All posts tagged "Shakespeare"
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1.2KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Hamlet Is Not OK, by R.A. Spratt
YOUNG ADULT: Funny, shocking and brilliant: from bestselling author R. A. Spratt, a whip-smart take on Shakespearean moral dilemmas.
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1.1KArtsInterview: Jethro Pidd – Tackling The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare
2022 marks the fiftieth anniversary of The Stirling Players, based at The Stirling Community Theatre. After a successful year of performances, their final show in their year of celebration is none other than the side-splittingly funny The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare (Abridged). This production has been playing at the Stirling Community Theatre for the […]
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1.6KArtsA special summer season of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night is headed to Carrick Hill
Following a sold-out 2021 season, Shakespeare South Australia returns with Twelfth Night at iconic Carrick Hill for a festive summer run on January 4-8 2022
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3.1KAdelaide FestivalFestival Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream: An Opera by Benjamin Britten
This production of Britten’s operatic adaptation of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is like no other.
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1.5KAdelaide FringeFringe Review: The Man Who Wrote Shakespeare
One of the greatest mysteries of modern history is solved!
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1.2KLatestTheatre Review: Shakespeare in the Bar
Director Tony Knight has skilfully arranged a series of Shakespeare’s most beloved soliloquies, sonnets, and songs into five themes (Wooing, Surmises, Ambition, Melancholy and Madness, and Death).
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3.0KAdelaide FringeFringe Review: Shit-Faced Shakespeare: Hamlet
Ladies and gentlefolk of the Adelaide Fringe, come gather ye’ round for another year of the hit comedy, Shit-Faced Shakespeare, where, as in ye olde’ times, the drunk is the centre of comedic attention, but this time, they’re centre stage!
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924Film & TVFilm Review: All is True
The imagining of Shakespeare's retirement years, written by Ben Elton.
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1.5KAdelaide FringeFringe Review: Shit-Faced Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
There are many ways to make a Shakespeare play a little different, getting one of the cast drunk before hand is a little out there. So many things could go wrong, but they don’t!
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1.7KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: A Stage Full of Shakespeare Stories, by Angela McAllister
An illustrated book introducing some of Shakespeare's best plays in modern language and in a simplified, abridged format to help young readers understand the bones of the story.
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1.6KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Sounds Appealing, by David Crystal
Debate over correct pronunciation has existed for centuries but, as English becomes more and more of a global language of communication, the need to be intelligible to others is ever-more important.
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1.0KAdelaide FestivalFestival Review: Kings of War
This is gripping theatre without a momentary lag or missed beat.
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936Adelaide FringeFringe Review: Gratiano
OK, so Bassanio’s been killed – unlawfully killed, at that. The Chief Inspector is grilling that loudmouth drunk, Gratiano. Used to be a bit of a bovver-boy in his day; kick you as soon as look at you. Indignant, Gratiano asks the cop, “Do I look like a murderer?”
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628Adelaide FringeFringe Review: When There’s No Strength In Men
When acknowledging the Shakespeare’s great works, his male characters are normally front and centre, but not in this show as his strong, smart and resilient female characters take centre stage.
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1.2KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Forever Horatio: An Actor’s Life, by Edmund Pegge
Edmund Pegge is one of those actors you've probably never heard of, but you're sure to know his face from an active film and television career that spans decades.
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703Books & LiteratureBook Review: You Can’t Make Me Go To Witch School! by Em Lynas
The comical story of Daisy, an 11yo who is forced to go to Toadspit Towers by her grandmother (a witch) even though Daisy insists she's an actress, not a witch.
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897Books & LiteratureBook Review: Venetian Voices, by Christine V Courtney
Through verse and imagery, take take a stroll over bridges and under cloisters, following Venetian locals and visitors as they pass through centuries.
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1.2KArtsAudiobook Review: King Lear, by Big Finish
An all new audio adaptation of Shakespeare's famous tragedy stage play, King Lear. The second in a series of new adaptations by Big Finish Productions.
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1.0KBooks & LiteratureAudiobook Review: Hamlet, by Big Finish
Shakespeare’s greatest play, Hamlet. comes to life in an original, full-cast audio production with a bonus roundtable discussion following the play.
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981Film & TVFilm/Ballet Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
A filmed stage production of the Paris Opera Ballet Company, retelling one of the Bard’s classic comedies of love, fairies and magic in the woods.
