Theater review: Portland Center Stage offers taut, complex 'Cymbeline' - OregonLive.com
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 OregonLive.com | Theater review: Portland Center Stage offers taut, complex 'Cymbeline' OregonLive.com By Richard Wattenberg, Special to The Oregonian View full sizePatrick WeishampelScott Coopwood plays Cymbeline and Kelley Curran is Imogen in "Shakespeare's Amazing Cymbeline," playing through April 8 at Portland Center Stage. “Cymbeline” isn't one of ... |
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'Making of a King' an engrossing, 6-hour event that's 'worth the effort' - The Daily Tar Heel
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'Making of a King' an engrossing, 6-hour event that's 'worth the effort' The Daily Tar Heel But a weak spot lies in the play's combat scenes. Though punctuated with the appropriate grunts and bellows, the brawls are less than convincing. As a whole, the play is nuanced and particular. Shakespeare's detailed character portraits are ... |
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“The Play's the Thing” - Kenyon Collegian
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“The Play's the Thing” Kenyon Collegian ... pulling various nobles and friends into a tangle of deception, distrust and retribution that culminates, in typical tragic Shakespearean fashion, in the deaths of most characters. While Hamlet is often considered Shakespeare's finest play, ... Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' returns to Kenyon |
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Shakespeare in black & white - Philippine Star
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Shakespeare in black & white Philippine Star The sets are awesome sheer giant nets that keep the characters and sets in a haze at the beginning, a tapestry of cobweb-like fabrics and metal, and two descending “chandeliers.” The costumes are an integral part of Padilla's recreation of the play. |
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Spiro, Barnett in Globe casts - Variety
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Spiro, Barnett in Globe casts Variety By David Benedict Double Olivier-winner Samantha Spiro and Tony-nommed Samuel Barnett ("The History Boys") will make their debuts at London's Shakespeare's Globe this summer, with Barnett to star in two productions with apparent designs on a commercial ... |
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Shakespeare send-up - Melbourne Leader
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 Melbourne Leader | Shakespeare send-up Melbourne Leader Brendan O'Connor and Hugh Sexton get into character ahead of the radical new adaptation of Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream - Behind the Scenes. Pic: GLENN DANIELS LEAVE your sensibilities at the door, says Glenn Elston, director of the play A ... |
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Tedious tale of two couples - Philadelphia Inquirer
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Tedious tale of two couples Philadelphia Inquirer ... this plot drives many of Shakespeare's plays. Marans acknowledges his debt by alluding to Macbeth on multiple occasions and quoting Henry IV at length. But when the Bard borrowed, he repaid with sonorous language and achingly real characters. |
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Ralph Fiennes directs modern take on 'Coriolanus' - San Francisco Chronicle
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 San Francisco Examiner | Ralph Fiennes directs modern take on 'Coriolanus' San Francisco Chronicle It seems to be about the world we're in," says Fiennes, who is taking a few days off from playing yet another Shakespeare character, Prospero, in the Theatre Royal Haymarket's production of "The Tempest" to travel with his movie to the Toronto ... Film Review | Coriolanus 'Coriolanus' a fine example of the Bard on film |
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Long Wharf's MACBETH 1969 is Much Toil and Trouble through February 12 - Broadway World
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 Selby Times | Long Wharf's MACBETH 1969 is Much Toil and Trouble through February 12 Broadway World Aside from moving the play to a PTSD ward and jumping the action about a millennia (the real Macbeth died in 1057, resuscitated by Shakespeare in the early 1600s), the adaptation jettisons over a half-dozen characters. Exit Malcolm and Donalbain, ... A Modern 'Macbeth,' in Sight, Not Sound |
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Harrisburg Shakespeare Co Presents Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - Broadway World
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Harrisburg Shakespeare Co Presents Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Broadway World Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is the tale of Hamlet as told from the worm's-eye view of the bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters in Shakespeare's play. In Tom Stoppard's best-known work, this Shakespearean Laurel and ... |
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