★★★★☆ Shakespeare, more so than any other playwright, has a talent for transcending time and place in his writing. His characters are so real, they continue to come alive on the modern stage, and allow twenty-first century audiences to see their own world reflected back in a play written 400 years ago.
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★★★☆☆ In many ways, this is a good play. The dialogue is sharp. The actors are given nowhere to hide – both are on stage and facing the audience for the length of the performance; there are few props and the scenery is a simple office setting.
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★★★★☆ Shakespeare’s Globe on Tour are spending a few weeks in July in the Bodleian Quad, giving Oxford a dose of alfresco Shakespeare. . . The audience is drawn into the story inexorably, and by the end of the play, it’s hard to believe that you haven’t just spent an evening under a Venetian sky.
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★★★★☆ The timelessness of Shakespeare’s work has often resulted in efforts to modernise and contextualise his plays in different ways, and with varying results. This English Touring Theatre production of Othello is an example of how this can be done elegantly: with modern set and costume designs, but preserving the language and tone of the original play to great effect.
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It’s a fairly new tradition, but now, when June comes to Oxford, I’m looking forward to the...
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