Shakespeare’s Globe has announced its summer season 2019. The celebration and interrogation of ‘our sceptred isle’ through Shakespeare’s history plays continues with Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V, while elsewhere there is A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Ben Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair, and the return of 2018’s As You Like It.
REVIEW ROUND UP: Hamlet / As You Like it at Shakespeare’s Globe
The opening of the new season at the Shakespeare’s Globe pairs up Hamlet with As You Like It. Here’s what critics thought of the venture….
‘Exactly the kind of show needed to kickstart the new season’: AS YOU LIKE IT – Shakespeare’s Globe ★★★★
As You Like It is exactly the kind of show that was needed to help kickstart the new season at the recently rebranded Globe; bright & joyful and a real celebration of Shakespeare’s work (without being overly reverential).
‘The play has worked its magic again’: AS YOU LIKE IT – Shakespeare’s Globe ★★★★
Here, in Shakespeare’s, 400 years ago, actors ‘conjured’ and beguiled their audiences. And so here, too, in 2018, theatre and As You Like It has again worked its magic.
‘I call this leading from the front’: HAMLET – Shakespeare’s Globe ★★★
This production of Hamlet is a key moment in Michelle Terry’s new role as artistic director of the Globe, after the less than happy departure of Emma Rice. And power to her:
NEWS: Casting revealed for Michelle Terry’s gender-blind inaugural season at Shakespeare’s Globe
Shakespeare’s Globe has announced casting for Hamlet and As You Like It, the opening shows of Michelle Terry’s first season as artistic director.