Shakespeare

Malvolio’s Fantasy

Malvolio’s Fantasy

★★★☆☆ Tentative

Zuzabella Productions’ Malvolio’s Fantasy at theSpace @ Surgeons Hall is an adaptation of Shakespeare that is at its best when it is furthest from its source.

Aug 18 2024 | By | Reply More
Polishing Shakespeare

Polishing Shakespeare

★★☆☆☆ To speak and purpose not

Twilight Theatre Company’s Polishing Shakespeare dramatizes imagined meetings between a dotcom billionaire, the artistic director of an “esteemed American theatre company,” and the playwright they are attempting to commission to translate Shakespeare’s works into modern English.

Aug 15 2024 | By | Reply More
Henry V

Henry V

★★★☆☆ Contrarious

Henry V  from Massachusetts-based Ghost Light Players is a dynamic, physical, ensemble-centred production of Shakespeare’s sprawling history that aims to impress upon its audience the “bloody cost of war”.

Aug 15 2024 | By | Reply More
Macbeth & Dunsinane

Macbeth & Dunsinane

Macbeth: ★★★☆☆ Speedy
Dunsinane: ★★★★☆ Bloody

A Necessary Cat have done it again – bringing a powerful double helping of a Shakespeare starter and Shakespeare-adjacent main course to the Fringe in which the whole is better the sum of its parts.

Aug 14 2024 | By | Reply More
The Whirligig of Time

The Whirligig of Time

★★★★★ Malvolio Often Appears Innocent

Malevolent, malicious, malcontent: Malvolio. But is he? In a tour-de-force by solo actor Robin Leetham, Tortive Theatre’s The Whirligig of Time questions the traditional perception of Malvolio as the antagonist of Twelfth Night, and allows him to tell his version of the story.

Aug 10 2024 | By | Reply More
Macbeth: Sleep No More

Macbeth: Sleep No More

★★★☆☆ Well Spoken

Reducing Shakespeare’s cast of forty-plus characters to a company of four female performers, Shadow Road Productions brings Macbeth: Sleep No More back to the Fringe in an adaptation that encapsulates the essence of the Scottish Play.

Aug 7 2024 | By | Reply More
Shakespeare adjacent pairings

Shakespeare adjacent pairings

It’s the Bard, Bill, just not as you know him

Following Necessary Cat’s brilliant pairing of Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead at the Fringe of 2023, the Edinburgh-based company is back with Macbeth and David Greig’s Dunsinane.

Aug 5 2024 | By | Reply More
Macbeth (an undoing)

Macbeth (an undoing)

★★★★☆ Compelling

Zinnie Harris’s much-garlanded adaptation of Shakespeare, Macbeth (an undoing), returns to the Lyceum subtly tweaked and all the better for it.

May 15 2024 | By | Reply More
Drama Desk nods for Harris’ Macbeth update

Drama Desk nods for Harris’ Macbeth update

Four Drama Desk Award noms for Macbeth (an undoing)

Macbeth (an undoing) returns to the Lyceum on Tuesday 14 May 2024 after a successful international tour in which it picked up four nominations from the prestigious Drama Desk Awards from the New York critics.

Apr 30 2024 | By | Reply More
The Taming of the Shrew

The Taming of the Shrew

★★★★☆ Lively

Edinburgh University Shakespeare Company’s production of The Taming of the Shrew at the Pleasance is a witty and intelligent take on an endlessly troubling play.

Feb 6 2024 | By | Reply More