Bardfilm
Shakespeare in Love directed by John Madden
© 2006 John Murphy Bard-love received an unexpected shot-in-the-arm with the 1998...
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999) directed by Michael Hoffman
Starring Kevin Kline, Michelle Pfeiffer, Rupert Everett, David Strathairn, Stanley...
Twelfth Night (1999) directed by Tim Supple
Shakespeare, the Remix Twelfth Night, or What You Will. Or What Tim Supple Will....
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Bard Northwest
OSF 2010 Season opens February 19th!
In this sometimes dreary third week of February, Clan Murphy is all a-quiver that...
A Glance Back at OSF 2009
Equivocation, photo by Jenny Graham Notwithstanding the gorgeous production of Death...
Roland Emmerich's upcoming De Vere-was-the-Bard movie vs. Bill Cain's Equivocation and the-Bard (Will)-was-a-Catholic stage play
photo by Jenny Graham I know, I know, the Identity Question can be a real pain in...
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Bard at Large
New Bard-novel: The Final Act of Mr Shakespeare by Robert Winder
I’ve been chattering a bit about Bill Cain’s play, Equivocation, of late (here and here), and it turns out that a new novel has hyst been published dealing with similar themes; namely, how a fictionalized Bard might have handled an onerous commission with dangerous political overtones, and what his real opinions might have been on said dangerous... [Read more of this review]
To stage high concept, or not to stage high concept?
A bit of "director-driven, concept" Shakespeare that worked pretty well. That is the question posed by NYC-based theatre critic David Cote in a blog article published by the Guardian UK entitled, “Most Stagings of Shakespeare Don’t Go Far Enough”. Quoth Cote, after taking Wall Street Journal theatre critic Terry Teachout... [Read more of this review]
Was the Bard in Rome during the "lost years"?
And speaking of the was-Will-a-Catholic question, news is breaking all over the ‘net this morning that the English College in Rome has uncovered guestbook signatures which may have been scribbled by Himself. Here’s from the London Times: According to Father Andrew Headon, vice-rector of the college and organiser of the exhibition, the names... [Read more of this review]
Online Database of Shakespeare on Film, Video & TV
An item of great interest to Shakespeare-on-film buffs: The British Universities Film and Video Council (BUFVC) is developing an international database of Shakespeare on Film, Television and Radio. Here’s their initial write-up: In 2005 the BUFVC, through its association with the Open University, was the recipient of a three-year Resource Enhancement... [Read more of this review]
Hamlet's Understudy
Every avid theatregoer knows the pain, sooner or later, of having bought tickets to some performance specifically because of a certain actor, only to discover, upon arrival, that the actor has gotten sick or been injured, and the role is to be played by the Understudy. I’ve never (personally) had that happen with a Hamlet yet, though I confess... [Read more of this review]
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