Review: Isolde & Tristan (Sport for Jove & Old Fitzroy Theatre)
Playwright Esther Vilar spins the chivalric romance of Tristan and Isolde into a provocative, playful drama of colonisation and resistance.
Playwright Esther Vilar spins the chivalric romance of Tristan and Isolde into a provocative, playful drama of colonisation and resistance.
Birthed as a COVID-era film project, Damien Ryan's Venus & Adonis truly finds its feet on the stage.
Ahead of his staging of Venus & Adonis, director Damien Ryan explores the influence of a remarkable talent on William Shakespeare.
Debra Oswald’s comedy drama about the ugly side of an artistic temperament given a fresh spin in an expertly judged production.
Damien Ryan’s As You Like It is a wonderfully absurd and entertaining night of Shakespeare, including new original music.
Without the First Folio, we wouldn't have Shakespeare as we know him, Freud's Oedipus complex and Marx's Theory of Capitalism.
Written when Shakespeare was on a roll, As You Like It is the play that keeps on giving. And director Damien Ryan should know.
This exuberant, lo-fi production, adapted for the stage by Hilary Bell, with her father John Bell as Scrooge, is a delight.
“We’re bringing space travel, balloons, shepherds, ninjas, great love, cups of tea, ghosts, cowboys, samosas, mysteries.... and theatre magic," says AD Lee Lewis of next year's season.
The 10-play season includes three world premieres, a David Williamson comedy, a Tennessee Williams masterpiece and a 2021 Tony Award-nominated play.
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Billed as a film about a play about a poem, Sport for Jove's Venus & Adonis is a luscious, visual feast and a remarkable achievement.
An impressive adaptation, but Taming of the Shrew leaves its promise to “rescue this classic love story from the clutches of controversy” unfulfilled.