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Berlin, Day 17: Coriolanus (Shakespeare / Sanchez), Deutsches Theater Kammerspiele

By On 17/05/2013 · Leave a Comment

My final day in Berlin, my sixth show at the Deutsches Theater: finally Shakespeare. And relatively rarely performed Shakespeare, too: Coriolanus, in a new translation by Andres Marber that to my mind got more right than wrong – it certainly didn’t interfere with my enjoyment as much as the late Thomas Brasch’s famed version of [...]

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Berlin, Day 14: Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare / Eidinger), Schaubuehne

By On 13/05/2013 · Leave a Comment

Well, fuck.

This was a production I had looked forward to. The photos promised fun, if nothing else. It was supposed to be an unsentimental take on the play, putting desire above love. And Lars Eidinger is an exceptionally talented actor who has done great work in Shakespearean roles — his Hamlet in particular has [...]

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Berlin, Day 9: Kabale und Liebe (Schiller / Peymann), Berliner Ensemble

By On 11/05/2013 · Leave a Comment

German stagings of classics are often exciting because they draw attention to the challenges as well as the necessity of playing works of the past — they find an enormous source of energy in the friction between old and new rather than papering over the distance between text and performance with the tired blend of [...]

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People Being Stupid About Shakespeare VI

By On 21/04/2013 · 4 Comments

Ah, it’s been a while, but it’s time for another instalment in this sad chronicle of inane Shakespeareana.

This one is painful, I have to admit. It’s one thing to have actors spout nonsense, or to get to listen to a once-important historian with no established expertise in the subject; but [...]

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