Peter Kirwan
The Bardathon is Dr Peter Kirwan's Shakespeare review blog. Originally set up in 2006 to chronicle the RSC Complete Works Festival, The Bardathon chronicles new productions of early modern plays around the UK, as well as related films, documentaries, books and events. The blog aims to combine the analysis of academic criticism with the quick format of the journalistic review.
Categories used most frequently by the blogger:
Theatre review Shakespeare RSC Globe Film review Events RST Macbeth Sam Wanamaker Swan film Broadway Middleton Winter's Tale Hamlet Richard III Romeo and Juliet Marlowe National Theatre Midsummer Night's Dream
27 August 2022
In my biggest life-change to date, I’ve recently emigrated from the UK to the little town of Staunton, Virginia. After eleven happy years at the University of Nottingham, I’m thrilled...
A Winter’s Tale (Scene Individible) @ The Door, Birmingham Repertory Theatre
10 June 2022
It’s perhaps inevitable that a company based in Stratford-upon-Avon – a town plagued with living statues – would end up producing a play with two of them. Scene Individible’s...
& Juliet @ Shaftesbury Theatre
22 May 2022
As jukebox musicals go, & Juliet should have had an easy audience in me. Not only does Max Martin’s over-punctuated back catalogue speak pretty precisely to my teenage years...
Henry VIII @ Shakespeare’s Globe
21 May 2022
This review is of a preview performance. Amy Hodge’s Henry VIII is the first major mounting of Shakespeare and Fletcher’s play since Six: The Musical, in an era that has also seen...