by Oliver Ross | May 7, 2016 | Performances
Henry IV Part 1 | MUSC It may just be my newness to Australian Shakespeare, but it seems that the histories are staged far less than comedies or tragedies, whether it be due to a different cultural surrounding the strict social hierarchy, a weaker connection to the...
by Oliver Ross | May 4, 2016 | Performances
Coriolanus | Heartstring Theatre With two Melbourne Coriolanus productions in a single month and the recent successes of the Donmar production and Ralph Fiennes’ film, I wonder if the play’s period of rarity and obscurity is finally at its end. And powerful,...
by Oliver Ross | Apr 29, 2016 | Performances
Merry Wives of Windsor | Nothing But Roaring I only just managed to finish reading Merry Wives before the show itself, but even then I was familiar with urban legends that the play was written in a mere two weeks. And they play is distinctly different from many in the...
by Oliver Ross | Apr 29, 2016 | Performances
Romeo And Juliet | Bell Shakespeare Effortlessly maneuvering through bawdy comedy, intimacy and tragedy, Bell Shakespeare’s tragedy shows the sheer power of Australian Shakespeare when well founded and lovingly developed through the years in a powerful production that...
by Oliver Ross | Apr 21, 2016 | Blog
Autumn Shakespeare Season (VIC) When my creative project on Shakespeare last year spiraled into a love of the bard’s work, my first response was frustration, assuming that the only place to be able to frequently see the plays was thousands of kilometers away in the...
