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(c) Ellie Kurttz

Interview with Mark Dornford-May, Isango Ensemble’s co-founder and artistic director. He explains the choices and challenges behind his company’s production of Venus & Adonis…

(c) Simon Kane 2012

Get beneath the skin of one of the world’s most potent theatre companies….

Isango Ensemble (c) Ellie Kurttz, 2012

Isango Ensemble have performed in London several times; hear more about their experience at the Globe….

(c) John Haynes 2012

Learn the importance of Shakespeare’s plays to Georgian theatre…

See The Two Gentlemen of Verona Australian première. Previously performed as part of Globe to Globe 2012…

Sîan-Estelle Petty (L) and Beverley Forbes (R) with Atlas panel of New Zealand Hangings. (c) Pete le May

Rare opportunity to see the New Zealand Hangings in close up….

Henry V in English by Shakespeare's Globe Theatre (c) John Haynes

The most direct connection between this production of Henry V and the other shows in the Globe to Globe season was the appearance on stage of a band of musicians who welcomed the audience and set the tone for the evening. …

Hamlet in Lithuanian by Meno Fortas (C) John Haynes

The publicity assured us that the director, Eimuntas Nekrošius, and the production were ‘legendary’ and that this Hamlet had toured the world to great acclaim since it was first performed in 1997…

Much Ado About nothing in French by Compagnie Hypermobile (C) Simon Annand

The French do not find me funny. Rather than take this as a sign that I am not, in fact, funny, I take it to mean that comedy does not translate easily…

Timon of Athens by Bremer Shakespeare Company, performed in German (c) Simon Annand

The Bremer Shakespeare Company’s production of Timon of Athens began with a fifteen minute pre-show in which the characters moved throughout the theatre; this opening emphasised an intense sense of ownership of the space…