Shakespeare — Reviews — The Free Audience

Ubuntu's 'Hamlet' Is Epic, Crazed, And So Full Of Life That You'll Cry

You should run to the Ubuntu Theater Project’s Hamlet, because what you’ll see for the first two hours of this three-hour production is an incredibly clear, passionate, at times deranged, epic staging of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy. Its anger seems ripped from the streets and placed right on stage, but not in a didactic or direct way. Sometimes clarity is oblique and attacks us from behind. But what’s in front of us burns with an intensity so ridiculous that parts of it will make you cry.

ReviewsJohn WilkinsOctober 17, 2018'Hamlet', William Shakespeare, Ubuntu Theater Project, Shakespeare, Michale Socrates Moran, J Jha Comment

Cal Shakes goes epic with 'The War of the Roses'

What shines is how this flawed, four-hour journey into political mayhem hints at and kind of achieves some of the nervy, assaultive flair of continental auteurs such as Thomas Ostermeier or Ivo van Hove. I can’t remember a production with so much go-for-broke acting on the Cal Shakes stage, or really any of the major Bay Area stages.

ReviewsJohn WilkinsSeptember 5, 2018Shakespeare, Cal Shakes, California Shakespeare Company, Eric Ting, 'The War of the Roses', Henry VI plays, Richard IIIComment

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