What’s on
Celebrating its fifth year, Sydney Shakespeare Festival is one of Sydney’s summer event highlights.
‘Sitting on a rug under the stars with the backdrop of the Anzac Bridge watching actors bring a play to life with nothing but a small stage and their voices is what theatre is all about.’ ALTERNATIVE MEDIA GROUP 10/01/12
On alternate evenings:
Hamlet & The Taming of the Shrew
8pm – 10:30pm
5 Jan – 12 Feb 2012
Performance dates for each play
Bicentennial Park, Glebe Foreshore
Book tickets online 24 hours
$29 full, $23 concession, $17 high school students
FREE for children 12 years and under, people 65 years and over
and people with disabilities
Hamlet
8pm – 10:30pm (including a 15 minute interval)
Jan 5, 6, 14, 15, 19, 20, 28, 29, Feb 2, 3, 11, 12
‘…a clear and pacy storytelling of a great plot, and a sometimes thrilling urgency…’ STAGE WHISPERS 09/01/12
‘…a convincingly angst-ridden Hamlet.’ WEEKEND NOTES 09/01/12
In Shakespeare’s tragic masterpiece, Prince Hamlet mourns both his father’s death and his mother, Queen Gertrude’s remarriage to Claudius, his father’s brother. The ghost of Hamlet’s father appears to him and tells him that Claudius poisoned him and Hamlet must enact revenge on him. The multiple themes of indecision, revenge and retribution, deception, ambition, loyalty and fate ensure that Hamlet endures as an object of universal identification. In his difficult struggle to somehow act within a corrupt world and yet maintain his moral integrity, Hamlet ultimately reflects the fate of all human beings.
The Taming of the Shrew
8pm – 10:30pm (including a 15 minute interval)
Jan 7, 8, 12, 13, 21, 22, 26, 27, Feb 4, 5, 9, 10
‘…an accessible, inspired, energetic reading.’ CURTAIN CALL 10/01/12
‘…tight, believable characters that generated lots of laughs.’ STAGE WHISPERS 10/01/12
He said. She said. The never ending battle of the sexes has always made for popular entertainment and is usually the central conflict of any story. Sometimes seen as a light and slapstick farce, a testament of male cruelty to women, a champion of modern feminist writing, a vehicle for virtuoso husband/wife teams, or just a really great night of theatre, The Taming of the Shrew has just about something for everyone. The play begins with a trick played by a nobleman on the drunkard Christopher Sly who arranges for an acting troupe to perform a play and so a farcical and unreal play within the play called The Taming of the Shrew ensues.
