A fresh perspective on the classic Henry V, concluding Hal’s journey from errant prince to conquering king – an action-packed end to the trilogy.
NEWS: Shakespeare’s Globe announces details of summer season
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.
‘Generously places the focus firmly on plot and character’: OTHELLO – Shakespeare’s Globe
Claire van Kampen’s decision to eschew gimmick/concept is a bold statement in a production of Othello that generously places the focus firmly on plot and character, and pays dividends for it.
‘A bold, zippy, lively affair’: OTHELLO – Shakespeare’s Globe ★★★
Overall, then, Van Kampen’s production of Othello is a bold, zippy, lively affair that slips neatly into today’s sensibilities, underlining its message of the destructiveness of jealousy, the violent potential of unfulfilled ambition and the abuse of women.
NEWS: André Holland & Mark Rylance are joined by Sheila Atim in Othello at Shakespeare’s Globe
Shakespeare’s Globe has announced full casting for Othello, directed by Claire van Kampen, opening on Friday 20 July.
NEWS: André Holland & Mark Rylance are joined by Sheila Atim in Othello at Shakespeare’s Globe
Shakespeare’s Globe has announced full casting for Othello, directed by Claire van Kampen, opening on Friday 20 July.
Photos & podcast: With playwright Elinor Cook & the Pilgrims company
Critic Matt Trueman described Elinor Cook‘s Pilgrims, about a pair of young mountain climbers, as the “peak of playwriting”. I got to talk mountain climbing, metaphors and much more with this whipsmart George Devine Award-winning playwright at last night’s Q&A after the performance of Pilgrims at London’s Yard Theatre.
PILGRIMS – The Yard Theatre
The metaphor of mountain climbing resonates with the crisis of masculinity in new sex-war drama.