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All about the Bard

A guide to modern Shakespeare performance on stage and screen: reviews, interviews, resources, and podcasts.

Alex Heeney / November 15, 2021

Olivia Vinall: ‘Sensitivity is a strength, not a weakness’

Olivia Vinall on bringing Shakespeare’s women into the 21st century, working on TV,m and her new film, A Beautiful Curse.

Seventh Row Editors / February 9, 2021

Ep. 78: Sundance 2021, part 1

This week we begin our discussion of the best and worst of Sundance 2021

Seventh Row Editors / November 2, 2019

Ep. 22: The King attempts to adapt Shakespeare’s Henry V

This is a cross-over episode with our Shakespeare podcast, 21st Folio, which dives deep into Netflix’s The King, a sort of adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry IV Part 1 & II and Henry V.

Noemi Berkowitz / August 22, 2019

Review: The Globe’s A Midsummer (Mid)night’s Dream

Combine Shakespeare’s Globe, Shakespeare’s most performed play, and a riotous group of groundlings (they heeded the BYOB on that RSVP) and you have all the ingredients for an entertaining night at the theatre.

Seana McKenna, Michelle Giroux, Scott Wentworth, Julius Caesar

Mary Angela Rowe / September 8, 2018

Et Tu, Bathos? Julius Caesar underwhelms at the Stratford Festival

Despite strong performances from a gender blind cast, Scott Wentworth’s production is a confusing and misguided adaptation.

Seventh Row Editors / August 22, 2018

Catch up with our 21st Folio podcast: Hamlet, Coriolanus, and Julius Caesar

We recently released three new podcast episodes about Shakespeare productions: The RSC’s 2016 production of Hamlet starring Paapa Essiedu, the Bridge Theatre’s 2018 Julius Caesar starring Ben Whishaw, and the Stratford Festival’s current production of Coriolanus directed by Robert Lepage. (Ralph Fiennes film of Coriolanus was one of our favourite films of the decade.) The […]

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