Sunday, June 30, 2013

AS YOU LIKE IT AT STRATFORD-ON-AVON - A PRODUCTION FOR THE 21ST CENTURY?

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  Reviewed by James Karas In the epilogue to As You Like It, Rosalind tells us that good wine does not need to be enhanced by a bus...
Friday, June 28, 2013

HAMLET IN SUPERB PRODUCTION AND FENCING AT STRATFORD-UPON-AVON

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Reviewed by James Karas Many productions have a memorable tag or theme that sticks in the mind years after we have seen them. The curr...
Wednesday, June 26, 2013

OTHELLO AS RIVETTING MODERN DRAMA FROM THE NATIONAL THEATRE

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  ***** (out of five) Reviewed by James Karas The National Theatre has produced Othello as a modern war drama that is full o...
Sunday, June 23, 2013

PEACE IN OUR TIME: A COMEDY MAKES BRAVE ATTEMPT TO GIVE LIFE TO SHAW’S GENEVA

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  Reviewed by James Karas Bernard Shaw wrote Geneva in 1938 and revised it a number of times. You can gauge the popularity and pe...
Friday, June 21, 2013

LADY WINDERMERE’S FAN PRODUCTION FAILS TO CAPTURE POSHLY ACCENTED WORLD

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  Reviewed by James Karas Lady Windermere’s Fan may not be Oscar Wilde’s best play but there is no shortage of wit, epigrams an...
Thursday, June 20, 2013

TRIFLES – ONLY AT THE SHAW FESTIVAL EH? TWO ONE-ACT PLAYS THAT YOU HAVE NEVER SEEN BEFORE

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Reviewed by James Karas Trifles is the title of a one-act play by Susan Glaspell and chances are you have not heard of the play or ...
Tuesday, June 18, 2013

FIDDLER ON THE ROOF – A TRIUMPH AT STRATFORD

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Scott Wentworth (centre) as Tevye with members of the company. Photo by Cylla von Tiedemann. Reviewed by James Karas Fiddler on the ...