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.
Review by Aurora Ganz. In the era of communication, two main trends have emerged: one that tends to overprotect the intimate spheres of privacy, and the other, which constantly looks for new platform to expose publicly our daily life. Read more...
Review by Poppy Mostyn-Owen, BA English. The Arden Shakespeare’s new collection On Shakespeare’s Sonnets: A Poets' Celebration was launched in King’s College London’s Great Hall, which hosted ten of the most celebrated poets of the modern day. Read more...
Review by Anna Crisp, MA Cultural and Creative Industries. As the culmination of the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s ‘New Horizons Education and Communication’s 2015/16 Spring project, first year GCSE students from South London schools performed innovative responses to Sibelius’ The Tempest. Read more...
Review by Andrew Home, MA in Philosophy. For 25 years the London Symphony Orchestra has used classical music to educate and inspire with its LSO Discovery programme. For ‘Play On Shakespeare’ they have teamed up with the Barbican for a mixture of child friendly, pantomime-like performances Read more...
Review by Caroline Martin, MA Shakespeare Studies. Following Fiona Talkington’s introduction and a promise that ‘spring [would] be in the air’, conductor David Hill and the BBC Singers begin a performance that, although springy, dares to venture into the darker tones of 20th and 21st century Shakespearean incidental music. Read more...
Review by Cara Rodrigues, MSc Neuroscience, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience The Overture Shakespearian roared into existence a little after 6pm on Thursday 28th January 2016. The Southbank Sinfonia, having only come together a week before and comprised of eighteen different nationalities, brought St John’s Church thundering to life Read more...
Review by Caroline Martin, MA Shakespeare Studies. On 27 January, the London Philharmonic Orchestra made a spectacular Shakespeare400 debut, calling it the ‘centrepiece of the LPO’s 2015/2016 concert season’. Read more...
Review by Rowena Hawkins, MA Shakespeare Studies. BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Andrew Davis. Barbican Hall. Read more...
Review by Richard Foord, MA Renaissance Literature. Conductor Laureate Sir Andrew Davis takes on Berlioz’s complete ‘dramatic symphony’, a re-telling of Shakespeare’s indelible tragedy, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. Read more...
Review by Caroline Martin, MA Shakespeare Studies. James Gilchrist as tenor and Anna Tilbrook on piano is a delightful musical pairing, and they present themselves with elegant yet comfortable professionalism. Read more...
