Holger Syme
I teach Shakespeare and friends at the University of Toronto, where I'm also (as of July 2011) chair of the Department of English and Drama on the Mississauga campus. Needless to say, my writings here reflect neither the views of my department (and the people in it) nor those of my university. Hence "personal."
My posts here will likely deal with politics, academic issues, baseball, and possibly films.
Categories used most frequently by the blogger:
Theatre Play Reviews Shakespeare Academic Issues german theatre Toronto Theatre Politics theatre history ibsen Deutsches Theater Classical Drama Euripides 100 Years Ago Soulpepper schiller Hamlet King Lear berlin Theatertreffen Canadian theatre
Berlin Diary I: eScooters, Bake Off, Theatre History Heaven
8 November 2021
Two and a half years. It’s been almost a thousand days since I’ve last set foot on European soil, the longest I’ve been away from here in my entire life, and boy is it nice to...
13 April 2020
A lot has happened since my last attempt to catalogue what theatres in the German-speaking world are offering online while we’re all in self-isolation, so rather than update the...
Theatre in COVID Times: A Collection of Links and Things — I: Germany
27 March 2020
To celebrate, or mourn, World Theatre Day, I thought I’d start a list of theatres that are doing things online now to give us, and them, something to keep at least a memory...
Democracy is Heartless: A Plea
20 October 2019
I wrote this a week ago, and I am posting it here now in a slightly revised form in the hope that it might make a difference. This is an uninspiring plea. I want to urge you to vote...