A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Play for the Nation
Review by Natalia Fantetti, BA English. Part of a nationwide tour, this production combined eighteen RSC professional actors and fourteen amateur theatre companies from around the UK. Read more...
Student reviews
In order to create an archive of the Shakespeare 400 activities that took place across all the partner organisations in 2016, a team of students at King's College London, from various disciplines and levels of study, reviewed as many of the events as possible.
Below are all of the reviews. Use the search box to find reviews
of a particular event.
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Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet (excerpts)
Review by Cara Rodrigues, MSc Neuroscience. The London Philharmonic Orchestra performed excerpts of Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet with a faithful execution; however the first half of the performance became lengthy and lacklustre, giving the feeling of an unwise choice in excerpts to open. Read more...
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Antony and Cleopatra
Review by Jiabao Sun, PhD candidate in Chinese Studies Can a Shakespeare play acted by one person? Cathy Naden did it in her version of Antony and Cleopatra in Forced Entertainment’s Complete Works: Table Top Shakespeare, which played in the Pit at the Barbican. Read more...
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Tabletop Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing
Review by Andreea Scridon, BA Classics and Comparative Literature. Anyone unfamiliar with Tabletop Shakespeare will be instantly struck by its unconventionality, and will continue to expect a twist back to the traditional. Read more...
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Tabletop Shakespeare: Hamlet
Review by Danny Shanahan, BA Comparative Literature. What one found when entering the Barbican’s basement theatre space to see Hamlet was not Benedict Cumberbatch. Nor did one find an elaborate set, with mechanical moving parts, wind and fog machines, or even a single solitary strobe light. Read more...
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Berlioz: Romeo & Juliet
Review by Lorena Brosset, Undergraduate Law. Gianandrea Noseda superbly executed Berlioz’ symphony, Romeo and Juliet. Read more...
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LPO: Macbeth
Review by Daniela Duhur, MA Middle Eastern Studies. The London Philharmonic Orchestra’s selection of Mendelssohn and Strauss’ Shakespeare inspired pieces, twinned with pieces by Stravinsky and Khachaturian was absolutely sublime. Read more...
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Mendelssohn’s 'A Midsummer Night’s Dream'
Review by Yavanna Vanyari, MA Modern Foreign Language Education Listening with your eyes closed to this lovely musical performance of 'A Midsummer Night’s Dream' by The London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) can playfully and musically transport you into a world of fairies, mischief, and adventure. LSO performs Mendelssohn’s piece flawlessly and with great finesse and skill, invoking the listener’s vivid imagination. Read more...
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Shakespeare's Sister - rehearsed reading
Review by Rebekah Baker, BSc Adult Nursing. Emma Whipday and Asia Obsborne’s performed reading of ‘Shakespeare’s sister’ transports its audience into the hustling, vibrant, wretched world of Shakespearean London Read more...
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Making Hamlet New
Review by Shehrazade Zafar-Arif, MA Shakespeare Studies. What do you do with a play like Hamlet, the most talked about and most performed play in the Shakespearean canon? Ann Thompson and Neil Taylor took on this challenge head-on in their talk entitled ‘Making Hamlet New’ during the King’s Shakespeare Festival. Read more...
