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.

Reviews for Performance Show all

• RSC Production of 'Henry V'

  posted by KateS on Jan. 17, 2016

  Review by Amy Lidster, PhD Candidate, Department of English Gregory Doran’s RSC production of Henry V, part of the King & Country cycle, achieves something significant: it manages to distinguish itself from the myriad of recent productions of the play. By heightening its metatheatrical aspects and inventively utilising the audience, the production offers a captivating presentation of a less assured Henry, subsumed within the processes of writing and re-writing history. Read more...

  

• RSC King & Country: Henry IV Parts 1 and 2

  posted by gferraro on Jan. 16, 2016

  Review by Dr. Aidan Elliott: Department of English. The Guardian’s theatre critic Michael Billington has described these two plays as Shakespeare’s greatest, and this latest interpretation by Greg Doran demonstrates why. Read more...

  

• RSC King & Country: Richard II

  posted by gferraro on Jan. 15, 2016

  Review by Romola Nuttall, first year PhD in English Literature. Historical issues at heart of Richard II made brilliantly clear by Gregory Doran in this return to the Barbican for Shakespeare’s quarter-centenary Read more...