Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Reconstructions of the Globe: A Retrospective
- ‘Useful in the Year 1999’: William Poel and Shakespeare’s ‘Build of Stage’
- Reconstructing the Globe: Constructing Ourselves
- From Liturgy to the Globe: the Changing Concept of Space
- The Arithmetic of Memory: Shakespeare’s Theatre and the National Past
- Maximal and Minimal Texts: Shakespeare v. the Globe
- William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet: Everything’s Nice in America?
- Which is the Jew that Shakespeare Knew?: Shylock on the Elizabethan Stage
- A Little Touch of Harry in the Light: Henry V at the New Globe
- Gulls, Cony-Catchers and Cozeners: Twelfth Night and the Elizabethan Underworld
- The Globe, the Court and Measure for Measure
- Macbeth and the Antic Round
- Macbeth / Umabatha: Global Shakespeare in a Post-Colonial Market
- When All is True: Law, History and Problems of Knowledge in Henry VIII
- ‘All which it inherit’: Shakespeare, Globes and Global Media
- ‘Delicious traffick’: Alterity and Exchange on Early Modern Stages
- The 1998 Globe Season
- Shakespeare Performances in England, 1998
- Professional Shakespeare Productions in the British Isles January-December 1997
- The Year's Contributions to Shakespeare Studies 1 Critical Studies
- 2 Shakespeare’s Life, Times, and Stage
- 3 Editions and Textual Studies
- Books Received
- Index
Professional Shakespeare Productions in the British Isles January-December 1997
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2007
- Frontmatter
- Reconstructions of the Globe: A Retrospective
- ‘Useful in the Year 1999’: William Poel and Shakespeare’s ‘Build of Stage’
- Reconstructing the Globe: Constructing Ourselves
- From Liturgy to the Globe: the Changing Concept of Space
- The Arithmetic of Memory: Shakespeare’s Theatre and the National Past
- Maximal and Minimal Texts: Shakespeare v. the Globe
- William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet: Everything’s Nice in America?
- Which is the Jew that Shakespeare Knew?: Shylock on the Elizabethan Stage
- A Little Touch of Harry in the Light: Henry V at the New Globe
- Gulls, Cony-Catchers and Cozeners: Twelfth Night and the Elizabethan Underworld
- The Globe, the Court and Measure for Measure
- Macbeth and the Antic Round
- Macbeth / Umabatha: Global Shakespeare in a Post-Colonial Market
- When All is True: Law, History and Problems of Knowledge in Henry VIII
- ‘All which it inherit’: Shakespeare, Globes and Global Media
- ‘Delicious traffick’: Alterity and Exchange on Early Modern Stages
- The 1998 Globe Season
- Shakespeare Performances in England, 1998
- Professional Shakespeare Productions in the British Isles January-December 1997
- The Year's Contributions to Shakespeare Studies 1 Critical Studies
- 2 Shakespeare’s Life, Times, and Stage
- 3 Editions and Textual Studies
- Books Received
- Index
Summary
Most of the productions listed are by professional or semi-professional (pro/am) companies. Productions originating in 1996 or earlier have only been included if there is new information. Details are mainly taken from newspaper reviews held in the Birmingham Shakespeare Library.
ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL
The New Shakespeare Company, the Open Air
Theatre, Regent's Park: June 1997—
Director: Helena Kaut-Howson
Designer: Claire Lyth
Set against the background of the Bosnia war.
The Oxford Stage Company, tour: August 1997
Director: Irina Brook
Set in a North African country and played as though by strolling players.
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA
The Bridewell Theatre Company, London:
April 1997-
Director: Carol Metcalfe
Designer: Bridget Kimak
The set consisted of white hangings, lit red for the Egypt scenes.
The Lincoln Shakespeare Company: November 1997
Director: Rob Smith
A pro/am production
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- Information
- Shakespeare Survey , pp. 254 - 267Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1999