Tag: Shakespeare
Celebrating Shakespeare’s Birthday with some queer & gender productions of his work online
To celebrate William Shakespeare’s April 26th birthday (he’s not quite 500 yet!) here are some great queer and gender productions of some of his finest plays available to view online Brit queer director Phyllida Lloyd mounted an all-female trilogy of plays comprising Julius Caesar, Henry IV and The Tempest playing at London’s Donmar Warehouse…
Macbeth (of the Oppressed)
There are seemingly endless ways to play any of Shakespeare’s great classic dramas and NY gets to see yet another interpretation of his Scottish tragedy Macbeth this Fall. Fab Marquee Productions are presenting Macbeth (of the Oppressed) at The 14th Street Y which will feature two real-life husbands in the starring roles, and with most of…
Flawless Fassbinder Slays as Macbeth
If William Shakespeare was still around to pick up his royalty checks he would have made more than a wee fortune from Macbeth alone. It’s been filmed almost 70 times already, with three versions being released this year alone. Out of all of these, the one due to hit US screens next month could be…
Private Romeo : a tale of two queer star crossed lovers
Over a weekend eight male high school cadets are left behind when the rest of the McKinley Military Academy go away on an Exercise and they are ordered to carry on with their studies regardless. In the English Literature Class they are studying ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and the two young men reading the leads begin to take…
