How do you stage Shakespeare in the Age of Woke? Well, If you're Bell Shakespeare doing The Comedy of Errors, you emphasise gender and colour-blind casting and forfeit the play's easy laughs in favour of soft-focused confusion. We won’t find Shakespeare’s relevance by softening his edges, as did the Bell production, by implementing a sex-change and making Luciana a camp male
The founding artistic director of Chicago Shakespeare Theater might possibly direct a show here or there in retirement, but the production that opened Thursday night on Navy Pier is the end of an era.
Cajo Brendel discusses the Chinese revolution and conflicts between the Chinese Communist Party and the working class and peasantry, and conflicts within the Party itself.
The Comedy of Errors, performed by the legendary Royal Shakespeare Company, opened on Friday 22nd October 2021 at Nottingham’s Theatre Royal, and will run until Sunday 24th October. Hannah Walton-Hughes discusses the performance’s memorable moments, and how Shakespeare’s most underrated play lit up the stage with its colour, energy, and hyperbolic humour.