Celebrity studies, Shakespeare and Hamlet
Written by Claire Hansen in Performances and Productions | 06.08.2015
You may have heard about the current clamour for tickets to a Barbican production of Hamlet featuring Benedict Cumberbatch.
Today is International Women's Day. In keeping with this, we've selected a few archive photographs of Shakespeare's most famous female characters.
It's not a surprise to see Shakespeare (and some of his contemporaries) featuring in the line-up of several Australian theatre companies this year. So we've put together a list of some of the Shakespeare productions on offer for 2015.
There are some intriguing new adaptations of Shakespeare coming out at the moment.
Have you seen Bell Shakespeare's production of Henry V?
ABC is showing a documentary on a production of The Tempest by Melbourne's St Kilda drop-in centre:
You may already be familiar with Tom E. Lewis' portrayal of King Lear in the indigenous adaptation, The Shadow King.