Not everything is always black and white. Facts about an event can be manipulated to suit personal agendas and racism can flow in many directions. In an inner city secondary school, teacher Amanda steps in to break up a fight between students. In the process, she is assaulted though is reluctant to report perpetrator Jason…
What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas goes the saying, and in Rupert Goold’s exuberant transplanting of the neon-lit Nevada Strip instead of the original Venetian backdrop, the dark dealings played out in the Merchant of Venice seem ideal to remain behind the casino doors. Except Goold chooses to play the racism, romantic fantasy and…
A Midsummer Night’s Dream is arguably Shakespeare’s most adaptable play. Dream’s magical and mythical elements lend themselves to imaginative staging and, in the hands of one of the country’s most imaginative theatre companies, Headlong, the pairing seems ideal. Director Natalie Abrahami has chosen to set the action against an early 1950s Hollywood film set where…
Given the glut of Danish princes theatres have experienced recently, it is difficult not to compare one Hamlet against another. Obviously each production is a stand alone product and therefore any comparison is perhaps unfair. The latest entry into the Hamlet market is John Simm, taking to the Sheffield Crucible stage in his first Shakespearian…