A Midsummer Night's Dream, by William Shakespeare Shakespeare's Globe, July 22 ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ starts with a begrudging betrothal and two sets of forbidden lovers- and ends in three weddings. That is a lot of turnaround in two hours’ traffic on the stage, but Emma Rice’s incredible production at Shakespeare’s Globe is prepared for it: the theatre is ready for a wedding, and those reception party staples, huge round tables draped in white caterer’s linen are set throughout the space, on the stage, even in the groundling’s pit. These are echoed by dozens of big, spherical balloons filling the stage and sky. Festoons of marigolds, a rainbow trim, and a sitar player let us know th
Today's post is a longer one: my goal in this blog is to not only offer a look into what I am doing in London, but also create longer, full appreciations of specific works to share with my students and community. The subject of today's post, Shakespeare's 'Richard III' at the Almeida Theatre, has been captured as an HD broadcast film: for a cinema near you, check http://live.almeida.co.uk/ for updated listings. RICHARD III, by William Shakespeare Almeida Theatre July 20, 2016 The Almeida Theatre’s ‘Richard III’ starts at a grave, the newly discovered burial site of Richard III, under a parking lot in Leicester. The bones are carefully exhumed by lab technicians in white jumps
This fall, I'll be heading off to London for a sabbatical...and keeping notes here on the theatre I am seeing, the places I find, and people I encounter while abroad, in order to send information back to my students and community at Montgomery County Community College. You can follow along at my twitter handle @whistlertweet, and I'll be amassing posts and more under #MC3THA. Okay then - here we go...next stop, the shores of the Thames
