Academy Award-winner Chloé Zhao brings her gift for evocative storytelling with her adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s lauded novel Hamnet, as she takes audiences into the mind and soul of William Shakespeare and the journey through loss, heartbreak and creativity that he undergoes alongside his wide Judith (Jessie Buckley) in the wake of their son’s death […]
Auckland Theatre Company’s ‘Romeo & Juliet’ is a Fever Dream of Passion, Eroticism, and Tragedy
Love, death, beauty, ecstasy, heartbreak — Auckland Theatre Company’s audacious new production of Romeo & Juliet under the direction of Benjamin Kilby-Henson is a supernova of emotion, and it explodes with vibrant intensity across the boards of the ASB Waterfront Theatre. This is no dusty retread of the Bard’s most iconic tragedy. Instead, Kilby-Henson and […]
