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Julius Caesar | Essential Theatre
With an extremely strong all-female ensemble of six actors, Essential Theatre's Julius Caesar manages to be both subjective and direct, presenting a dramatic night of loyalty, uncertainty, betrayal and ambition. Following on from Heartstring's Coriolanus earlier in...
Romeo and Juliet | Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company
With an all-star cast from both television and the Shakespearean stage, Kenneth Branagh and Rob Ashford’s Romeo and Juliet is an evocative exploration of the violent undercurrents masked beneath daily life bursting free. With a director and three lead actors coming...
Macbeth | wit incorporated
In a play in which one of the most famous lines is 'unsex me here,' Jennifer Innes' gender swapped interpretation recreates the bloody world of Macbeth where women battle for their country and their crown as their husbands persuade them to betrayal in whispers. It...
A Midsummer Night’s Dream | Newman College
In the middle of this confusing yet constantly freezing Melbourne winter, Matilda Wraight and Newman College’s production pulls the audience into a warmer world of magic and dark, secret summers. With more naturalistic styles dominating, it’s interesting to see a more...
Othello | Bell Shakespeare
Othello is a play disturbing in cruelty and otherness that is both archaic and chillingly contemporary. Peter Evan's touring production blurs the dichotomy of the play - seen and unseen, puppeteer and pawn - into a tragedy of isolation and impulse from which no...
Macbeth | The Melbourne Company of Players
Born out of a collaboration between The Melbourne Company of Players and the Melbourne Shakespeare Society, Macbeth is a gripping production, with stripped back yet effective visuals placing the focus directly on the passion, physicality and sheer power of the play....
The Winter’s Tale | Class Act Theatre
I’ve always found The Winter’s Tale fascinating, as in Shakespeare’s final years he intermingles comedy with tragedy, switches revenge for redemption and becomes increasingly drawn to a world of magic. It’s an ambitious and often difficult blend, and one that Stephen Lee’s vision expertly brings to life in a evening of suspicion, love and atonement.
The Tragedy of Coriolanus | Burning House
Along with the growing popularity of the downfall of Coriolanus having some interesting implications of the current social climate, it allows for a thrilling, complex and terrifyingly contemporary tragedy to finally see the light of day. While the play is infamously divisive, having being used as both fascist and communist propaganda, Robert Johnson’s production sticks closer to the text in exploring both the virtuous and the despicable within all characters in a war between public influence and jealous privacy, tyranny and political game-play.
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