music and Musicians 1575 – 1642 City of York, United Kingdom
Written by Kathryn Parker in Conference | 14.08.2016
Today's guest blogger is Kathryn Parker. Kathryn is a PhD candidate at the University of Sydney.